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Canada Uses Civil Anti-Spam Law in Bid to Fine Malware Purveyors

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Canadian government regulators are using the country’s powerful new anti-spam law to pursue hefty fines of up to a million dollars against Canadian citizens suspected of helping to spread malicious software. Section 8 involves the surreptitious installation of computer programs on computers or networks including malware and spyware.

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Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware

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Croatia government agencies have been targeted by unknown hackers with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. ” reads one of the alerts.

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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

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pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and for his role in owning, administering and supporting illegal “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostress[.]in Usatyuk of Orland Park, Ill. in , quezstresser[.]com

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Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans

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” Change shared only that “a cybercriminal accessed our computer system without our permission.” which suffered a data breach in 2015 affecting 78.8 Anthem reported revenues of around $80 billion in 2015. In the section of the missive titled “Why did this happen?,” million individuals.

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Experts linked Maui ransomware to North Korean Andariel APT

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North Korean nation-state actors used Maui ransomware to encrypt servers providing healthcare services, including electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, may be eligible for a reward. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack

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Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. “IT officials are working to get the communication systems back online.”

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Sopra Steria hit by the Ryuk ransomware gang

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A cyber attack was detected on the Sopra Steria computer network on the evening of October 20. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Security measures have been taken to limit the risk of propagation.” ” reads the press release published by the company.