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kaspersky reported that they've identified the malware that was used and most likely because it was the government of israel and the they didn't name israel specifically but they implied that it was israel. during that time that this person is network had been breached. a n.s.a. contractor had wrongly taken classified material home. put it on his laptop his personal laptop which was running kaspersky anti-virus that because kaspersky had already identified some of that malware. when they found it on a server in the middle east it was that a signature had been being created right prior to this sort of rogue contractor and say taking classified material home so the moment that he had it available on his laptop because percy hours worked the way that it's most to work at it searches for matches of malware on your laptop to protect you and that's what it did so it found him our removed it which is exactly what antivirus is designed to do but because the network had already been breached because kaspersky network had been breached the israeli government learned about it they in turn notified

the malware will stick to that. often times we think things are not connected to the internet but they really are, by the way. in the off chance they are not and somebody wanted to get into this device, and perhaps take data away from it, they have to get it out. if they do a kind of hardware hack or hardware implanted in change a check, now they have created a path to put the data out. so because of the global marketplace, because the voting machines as well as many other hardware made of just and software, the concept for how to do this is pretty well known and relatively easy, as we have seen. this created the opportunity. now, who would want to do this and to have the capability to do this? at a number of nation states that have actively unitedying to influence states elections for years. now we have given them a new way to do that. perhaps some other elements as well. criminal terrorist groups. many of them are generally accepted by the community of having the wherewithal, that is the sophistication, the money,

he had on that computer malware developed during his work at n.s.a. . because kaspersky lab network had been breached by the israeli intelligence service. israel was able to detect what kaspersky a.v. had found and then notified the n.s.a. the part of the new york times story that was completely without foundation that that the kaspersky lab product was used for spying and that is not correct there is no evidence to support that the only thing that happened was exactly what the what is supposed to happen a antivirus product. throw the match a protective device well we're already you know the signature created for so. that's all that there was there was no nothing improper it just did what it was supposed to do. thousands of people are protesting the crosscuts alone here on spain's national day is the impasse over the region's future intensifies tensions spilled over into clashes in the center boss alone. thank you i thank you. thank you prime minister said the monday deadline for the council president to decide whether or not the region has actually ado

"send us that and we'll get the malware off your computer." well, there is no malware on your computer, this is a scam. so, those are the big kind of scams we get, you know, we hear about from seniors. and we're dedicated to try and root out each and every scam. and thanks to this partnership with comcast, we're going to be able to reach more seniors and educate them, which is our best defense against these kinds of scams. david: lauren, i'll say obviously internet essentials is a program targeted to low-income seniors, but one of the powerful elements of this program is that these scams impact not just low-income seniors, these impact seniors of all sorts of income levels in the state. and you asked about distribution channels for this. we're going to be reaching seniors at every income level, not just low-income seniors, and i think really helping to make a dent in the scams and almost the terrorizing that occurs of seniors online. so, it's a program with a much broader implication than just low-income seniors qualifying for internet essenti

it already has the malware inside it and these are things, read the newspaper today. we're seeing this done every single day. so, as kind of the bottom line is, are the voting machines spectral? no, they're not. they're hardware and software and we've demonstrated that this can happen. so, i think that this, if you follow logically this scenario, it should give each one of us causes to pause and really be concerned about the elections and our processes and these voting machines of the future. >> thank you. so, mr. gilligan, as the entitle, or the head of the entity that helps with the cyber security and ones that administer our elections, what are we going to do about this? [inaudible] >> first thought would be-- intractable problem. i was chief information officer of the air force some time ago and i'll tell story to me to put into context what we with the security used to do. they would do a penetration analysis of each of the services, air force being one and then we'd get a debriefing. i'm sure they're a lot better today. but back then my biggest fear was if anyon

and that's exactly what this program is supposed to do is get rid of malware get rid of any viruses that you have on a computer it goes through two hundred thousand codes a day sucking these things in like a vacuum and spitting them out cleaning up computers so that's exactly what this is supposed to do now the n.s.a. say that this these documents are stolen and really without any foundation behind that claim i mean it's a massive claim and it's hurting because first in many ways the u.s. government now has basically said that all their computers that they have to get rid of this program which has been saving about four hundred million computers around the world each and every day from viruses and also companies like best buy office depot have removed these products off the shelves so the u.s. government even pushing further saying that you know private users watch out because this is a russian made type of program that's been yet saving our computers all this time well now it's possibly stealing our information and what so far as that was another article that was written by the new york

