Shadow Brokers

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  Blame Game for Cyber-Attacks Grows Murkier as Spying, Crime Tools Mix

  Security experts refer to this as "the attribution problem", using technical evidence to assign blame for cyber-attacks in order to take appropriate legal and political responses.

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  Shadow Brokers Says Will Release More Data in July to Paying Customers

  The Shadow Brokers group said in an announcement on the internet that it has not yet determined what files will be in the collection.

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  WannaCry Ransomware: North Korea Denies Role in Global Cyber-Attacks

  Up to 300,000 computers in 150 countries were hit by the WannaCry worm, which seizes systems and demands payment in Bitcoin to return control to users.

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  WannaCry Ransomware Cyber-Attacks Are Good Business for Security Firms

  As for most cyber-security firms, highly publicised cyber-attacks are good for business, even though experts say such attacks underscore the industry's failings.

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  WannaCry Ransomware: Stellar Data Recovery Claims to Have a Solution Locked Files

  Stellar Data Recovery on Friday claimed it has cracked the ransomware at its R&D labs and is currently working on five cases from India.

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  WannaCry Ransomware: French Researchers Find Last-Ditch Cure to Unlock Files

  A loose-knit team of security researchers scattered across the globe said they collaborated to develop a workaround to unlock the encryption key for files hit in the global attack.

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  WannaCry Attacks: Microsoft Criticised for Not Offering Free Patches to 'Unsupported' Windows XP Users Earlier

  Before WannaCry attacks, Microsoft charged Windows XP customers for software patches that would've fixed the vulnerability.

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  WannaCry Ransomware: Cyber-Attack Oddities Puzzle Cyber-Security Researchers

  The ransomware is throwing up several surprises for cyber-security researchers, including how it gained its initial foothold, how it spread so fast and why the hackers are not making much money from it.

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  WannaCry Ransomware: Who Is Really to Blame for the Cyber-Attacks?

  Days after the virus first exploded on Friday, Microsoft is pointing the finger squarely at the National Security Agency, for its role in enabling the virus.

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  WannaCry Ransomware: Cyber-Attacks Could Spark Lawsuits, But Not Against Microsoft

  Businesses could face legal claims if they failed to deliver services because of the attack, said Edward McAndrew, a data privacy lawyer at Ballard Spahr.

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  Putin Says Russia Not Involved in WannaCry Ransomware Cyber-Attack, Blames US

  "As for the source of these threats, Microsoft's leadership stated this directly, they said the source of the virus was the special services of the United States," Putin said.

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  WannaCry Ransomware: Global Cyber-Attacks Fuel Concern About US Vulnerability Disclosures

  Hacking tools believed to belong to the NSA that were leaked online last month appear to be the root cause of the global cyber-attacks.

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  WannaCry Ransomware Cyber-Attacks: MeitY Says Activated 'Response Mechanism'

  According to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), it has activated a "preparedness and response mechanism" by instructing CERT-IN to gather all the information of the WannaCry ransomware.

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  WannaCry Ransomware: CERT-In Issues Red Alert Over Cyber-Attack

  A red-coloured 'critical alert' was issued by the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In), the nodal agency to combat hacking, phishing and to fortify security-related defences of the Indian Internet domain.

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  WannaCry Ransomware: Microsoft Slams US Government's Vulnerability Hoarding Practice

  "The governments of the world should treat this attack as a wake-up call," Smith wrote. "We need governments to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits."