SecureWorld News
JANUARY 23, 2021
Unfortunately, a number of the laptops sent out were discovered to have malware. English students' laptops infected with malware. They say the malware appears to have been contacting Russian servers and has been found in a handful of schools. Reports on the malware have indicated that the Windows laptops contained Gamarue.I,
CTOvision
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Alphabet’s Chronicle has now launched VirusTotal Enterprise, a business version of its free offering that, it says, increases malware search speed by 100 times. Google owner Alphabet in January unveiled Chronicle as the latest offering with VirusTotal malware scanning tool that Google bought in 2012.
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Network World
JANUARY 10, 2017
A cybersabotage program that wiped data from 30,000 computers at Saudi Arabia's national oil company in 2012 has returned and is able to target server-hosted virtual desktops. The malware, known as Shamoon or Disttrack, is part of a family of destructive programs known as disk wipers.
Network World
JANUARY 24, 2017
The disk-wiping Shamoon malware, which was used in attacks that destroyed data on 35,000 computers at Saudi Aramco in 2012, is back; the Shamoon variant prompted Saudi Arabia to issue a warning on Monday. An alert from the telecoms authority, seen by Reuters, warned all organizations to be on the lookout for the variant Shamoon 2.
Scott Lowe
MARCH 15, 2024
Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Think Linux doesn’t have malware? And here’s another example of malware that is targeting Linux (along with Windows). (TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.) Kevin Houston previews the first AMD-powered Cisco UCS blade server.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
According to a news release from the DOJ , in 2012, Muhammad Fahd, a citizen of Pakistan and Grenada, contacted an AT&T employee via Facebook and offered the employee “significant sums of money” to help him secretly unlock AT&T phones, freeing the customers from any installment agreement payments and from AT&T’s service.
Network World
MAY 17, 2019
CVE-2019-0708 is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction, meaning any future malware could self-propagate from one vulnerable machine to another. It does not impact Microsoft’s newest operating systems; Windows 8 through 10 and Windows Server 2012 through 2019 are not affected.
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