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A new wrinkle in free riding.Ars TechnicaWebsites use your CPU to mine cryptocurrency even when you close your browser Dan Goodin | Security Editor
Read More »RT — CIA wrote code ‘to impersonate’ Russia’s Kaspersky Lab anti-virus company, WikiLeaks says
The equivalent of Photoshop in cyberspace? WikiLeaks says it has published the source code for the CIA hacking tool ‘Hive,’ which indicates that the agency-operated malware could mask itself under fake certificates and impersonate public companies, namely Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.The CIA multi-platform hacking suite ‘Hive’ was able to impersonate existing entities to conceal suspicious traffic from the user being spied on, the source code of the malicious program indicates,...
Read More »Dan Goodin — A surge of sites and apps are exhausting your CPU to mine cryptocurrency
Coinhive harnesses the resources of 500 million people with no questions asked. Ars TechnicaA surge of sites and apps are exhausting your CPU to mine cryptocurrency Dan Goodin | Security Editor at Ars Technica
Read More »Dan Goodin — New wave of Ransomware spreads quickly through Russia and Ukraine
"Bad Rabbit." Ars TechnicaNew wave of Ransomware spreads quickly through Russia and Ukraine Dan Goodin | Security Editor
Read More »RT — Putin: Russia to move away from foreign software for sake of security
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on IT companies in Russia to use domestically developed software, saying that soon the use of such foreign products will no longer be possible in certain sectors due to "high security risks." China has been working on this at least since 2014 according to news reports then.RTPutin: Russia to move away from foreign software for sake of security
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