Security: MalwareTech, F2FS, and WannaCry
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MalwareTech released on bail; supporters to meet Wednesday
MalwareTech, the cyber security researcher who halted the WannaCry ransomware virus earlier this year and was arrested in Las Vegas last week, will be released on bail today and will travel directly to Milwaukee for a court appearance tomorrow in the Eastern District of Wisconsin – Update: the arraignment is rescheduled for 10am on Monday, 14 August. After 24 hours of no information about his arrest, and a flurry of international news coverage, it was reported that MalwareTech, who lives in the UK and who was in the US for Defcon, was not a flight risk and will be allowed out on $30,000 bail.
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Marcus Hutchins freed on bail, to face court on 14 Aug
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Regarding Marcus Hutchins aka MalwareTech
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F2FS Hit By Three Security Vulnerabilities: Memory Corruption, Possible Code Execution
Btrfs isn't the only Linux file-system taking some heat but the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now having a tough week with three CVEs going public.
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How leaked exploits empower cyber criminals [Ed: The problem is the stockpiling and the back doors (e.g. by design, see Microsoft-NSA collaborations), not just the leaks.]
A central themes in the 2016 report was issues that arose from the Mirai botnet and the takeover of numerous insecure IoT devices. Although those record-setting DDoS attacks were vastly different from 2017’s outbreak of WannaCry ransomware and the destructive NotPetya malware, the events share a similar root cause: leaked exploits and source code. IoT botnets and data-encrypting malware were of course common before those incidents however the September 2016 release of the Mirai source code and the April 2017 release of NSA exploits exacerbated the crime.
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