Persirai targets more than a thousand different internet protocol camera models. Researchers at Trend Micro warn that 120,000 web-connected cameras are vulnerable to the malware.
Consumers would, in most cases, be unaware that their devices are even exposed to the internet much less at risk of compromise. Hackers are using a known but seldom patched vulnerability to hack the cameras.
Source: Another IoT botnet has been found feasting on vulnerable IP cameras
Emmanuel Macron’s digital team responded to cyberattacks with a “cyber-blurring” strategy that involved fake email accounts loaded with false documents.
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“We created false accounts, with false content, as traps. We did this massively, to create the obligation for them to verify, to determine whether it was a real account,” Mr. Mahjoubi said. “I don’t think we prevented them. We just slowed them down,” he said. “Even if it made them lose one minute, we’re happy,” he said.
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But he did note that in the mishmash that constituted the Friday dump, there were some authentic documents, some phony documents of the hackers’ own manufacture, some stolen documents from various companies, and some false emails created by the campaign.
Source: Hackers Came, but the French Were Prepared
What this does – which is more important – is it puts the onus on the leakers / hackers to verify the contents of their data, which is a big deal, as this is hard to do and time consuming. As soon as any doubt is seeded on the authenticity on even one of the documents in a leaked trove, the whole of the trove massively loses value.
TITSUP: Total Inability To Stand Up Products
Loads of people reported that, at around 1245 PT, access to the service went out. Microsoft confirmed shortly after it was having problems, and said it was looking into the matter. Subscribers in New York, Denver, Texas, and Portland, in the US, were, for example, unable to access the service.
We are investigating a problem affecting access to Office 365, and we will post an update as soon as we have more info.
— Office 365 Status (@Office365Status) May 10, 2017Monitoring site Downdetector was crammed with reports of outages from both coasts of the US and major cities as users reported the cloud-connected Office service to be inaccessible.
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we notice they tweeted that as of 1338 PT, sign-in issues are being resolved
Source: Well this is awkward. As Microsoft was bragging about Office at Build, Office 365 went down
The problem with the Cloud