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Operation GhostSecret is the latest global cyber attack operation being carried out by North Korea in 17 countries says McAfee report
Tech2 News Staff •Operation GhostSecret has similar signatures, which shows the high profile nature of the North Korean hackers according to McAfee.
Top tech companies state that they will not assist any government in conducting offensive cyber attacks, sign pledge
•The Cybersecurity Tech Accord signed by these companies vows to protect all customers from attacks regardless of geopolitical or criminal motive.
Human error caused cloud-related cyber attacks to increase by 424 percent in 2017: IBM
Ians •Ransomware reigned in 2017 as cyber attacks such as WannaCry, NotPetya and Bad Rabbit hit several industries.
No IT system including Aadhaar can claim to be 100 percent safe, says security software maker Sophos
•When Sophos was asked on Aadhaar, which claims to be safe and secure, it said "in terms of vulnerabilities, no one can claim that his system is 100 percent safe".
Forget WannaCry, cryptocurrency miner WannaMine has now been spotted stealing computing resources
Tech2 News Staff •WannaMine initially uses a tool called Mimikatz to steal credentials, failing which it attempts to uses EternalBlue to break in and start mining.
North Korean ambassador to UN demands US prove claim that Pyongyang was behind Wannacry ransomware attack
•North Korea's envoy in charge of US affairs at the United Nations demanded Washington provide evidence to back up its claim Pyongyang was behind the Wannacry ransomware attack
North Korea denies allegations made by US about Pyongyang's hand in the WannaCry cyberattack
Ians •Earlier this week, White House Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert had blamed Pyongyang for the WannaCry cyberattack.
Facebook and Microsoft have disabled potential North Korean cyberthreats: US
•A Facebook spokesman said the company deleted accounts associated with Lazarus “to make it harder for them to conduct their activities.”
West Bengal is planning to introduce blockchain technology to protect documents from cyberattack
•The blockchain is an online ledger of digitally recorded transactions which is encrypted in the form of blocks.
United States says North Korea directly responsible for huge WannaCry cyberattack
•The United States officially accused North Korea late on Monday of carrying out the massive WannaCry attack that infected some 300,000 computers this year.