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...
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WhatsApp Now Allows You to Share Any File Type
WhatsApp is adding a brand new feature in its latest update: the ability to share any file type. …Damon McCoy, a Computer Science and Engineering professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, said that “most cellphones unless you root them will only allow you to run apps if they’re from official stores.” In regions...
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America's Online Enemies
From election meddling and economic espionage to financial fraud and personal identity theft, it’s becoming clear that cybersecurity is increasingly central to every aspect of the way we live. Both state-sponsored cyber-spies and transnational organized crime groups pose urgent threats online to our nation’s critical infrastructure, our security, and our fundamental values in a democratic...
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Hackers Have Been Stealing Credit Card Numbers from Trump’s Hotels for Months
Guests at 14 Trump properties, including hotels in Washington, New York and Vancouver, have had their credit card information exposed, marking the third time in as many years that a months-long security breach has affected customers of the chain of luxury hotels. … “It seems very negligent that this could happen a number of times,”...