EU imposes its first ever cyber sanctions, hitting six people and three organizations including GRU, for involvement in WannaCry, NotPetya, and other attacks
Place of birth: Shandong Province, China Federal Computer Week : FCW Insider: July 31 Francesco Guarascio / Reuters : EU sanctions Russian intelligence, North Korean, Chinese firms over alleged cybera...
Profile and behind-the-scenes story of Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, who helped stop the WannaCry attack and pled guilty to selling the Kronos banking malware
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. Tweets: @malwaretechblog , @a_greenberg , @dakacki , @issielapowsky , @wired , ...
US Treasury sanctions three North Korean state-sponsored hacking groups, Lazarus, Bluenoroff, and Andarial; Lazarus was responsible for WannaCry ransomware
the same hackers who allegedly launched WannaCry and behind the Sony hacks. https://home.treasury.gov/... https://twitter.com/... Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : US Treasury sanctions three North Kore...
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release for writing and selling the Kronos banking malware
Marcus Hutchins, the malware researcher who became known as an “accidental hero” for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 …
Two years on, WannaCry remains in thousands of networks globally, despite available patches; researcher: “kill switch” stopped ~60M WannaCry detonations in June
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Microsoft warns of major WannaCry-like Windows security exploit affecting older versions like XP that could spread malware via RDS protocol, releases patches
Windows 10 and Windows 8 are safe — Microsoft is warning users of older versions of Windows to urgently apply a Windows Update today …
WSJ found ~$90M in criminal proceeds from fraud or hacks like WannaCry, laundered via 46 crypto exchanges; US-based ShapeShift processed $9M in suspect funds
Journal investigation documents suspicious trades through venture capital-backed ShapeShift — A North Korean agent …
A look at how software for a new manufacturing tool, which was not checked to be malware-free, got WannaCry into TSMC's fabs and shut them down for several days
Anton Shilov / AnandTech :
Profile of cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins, who helped stop WannaCry and has a pending trial in the US for allegedly selling the Kronos banking trojan
Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine : Tweets: @thesignoffive , @nymag , @lorenzofb , @z_everson , and @mllelicious Tweets: @thesignoffive : “The FBI took everything from me,” Hutchins said, “My job, ...
In op-ed, Trump's homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert says North Korea was behind the WannaCry ransomware cyberattack in May
The massive cyberattack cost billions and put lives at risk. Pyongyang will be held accountable. — Cybersecurity isn't easy, but simple principles still apply.