The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a report on Monday that accused North Korean state-controlled hackers of sharing their shadowy banking and money-laundering networks with scam artists and drug traffickers across Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
A study from the U.K. Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) found North Korea using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to circumvent international sanctions. The authors warned Pyongyang’s cybercrime network could “become a sustained security challenge” as it seeks more untraceable methods of laundering money and keeping its business secret from international regulators.
The Pentagon’s new cyber strategy prioritizes defense from cyber attacks and expands military authority to prevent them, according to a summary unveiled Tuesday.
The Justice Department has charged a computer programmer working on behalf of the North Korean government with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, along with the massive WannaCry ransomware attack last year and an $81 million theft from a bank in Bangladesh.
The Boeing corporation admitted on Wednesday that a “small number of systems” were affected by a “limited intrusion of malware,” but denounced what it called “overstated and inaccurate” reports that the malware attack was much larger.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is publicly blaming North Korea for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of Britain’s National Health Service.
The British government has revealed that North Korea was behind the WannaCry ransomware hack that targeted British hospitals.
All legal fee donations to cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins will be refunded following the discovery that the majority were made fraudulently with stolen credit cards.
The computer expert who managed to stop the WannaCry global cyberattack faces 40 years in jail over accusations he helped develop malicious software in 2014.
A massive new ransomware attack similar to the devastating WannaCry virus is hitting corporate and government targets across Europe and Russia, from the A.P. Moller-Maersk shipping line to Russia’s Rosneft oil company.
A new cyber attack worm uses seven leaked tools from the National Security Agency (NSA), according to a report.
Microsoft withheld a free patch from old software users that “could have slowed the devastating spread of ransomware WannaCry to businesses,” opting to charge those using older machines instead, according to a report.
The “Shadow Brokers,” the group that pilfered and published the stolen National Security Agency hacking tools that turned the WannaCry ransomware virus into a global crisis, are threatening to sell more stolen cyber weapons in June.
A cybersecurity firm has claimed that another, bigger cyber attack is on the way, adding that the next incident could “dwarf” the last.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about what Gaffney called “the persistent and seemingly escalating difficulties that the president is having inside his own White House.”
On Monday, a Google security researcher announced the discovery of code in the “WannaCry” ransomware virus that suggests a notorious North Korean hacking group is behind the major cybercrime.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are pointing to circumstantial evidence that North Korea may be behind the global “ransomware” attack: the way the hackers took hostage computers and servers across the world was similar to previous cyberattacks attributed to North Korea.
Disney is refusing, thus far, to buckle to hackers’ ransomware demands to return the new edition of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
SnoopWall, Inc. CEO Gary Miliefsky joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the massive ransomware attack that swept the world over the weekend.
The impact of the WannaCry virus attack has been limited in the United States so far, although security analysts fear that could change in the coming days. The virus has been running wild across Europe and Asia, inflicting an untold amount of financial damage and putting lives in danger, since one of the biggest targets was Britain’s National Health System. Following are 15 important facts about WannaCry, including tips on how to protect vulnerable systems.
Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert addressed the massive ransomware attack known as “WannaCry” or “WannaCrypt” on Monday at the White House, urging businesses and individuals to use security patches to protect themselves from the unknown responsible party.
Microsoft blamed this past week’s global cyber attack on leaked NSA code, before warning the U.S. government to start storing cyber weapons properly.
