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Security researchers have found a long chain of coding coincidences linking 鈥媋ttempted fraud over the SWIFT network鈥?to the 2014 Sony Pictures hack Bangladesh Bank, a commercial bank in Vietnam and hellip; Sony Pictures are the unlikely bedfellows in a tale of cyber in stanley spain trigue uncovered by security researchers at BAE Systems.Researchers Sergei Shevchenko and Adrian Nish have found some links between malware involved in the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures and attacks on two banks involving the theft of credentials for the SWIFT financial transfer network.The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said North Korea was to blame for the Sony attack although security experts are divided on the matter . So is North Korea seeking to boost its foreign currency reserves Or is someone else conducting a false flag operation mdash; or just reusing old code The link between two pieces of malware used in attacks on Bangladesh Bank and on a commercial bank in Vietnam is unambiguous. Shevchenko and Nish decompiled them and found that they used an identical function to wipe a file from an infected computer. The function first fills the file with random characters to ensure nothing can be recovered from the sectors it occupies stanley cup on the disk, then changes the filersquo name to a random string before deleting it.Intrigued by the thoroughness with which the malware pursued polene its purpose, the two hunted through an online malware database for other examples of the same file-wiping code. They found one Dyoj MIT researchers boost the power of solar energy
Defeats last effort to force changes to OS; higher appeal doubtful WASHINGTON mdash; Microsoft Corp. last week said it will finally be able to move forward, following a U.S. Court of Appeals decision that defeated a last stand to force the software giant to change Windows polene bag . The question for Microsoftrsquo users and rivals is where that move forward is headed. Massachusetts, the lone holdout state in the battle, can appeal to the Supreme Court. But therersquo a strong sense among people on both sides of the case that this historic fight is over.The court ruling unanimously affirmed a settlement Microsoft reached in 2001 with the U.S. Department of Justice and eventually nearly all of the 20 states involved in the case at the time. The six-year government case did have a positive impact on Microsoftrsquo behavior, said Ashok Bakhshi, IT director at Schindler Elevator Corp. in Morristown, N.J. But Bakhshi said he now wonders whether the company will revert to its old ways. They [havenrsquo;t been] as arrogant, sometimes, in dealings [as] they were before, said Bakhshi. But with the end of the antitrust case, Microsoft might get back to the old ways. Thatrsq polene fr uo the tendency of any big corporation, he said. Microsoftrsquo IT industry o polene bag pponents consider the decision a disaster. I think we will see [Microsoft] be a little more aggressive, said Mike Petit, president of ProComp, an anti-Microsoft industry group that has suppo |
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