Emergent threats, trends, and news annotated by some of the most well known and respected experts in the industry.
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| Hold North Korea Accountable for WannaCry—And the NSA, Too The Trump administration has attributed the WannaCry ransomware attack to North Korea. While there is evidence North Korea put the WannaCry attack together some in the cybersecurity community put part of the blame on the U.S. government also. The stockpiling and then losing of stockpiled vulnerabilities made WannaCry possible. Microsoft Office Docs New Vessel for Loki Malware Microsoft Office scriptlets are being used to spread Loki malware. The attack is not using the known macros and shellcode methods. Security researchers are still working on mitigating this attack. |
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| User ‘Gross Negligence’ Leaves Hundreds of Lexmark Printers Open to Attack Lexmark printers have been found to be open to the public internet. These printers can be used for multiple malicious activities. Login credentials are not required to control these printers, users should setup a required login and passwords for these printers. |
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| New Database Botnet Leveraged for Bitcoin Mining As cryptocurrencies become more valuable it is not a surprise that attackers are using other people’s resources to mine for them. Database servers are being attacked and compromised for cryptocurrency mining. |
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The Creator of Signal Has a Plan to Fix Cryptocurrency Is cryptocurrency here to stay? We will see what happens going forward. Moxie Marlinspike is working on the of the problems with cryptocurrency, usability. Making cryptocurrency simple to use while secure could be part of cryptocurrency being around in the future. |