Tag: Worm

  • Make a 2D Grappling Hook Game in Unity – Part 1

    Grappling hooks add a fun and interesting mechanic to your games. You can use them to traverse levels, fight in arenas, or even retrieve …

  • Someone Programmed an Arduino Board with a Worm’s Brain

    There isn’t much to Caenorhabditis elegans. At about 1 mm in length, it’s the smallest of the …

  • Watch out for Emotet, the trojan that’s nearly a worm

    Network worms and Trojan malware are back with a vengeance. A good example is WannaCry, which infected hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe in May. Now comes Emotet – malware with worm and trojan characteristics that exploits weak admin passwords to spread across a victim’s network. Read full news article on Naked Security  

  • Who Needs Aliens When Prehistoric Anus-Faced Worms Already Existed

    A little over half a billion years ago, complex life on Earth rapidly diversified in an evolutionary event known as the Cambrian explosion. This period in history was not shy about producing otherworldly creatures that seem alien from an Anthropocene perspective. Read full news article on motherboard.vice.com  

  • Broadpwn Flaw Shown at Black Hat Could Have Enabled WiFi Worm Attack

    Hundreds of millions of devices including all IOS and Android devices were at risk from flaw that could have enabled a massive WiFi worm malware attack. Read full news article on eWeek  

  • Google Takes Second Swing at OAuth Worm

    Mitigations put in place by Google in May 2017 to help block phishing attacks such as the recent OAuth worm weren’t enough to completely mitigate the issue, as Google’s platform still allowed malicious OAuth clients to be submitted under deceiving names, Proofpoint security researchers say. Read full news article on SecurityWeek  

  • This Worm Virus Forced Windows Users to Watch ‘Homestar Runner’

    The W32/Lacon-A virus was a worm making the rounds in the early to mid-2000s. Looking back at it today, it’s packed with nostalgia, from spam emails about the Do Not Call registry to a Homestar Runner cameo. Read full news article on motherboard.vice.com  

  • NotPetya — ‘Ransomware’ That Spreads like a Worm

    NotPetya, as it turned out, was disseminated via the compromised software from MeDoc, a distributor of tax accounting software mandated by the Ukrainian government. Hackers seemed to have breached the firm’s computer systems and compromised a software update that was published to customers on June 22 — leading the malware to spread to more than…

  • Global ransomware attack was meant to be destructive, not collect money

    A global ransomware outbreak Tuesday was inherently designed to be destructive in nature, according to private sector cybersecurity researchers. An analysis of Petya conducted by Comae Technologies’ Matthieu Suiche reveals that computer code in the June 27 version of the malware is different than previous samples which were tied to incidents involving monetary gain. Read full…

  • How to Protect Against WannaCry Worm That’s Still Wreaking Havoc

    Last week, a Honda plant in Japan was forced to shut down for a day while managers cleared it of the WannaCry ransomware worm that had infected its unpatched Windows computers. A similar event took out some 50 traffic cameras in Australia. Read full news article on eWeek  

  • Cyber Attack at Honda Stops Production After WannaCry Worm Strikes

    Honda said this week that it was forced to halt production for one day at its Sayama plant near Tokyo after finding the WannaCry ransomware in its computer network. This virus is the same one that infected over one million machines worldwide after taking advantage of security holes in some Microsoft products. Read full news…

  • Worm grows second head after visit to space

    After spending more than a month aboard the International Space Station, one partially amputated flatworm came back to Earth with a bizarre new talent. Read full news article on CNET  

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