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Petya is a family of encrypting malware that was first discovered in 2016. [ 2] The malware targets Microsoft Windows –based systems, infecting the master boot record to execute a payload that encrypts a hard drive's file system table and prevents Windows from booting. It subsequently demands that the user make a payment in Bitcoin in order ...
Uber's GitHub account was accessed through Amazon's cloud-based service. Uber paid the hackers $100,000 for assurances the data was destroyed. [105] December 2016: Yahoo! data breaches reported and affected more than 1 billion users. The data leakage includes user names, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted or unencrypted security ...
Cheat Engine ( CE) is a proprietary, source available [ 5] freeware memory scanner / debugger created by Eric Heijnen ("Byte, Darke") for the Windows operating system in 2000. [ 6][ 7] Cheat Engine is mostly used for cheating in computer games and is sometimes modified and recompiled to support new games. It searches for values input by the ...
ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". [ 1] At the time, Windows computers often hid the latter ...
Script kiddies typically have at least one or more effective and easily downloadable programs capable of breaching computers and networks. [ 2] Script kiddies vandalize websites both for the thrill of it and to increase their reputation among their peers. [ 2] Some more malicious script kiddies have used virus toolkits to create and propagate ...
The Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK), an open source firmware for Canon cameras, uses Lua as one of two scripting languages. Celestia, the astronomy educational program, uses Lua as its scripting language. Cheat Engine, a memory editor/debugger, enables Lua scripts to be embedded in its "cheat table" files, and even includes a GUI designer.
BlackCat (cyber gang) BlackCat, also known as ALPHV[ 1] and Noberus, [ 2] is a ransomware family written in Rust. It made its first appearance in November 2021. By extension, it is also the name of the threat actor (s) who exploit it. BlackCat operates on a ransomware as a service (RaaS) model, with developers offering the malware for use by ...
Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack in which the attacker collects stolen account credentials, typically consisting of lists of usernames or email addresses and the corresponding passwords (often from a data breach), and then uses the credentials to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on other systems through large-scale automated login requests directed against a web ...