Security News > 2017 > July

Hackers have stolen significant amounts of Bitcoin and Ethereum after hijacking a computer belonging to an employee of Bithumb, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. read more

Ukrainian National Police has released a video showing officers raiding company of M.E.Doc accounting software makers, whose systems have been linked to outbreak of Petya (NotPetya) ransomware...

Good commentaries from Ed Felten and Matt Blaze. Both make a point that I have also been saying: hacks can undermine the legitimacy of an election, even if there is no actual voter or vote...

The developers of Libgcrypt, the cryptographic library used by the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) implementation of the OpenPGP standard, released an update last week to prevent side-channel attacks...

One of the world's largest Bitcoin and Ether cryptocurrencies exchanges Bithumb has recently been hacked, resulting in loss of more than $1 Billion in cryptocurrencies after a number of its user...

I don't have anything to say -- mostly because I'm otherwise busy -- about the malware known as GoldenEye, NotPetya, or ExPetr. But I wanted a post to park links. Please add any good revelent...

Cybersecurity Firm's CEO Offers Source Code Review to US GovernmentA senior Russian government official warned that Moscow will retaliate if the Senate moves to ban the use of Kaspersky Lab...

Backdoored Software Facilitated Malware Attack, ESET FindsThe NotPetya outbreak - and XData ransomware before it - have been traced by security researchers at ESET to backdoored M.E. Doc...

Windows 10 users who haven’t installed the Creators Update will soon be notified to review their privacy settings and to install the latest feature update to remain secure, Microsoft announced. read more

Vendor of Hacked Accounting Software Could Face Criminal ChargesFirms in Ukraine and beyond are still struggling to bring all systems back online following last week's devastating "NotPetya"...