Companies and individuals have paid more than $25 million over the past two years to try to get their computer data back from hackers who hijacked it. This is according to new research by Google about the phenomenon….The research, conducted by Google, Chainalysis, University of California at San Diego, and New York University’s Tandon School of...
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Russian Arrested for Allegedly Operating $4 Billion Bitcoin Crime Website
BTC-e, one of the most cryptic crypto exchanges, has been ‘under maintenance’ for a day now, which has led many of its users to express fears that the platform has been hacked. … The American newspaper quoted Damon McCoy, a New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] computer science and engineering professor, who said: “It’s...
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Former Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco on fighting ISIS on social media
Former Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco on fighting ISIS on social media.
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Ransomware victims have paid out more than $25 million, Google study finds
Ransomware victims have paid more than $25 million in ransoms over the last two years, according to a study presented today by researchers at Google, Chainalysis, UC San Diego, and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. By following those payments through the blockchain and comparing them against known samples, researchers were able to build a...
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Google ransomware tracking finds vicious infection cycle
Ransomware surged last year, becoming a multi-million dollar business that’s so profitable it’s creating a “vicious cycle” of ever-increasing attacks, say researchers at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] and Google who tracked the criminals’ payment networks. … The findings suggest that even though the last two large ransomware attacks, Wannacry, and Petya, did...
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Google Warns Ransomware Boom Scored Crooks $2 Million A Month
As the ransomware scourge calms down for the summer holidays, Google has taken a retrospective at that particular pesky form of cybercrime, finding it only become massively profitable in the last year and a half. … Their success, and the sudden jump in revenue, is down to their distribution via botnets, in particular one known...
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Ransomware Attacks: Victims Have Paid More Than $25 Million Since 2014
Ransomware attacks have grown increasingly more common in recent years and their impact shows in the wallets of victims. Those who have fallen prey to ransomware have paid more than $25 million in ransoms since 2014, a study found. The data comes from researchers at Google; blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis; University of California, San Diego;...
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Affiliate Roundtable: Privacy and Data Security
The collection, storage, use, and disclosure of consumer data are hot topics in the legal, regulatory, and legislative communities.
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Delta Air Lines tries letting passengers use fingerprints as boarding passes
Where’s your boarding pass? Forget it. Delta Air Lines is letting some passengers board planes with just their fingerprints…“With a password, you can just change it and move on with your life. You can’t do that with fingerprints,” said Nasir Memon, a professor of computer science at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
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At Cybersecurity Camps, Teen Girls Learn About Protecting Nation, Breaking Barriers
Talk to the teenage girls studying cybersecurity at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] this summer, and you’ll get an earful about their determination to protect their country, safeguard privacy, and conquer their fair share of a male-dominated field.The young women are attending one of a rising number of camps devoted to the niche...