Experts have confirmed there are similarities between code used by the ransomware WannaCry and the Lazarus APT.
Apple Patches Pwn2Own Vulnerabilities in Safari, macOS, iOS
Apple fixed 66 vulnerabilities – many found at March’s Pwn2Own competition – across seven product lines, including Safari, iTunes, macOS, and iOS, on Monday.
DocuSign Phishing Campaign Includes Hancitor Downloader
DocuSign warns of a breach and subsequent theft of email addresses that are part of a phishing campaign that employs malicious macro-laced Word documents.
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Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Sleep trackers: more of a data nightmare than a data dream?
Do you drift off each night with an app? Take what it says with a pinch of salt, says the researcher who tried out 10 of them
FTC launches crackdown on tech support scammers
Scammers get away with stealing an average of $290 – don’t be their next victim. Here’s our advice on how to spot them and avoid them
Hospitals rapped for sharing 1.6m patient records with Google
Passing the patient records to the Google-owned company to help it build a health app as ‘inappropriate’, warns watchdog
Microsoft Job Posting Hints At VR MMO
sqorbit writes: Microsoft has posted a job opening for a Senior Design Manager for a mixed-reality team. The posting states they are “looking to build a massively social gaming and entertainment experience for both the PC and the console.” It…
Disney Chief Bob Iger Says Hackers Claim To Have Stolen Upcoming Movie
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Hollywood Reporter: Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed Monday that hackers claiming to have access to a Disney movie threatened to release it unless the studio paid a ransom. Iger didn’t disclose the…
WannaCry Ransomware Shares Code With North Korean Malware, Says Researchers
New submitter unarmed8 quotes a report from CyberScoop: The ransomware known as WannaCry that spread rapidly to 300,000 machines in 150 countries over the past few days shares code with malware written by a group of North Korean hackers known…