VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

This year end, Several of the most widely circulated newspapers in the United States are affected by the target of a Ryuk ransomware strained cyberattack which are reportedly originated on foreign land. The attack reportedly affected printing centers operated by Tribune Publishing and former Tribune Publishing property, the Los Angeles Times - confirming the media is under attack — and if something isn’t done to protect it, we could be headed toward a future in which we can’t believe anything we read. The malware prevented editors from transmitting pages of the papers to printing presses, and it delayed the scheduled printing and delivery of the Saturday editions of several newspapers, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Nobody is sure of the source of the attack, but several people with inside knowledge of Tribune told The Los Angeles Times that the attack appeared to be Ryuk ransomware. Experts have linked this software to groups in North Korea and E...

A  "Malicious Third Party" - hacked about 100 millions of user data from Quora by unauthorized access to its core system, acknowledged by a knowledge-sharing website said on this Monday. "We are writing to let you know that we recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to our systems by a malicious third party." - this is the mail from Quora to all of its users and requested to change their password soon. The user's data are basically account information, names, email addresses, IP addresses, user IDs, encrypted passwords, user account settings, personalization data, public actions and content (including drafts) such as questions, answers, comments, blog posts and up-votes when authorized by users may have been compromised, it said. If you are a Quora user who contributed to the systems anonymously then your data will not have been impacted simply because that it does not store identity data of anonym...

Warning ! If you are using Chrome browser extension from the MEGA file storage service, uninstall it right now. The most popular Mega chrome extension is being hacked by an attacker's server located at megaopac host in Ukraine and replaced with a bundle of PUP Malware for Stealing your Security Information Most of us are popular with the chrome browser and it occupies 59% Browser share world wide with complairsion to other browsers like Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Opera.Google's strong marketing strategy for Chrome certainly contributed (and continues to contribute) to the browser's success. Besides actively stimulating interest in Chrome through marketing, Google's own credibility and reputation passively attract attention to Chrome. Chrome itself famous for its Simplicity and Technologies. Chrome wants the user to focus on the web content without distraction from the browser's UI. But two days ago, on 4th of September an insi...

Sophos has released an in-depth investigative white paper on the SamSam ransomware attacks that first appeared in December 2015. Titled “SamSam: The (Almost) Six Million Dollar Ransomware”, this white paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of this unique ransomware attack by summarizing key findings about attacker’s tools, techniques, and protocols. SamSam is a thorough encryption tool, rendering not only work data files unusable but any program that is not essential to the operation of a Windows computer, most of which are not routinely backed up. SamSam’s attacking method unique as it is manual and as a result, attackers can employ countermeasures (if needed) to evade many security tools. If the process of encrypting data is interrupted, the malware is capable of comprehensively erasing all trace of itself immediately, hindering any investigation. Furthermore, recovery from the attack may require reimaging and/or reinstalling software as well as restoring backu...