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Is new KillDisk variant for Linux really ransomware?
A senior research fellow at the security company ESET has cast doubts on whether a new variant of the KillDisk malware is really ransomware, saying whatever ransomware characteristics it exhibits may just be a "skin" used to mask the real motives of the attackers.
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KillDisk in its earlier form was disk-wiping malware and was used in an attack on a power station in the Ukraine in 2015.
FitzGerald described KillDisk, be it the Linux variant or the older Windows variant, as "the nuclear option".
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Shadow Brokers Offers Database Of Windows Exploits For Sale
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Shadow Brokers Now Selling Windows Exploits, Antivirus Bypass Tools
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The Shadow Brokers Return with More Elite NSA Cyberweapons
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Shadow Brokers’ latest leak could have come from beyond NSA staging servers
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FDA warning shows the reality of hackable pacemakers
US OFFICIALS have issued a warning about a brand of pacemaker which can be sent doolally by cyber criminals.
The St Jude Medical cardiac device range uses a feature called "[email protected]" which sends continuous data to ensure the system is working properly.
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The problem isn't a new one. Former Vice President Dick Cheney had communication to his pacemaker deactivated in case of an attempt on his cyborg life with a hack. The plot device was later used in an episode of heavy-breathing real-time drama 24.
Last month, a group of researchers from Belgium and the UK joined forces on a paper warning of the dangers of cardiac meddling, with devices often not regularly patched, a problem it described as "insecurity by obscurity". The team went on to suggest several possible solutions such as permanent signal jamming which is then manually turned off by the user for long enough to download the update.
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