Windows trust in abandoned code lets ransomware burrow deep into targeted machines
Enlarge / A note left behind by the RobbinHood malware.
Attackers behind one of the world’s more destructive pieces of ransomware have found a new way to …
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Comcast “not welcome” here: Customers protest sale of tiny cable company
You can check out any time you’d like, but you can never… well, you know the song.
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Customers of a small cable company in Vermont are protesting the …
Why you can’t bank on backups to fight ransomware anymore
Enlarge / The Credit Union National Association held a ransomware exercise for member institutions and then got hit itself. While CUNA quickly recovered, the assumption that ransomware attacks don’t equal data breaches is changing what “recovery” actually means.
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Uber’s plan to turn billion-dollar losses into profits isn’t crazy
Enlarge / Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in December 2019. (credit: Scott Heins/Getty Images)
Uber announced on Thursday that it lost $1.1 billion in the fourth quarter of last year. As I said last quarter, this wasn’t a surprise. After
The feds just blessed a custom self-driving vehicle for the first time
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday officially signed off on a new self-driving vehicle from the delivery startup Nuro. It’s a historic move; Nuro says it’s the first time
SpaceX plans likely spinoff and IPO for Starlink broadband division
Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 29, 2020.
SpaceX is likely to spin out its Starlink …
Google Play apps with 470k installs can log in to your Facebook and Google accounts
Researchers on Thursday documented two new malware campaigns targeting Android users.
The first involved nine apps that had been downloaded from Google Play more than 470,000 times. With names such …
Malicious warez hosted on Bitbucket get more than 500,000 downloads
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An ongoing attack has so far delivered a cocktail of malicious wares to more than 500,000 machines on the Internet by abusing Bitbucket, the …