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Two serious security flaws that could let attackers steal sensitive data have been discovered in nearly all of the world's computers and mobile devices.

Though Iran initially had no idea it was attacked by a cyber weapon, believing its scientists and engineers were incompetent due to the failures, eventually the code escaped and worldwide infections led computer researchers to study it, and the idea of leaving «no trace» of the attacker was gone.

Two - fifths of the time, the attackers encrypted data on more than one computer.

Japanese security software maker Trend Micro (tmicy) said that it had warned Adobe (adbe) that it had seen attackers exploiting the flaw to infect computers with a type of ransomware known as «Cerber» as early as March 31.

It's a botnet, called «Adylkuzz,» that infects victims» computers and makes them secretly mine a cryptocurrency called Monero to make money for the attackers — and it seems to have pulled in tens of thousands of dollars.

It also means that hackers sometimes try and hijack people's computers to mine cryptocurrencies without them realising — making the attacker a tidy profit at the expense of the victim's computer's performance.

A few months ago, our kids» school district, one of the largest in South Carolina, was hit with a virus that spread «ransomware,» a malicious software designed to block computer systems by encrypting the data in which the attackers gain access.

Those tools can siphon off oceans of data — passwords, keystrokes, screen images, documents and, in some cases, recordings from computers» microphones and Web cameras — and send the information back to the attackers» Web servers.

More facts came to light on Monday, when pressured by local media, the company revealed that the breach occurred after an unknown attacker hacked the personal computer of a Bithumb employee, from where he stole the details of over 31,800 Bithumb users — about 3 % of the platform's entire userbase.

Chinese hackers have established a reputation for low - tech «phishing,» the sending of disguised emails to get a company's employees or a government's bureaucrats to allow the attackers access to their computer networks.

Investigators believe Iranian attackers placed a virus on computers of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's largest company, in 2012.

«Because of the static nature of a computer network, the attacker has a time advantage,» said Dinghao Wu, assistant professor of information sciences and technology.

The attacks included the use of botnets, networks of otherwise benign computers that are broken into and controlled remotely by an attacker.

Now Clark and colleagues have investigated how the cloud could be used to build a botnet, a network of infected computers under an attacker's control.

«The attackers now know what to expect with authentication that asks them to smile or blink, so they can produce a blinking model or smiling face in real time relatively easily,» said Erkam Uzun, a graduate research assistant in Georgia Tech's School of Computer Science and the paper's first author.

«We looked at the problem knowing what the attackers would likely do,» said Simon Pak Ho Chung, a research scientist in Georgia Tech's School of Computer Science.

In the end, Sony backed down and ended up paying out millions of dollars in compensation to music buyers after it was shown the rootkit would allow an attacker to subvert the computer of someone who had the software installed.

Ransomware, where a victim's computer is locked and the attacker demands a payment in return, was the method of attack against Claire Danes» character.

In other words, if you visit a website designed to take advantage of the vulnerability, it could run code within IE that gives the attacker control of the victim's computer.

In practice, an attacker usually has a «command and control» computer which controls a cloud of «bots», which are other people's computers subverted by viruses.

Care to speculate about whether defending your system, or poisoning the attacker's system, would constitute «colour of right» that is a defence against a charge of unauthorized access to someone else's computer system?

Thousands of government websites around the world have been found infected with a specific script that secretly forces visitors» computers to mine cryptocurrency for attackers.

«Cryptocurrency is the new hotness and you look at what the price of bitcoin and a bunch of the other currencies have done over the last year and it's inevitable that the attackers are going to start trying to harness your computer and mine to generate these types of currencies,» Goodin says.

The issue highlighted to us was a proof of concept, in which an attacker could theoretically change the «receive» address seen on the computer's screen by a user sending cryptocurrencies while using the Ledger Chrome application.

The attacker also apparently controls a computer called INSA - PC, because (a) the GMail account of an individual infected by the attacker was accessed from the same IP address as INSA - PC, and (b) INSA - PC is located in between two other addresses known to be associated with this attacker.

Once established on that single computer, the attackers can then steal credentials and start to probe the rest of the network for other vulnerable machines, repeating the process on other computers until they achieve their objective, whether that is stealing data, intellectual property, or disrupting the business.

The leaked NSA tools were used in a recent cryptocurrency attack, called Adylkuzz, which used an army of hacked computers, a botnet, to mine cryptocurrency and redirect reward points to the attackers» accounts.

There are theoretical ways to make Bitcoin fully quantum - safe, but the fact that an address is simply a hash of a public key does mean that once quantum computers do come out attackers will be able to do much less damage before we fully switch over.

So with a single update to the home location of the respective malware, a single attacker can instantly coordinate hundreds of thousands of compromised computers to perform a massive DDoS attack.

Botnets are networks of compromised computers, controlled by remote attackers in order to perform such illicit tasks as sending spam or attacking other computers.

Apparently, the attackers installed a second malware application on the computers it infected, targeting a specific list of domains.

A Russian businessman was held hostage until he logged onto his computer and transferred around $ 100,000 of Bitcoin to his attackers.

Researchers from the Ben - Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have identified 29 ways in which attackers could use USB devices to compromise users» computers.

Tavis Ormandy, an IT security researcher at Google's Project Zero has identified a critical flaw in Transmission BitTorrent app that if exploited lets attackers take full control of a targeted computer on Linux or Windows operating system.

The very real fear is that attackers could exploit the flaw on vulnerable systems to gain access to parts of the computer's memory which may be storing sensitive information.

Design flaw in Intel processors opens door to rootkits, researcher says A design flaw in the x86 processor architecture dating back almost two decades could allow attackers to install a rootkit in the low - level firmware of computers, a security researcher said Thursday.

A design flaw in the x86 processor architecture dating back almost two decades could allow attackers to install a rootkit in the low - level firmware of computers, a security researcher said Thursday.

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