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Friday's security updates
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Hackers caused a major blackout for the first time
Hackers were behind a cyber attack on Ukraine in December that had real offline consequences: A blackout that killed electricity to roughly 700,000 homes.
On December 23, around half the homes in Ukraine's Ivano-Frankivsk region lost power for at least a few hours. Initially reported in Ukrainian media as being caused by hackers, cybersecurity experts have now confirmed that was the case, saying the power company was infected with malicious software.
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Finland extradites Russian hacking suspect to US
US authorities are to escort Maxim Senakh out of Finland within a month. They suspect him of stealing millions of dollars from infected computer servers in the US, Finland and elsewhere.
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Linux Ransomware creators third time unlucky as researchers crack encryption again
Researchers find Linux.Encoder 3 version still uses buggy encryption and allows file recovery
Much to the delight of security researchers, a group of malware creators are currently having difficulty getting cryptographic implementations right in their ransomware. This has not happened once but thrice.
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