WannaCry

The global WannaCry attack that crippled business operations across the globe happened almost a year ago. But since falling victim, the U.K. National Health Service has yet to fully implement the necessary cybersecurity requirements that would prevent a similar fate if an attack struck again. A new report ...

The ability to invest in cyber security is also being hindered because the Department of Health "still does not know what financial impact the WannaCry cyber-attack had on the NHS," warn the MPs who set a deadline for June for an update of costed plans for "vital" cyber security investment. "The extensive ...

At the opening of the 2018 RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, executives from RSA, Microsoft and McAfee offered an update on the state of cybersecurity, focusing on WannaCry. They called for the industry to work more closely together to protect not just individuals but also society. See Also: ...

The UK's National Health Service has learned from last year's WannaCry attack – and started putting in place disaster recovery measures that will allow it to maintain services in the face of an even fiercer assault. The worldwide spread of WannaCry last May hit hospital networks particularly hard and left ...

Kryptos Logic, the cyber-security firm running the main WannaCry sinkhole, announced today plans to allow organizations access to some of the WannaCry sinkhole data. The security firm cites recurring WannaCry ransomware infections that are still taking place at various companies, even eleven months ...

On the morning of March 28, the Seattle Times reported the WannaCry ransomware had infiltrated aerospace manufacturer Boeing. The paper cited an internal memo from Mike VanderWel, chief engineer at Boeing. It's hard to imagine a memo more alarming: “It is metastasizing rapidly out of North ...

Modern airplanes are, like so much else, bundles of metal wrapped around code. So when news got out Wednesday afternoon that Boeing had been hit by the Wannacry worm, a brief panic and hysteria swept the aviation world: did the worm get into aircraft software? Could a worm in aircraft software ...

There was a time when cyber attacks were limited to the financial and technology firms alone. With the expansion of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) in almost every business, cyber attacks have also spread their wings. So, if 2017, WannaCry ...

For example, the patch for the vulnerability that led to WannaCry was released just like any other “Microsoft Patch Tuesday” patch, which may have led people to believe that the vulnerability wasn't all that critical. Moreover, incompatibilities with patches and infrastructure can cause other critical programs to ...

Another cryptojacking attack has been discovered, and it uses the EternalBlue exploit that powered the massive WannaCry attack that took out systems around the world. RedisWannaMine, discovered by Imperva security researchers, targets vulnerable Windows servers with the leaked NSA exploit.

Three months earlier, a North Korean cyberattack known as WannaCry had crippled the British health-care system and caused a billion dollars in losses across 150 countries. The damage could have been much worse — tens of billions, by one estimate — but a few hours after the attack began, Hutchins ...

WannaCry, one of the most destructive ransomware viruses ever, is still making the rounds in unpatched local government computers nearly a year after it was first detected. Last Friday, 160 computers across 12 state agencies in Connecticut were hit with the Wannacry virus, NECN reported. No files were ...

The U.S. and Britain have accused North Korea and Russia of being behind the WannaCry and NotPetya cyberattacks, respectively. McAfee's Young said that the cybersecurity industry was better equipped in 2018 to fight ransomware threats. He said that ransomware was a "constant game that we're ...

Ransomware on mobile devices skyrocketed by 415% in 2017, according to Trend Micro's Mobile Threat Landscape report of nearly 500,000 mobile ransomware samples. The uptick may be a direct result of the publicly published source code of a strain of ransomware called SLocker. A version of the code ...

About one dozen Connecticut government agencies were hit late last week with what one published report said was a WannaCry ransomworm attack that has knocked about 160 computers offline. NECN.com is reporting that the attack began late Friday afternoon and eventually impacted 12 separate ...

The WannaCry ransomware virus made its way onto about 160 computers in 11 different Connecticut government agencies, according to Mark Raymond, the state's CIO. The state's security monitoring system alerted officials of the breach Friday afternoon. IT staff worked through the weekend and were able ...

One of the ways savvy hackers are preying on organizations is by taking advantage of encryption to "conceal command-and-control activity," according to the Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report. Though encryption is meant to protect digital networks, hackers are finding leak paths, which are a ...

The committee outlined its concern in an RFI posted Friday over outdated medical devices, especially after WannaCry. The May 2017 attack impacted hundreds of thousands of devices by leveraging a flaw in legacy technology and crippled a wide range of organizations, including the U.K National Health ...

The report notes prior to WannaCry, many NHS facilities were "unprepared for the relatively unsophisticated WannaCry attack." These facilities had not shared and tested response plans, and NHS personnel did not have established practices to communicate with one another as the attack unfolded.