Malware

NotPetya and WannaCry may have grabbed headlines over the last few months, but ESET points out in a recent report that the Ukraine has been under siege for months by a group dubbed TeleBots that has run a series of damaging attacks against that country.

Researchers from Trend Micro have discovered a malware campaign seemingly targeting Israeli hospitals with highly obfuscated information-stealing malware that abuses LNK shortcut files.

The security firm advises the "importance of planning", as "protecting data protects your bottom line".

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., has called on the National Security Agency (NSA) to release any kill switches or protective services that could help mitigate the cyberattacks launched using NSA-created malicious tools.

Monetising a global ransomware attack on the scale of NotPetya is all but impossible without getting caught. So if not cold cash, what was the motivation behind it?

Researchers claim to have found a 'killswitch' for NotPetya, but there seems to be disagreement over what to call it.