…but a North Korean threat actor group had and they hijacked the update process to inject malware into the “protected” systems. Researchers at Avast believe the group is the North Korean APT group Kimsuki. The malware installs GuptiMiner – a crypto-miner – and disables several other security precautions if they …
Because It’s Friday – Mixing Valentine’s Day and Viruses!
Like an aging film star the computer virus has a number of birthdays – here is one of them: Computer viruses are celebrating their 40th birthday (well, 54th, really) – SANS Internet Storm Center This article also includes the fact that the computer virus is dead! Although you still need …
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Where do they hide that malware…
…in a game of course. Shall We Play a Game? – SANS Internet Storm Center There are hundreds of thousands of these free simple games available out there on the internet but some of them are not quite what you think they are. I am not against fun – especially …
Has Sellafield been hacked?
The UK Government denies that Sellafield, the nuclear research and processing site located on the Cumbria coast, has been infected with malware since 2015. Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China | The Guardian The fears are that some of the mist confidential information stored on …
Defence in Depth
One of the things that came out of the conference I attended on Tuesday in London, was defence in depth, combatting the ways in which the threat actors have expanded their attack vectors and tactics to evade various modern technical and human defences. The message we should all take from …
