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COMPUTERS 
September 12, 2017 Over 1.65 Million Computers Infected With Cryptocurrency Miners in 2017 So Far
Telemetry data collected by Kaspersky Lab shows that in the first nine months of 2017, malware that mines for various types of cryptocurrencies has infected more than 1.65 million endpoints. According to Kaspersky, detections for cryptocurrency mining trojans rose from a lowly 205,000 infections in 2013 to nearly 1.8 million in 2016, and 2017 looks […]
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COMPUTERS 
June 22, 2017 Wikileaks Docs Show How the CIA Allegedly Infected Offline Computers
There’s sometimes a way around an air-gap. Hacking air-gapped machines—computers that are not connected to the internet, so theoretically less vulnerable—is always pretty interesting. On Wednesday, Wikileaks published a series of alleged CIA documents that supposedly show how the intelligence agency’s malware was designed to infect these sort of targets. Naturally, the documents indicate how […]
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COMPUTERS 
August 7, 2016 Hyatt Hotels Computers Infected With Malicious Software
Hyatt Hotels on Wednesday revealed that it recently discovered malicious computer code on computers used for processing payments at locations it manages. In a short statement, Hyatt did not disclose what, if anything, the cyber-attack accomplished but said that the company immediately “launched an investigation and engaged leading third-party cyber-security experts.” Hyatt also said it […]
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COMPUTERS 
June 9, 2016 Mac Ransomware caught before huge quantity Of computers infected
An Apple representative stated the employer fast took steps over the weekend to save you furtherinfections through revoking a digital certificates that enabled the rogue software program to install on Macs. the first recognised ransomware assault on Apple Inc’s Mac computer systems, which was determinedover the weekend, became downloaded more than 6,000 times earlier than […]