has found out which celebrities are most likely to land users on websites that carry viruses all malware. if you google celine dion's you're in dangerous waters some twelve point nine percent of searches lead to pages that have potential for online trends. in false maltese british pop singers a manic formerly of boy band one direction he's looking a bit mean of these days and his search results are downright dangerous he uses can end up in trouble in thirteen percent of cases. number three cali ray jepson greatest hits call me maybe go on it over a million hits and inspired many parodies chances of catching a virus fly at thirteen point two percent. number two is bruno modest they're hugely popular and prolific singing and dancing hawaiian but where if you look him up on the net thirteen point four percent of searches lead to dodgy content. and that number one avril lavigne she hasn't released an album in yet is but it's still very risky to search for her online fourteen point five percent of the searches are hazardous. that with this week's ranking and now or thomas vehicles all the fut

the biggest of them get media attention to want to cry attack in may this year was one example the malware shut down entire systems and demanded a ransom to unlock data companies in germany know the risks and according to a survey it's always the same suspects the main perpetrator is russian forty five percent of executives to see russia as a particular threat china is not far behind as third of respondents in germany believe that hackers from inside the u.s. could digitally spy on their companies or launch cyber attacks against them with the several of them interests can be. better reputation you will face in the market . seeing current media really there's about a large head in the past for sure this damages your appreciation you can have a direct financial impact or you can always fall simply lose your complete business of now product information got stolen the product can be produced much much cheaper and in our country by some estimates german companies are already losing fifteen billion euros annually due to cyber attacks and analysts say criminal groups are constantly planning the n

germany according to the labs war the people that build these security systems systems against a malware the software that which many of us use so what we're seeing here is that you know there's a lot of countries outside of north america that are in danger as well we saw a worldwide attack earlier this this year with want to cry we're even hospitals were down there that there's another fancy name for you want to cry so you know that this is the way that these things work and fortunately as i said companies are taking this more and more seriously there's literally said it sucks in about two hundred thousand of these codes a day and it spits them out cleans things up so you see that this is something that's that's hitting all the time and you have to be very vigilant and fortunately countries and companies are being very vigilant and it seems at least for now they're taking care of business good to know thank you so much i. the chorus want to. thank you. the rise of ransomware it's one of the most common attacks on our electronic devices and systems it gets in hold your information hostag

trains were going as usual but the payment system was down and this was all due to this hack to the malware is called . that rabbit with some fancy name for it this was bad rabbit and it went on to also attack russia now in russia the big company that was hit is interfax now interfax is one of the largest news agencies in russia they are saying it was an unprecedented virus attack there the attack also went on to hit a few other places like turkey and germany according to the labs who are the people that build these security systems systems against a malware the software that which many of us use so what we're seeing here is that you know there's a lot of countries outside of north america that are all in danger as well we saw worldwide attack earlier this this year with want to cry we're even hospitals were down there that there's another fancy name for you want to cry so you know that this is the way that these things work and fortunately as i said companies are taking this more and more seriously there's literally said it sucks in about two hundred thousand of these codes a day and it sp

computer or mobile phone to be intercepted in some cases but then use the vulnerability to inject malware experts say could leave the majority of connections at risk until they are patched protect your devices and update the devices as soon as an update is available. it's over that is with mock buckman from the german association because i'm. tell me how this whole time about how it was actually discovered by the researchers the researchers from belgium from the couple of churches live in investigating that there's on a certain stage of the. exchange of information between the clients the lies and the access point the key could be used twice which is not just not supposed to be but this meant from what i've read that the hack is involved would have to be extremely close that they would be extremely close actually they should they have would have to act this man in the middle so in between declines device and access point and simulating that they already access point. who could be affected but to actually. theoretically everybody who's using the wife i everybody of course this is a standar

machine it already has the malware inside it. these are things that read the newspaper today, we're seen this done every single day. as, the fog light is on the voting machines special? no. they're really not. they are hardware and software and we've demonstrated that this can happen. this kind of come if you follow logically this scenario, each one of us should cause us to pause and be concerned about the elections and a processes and these voting machines of the future. >> thank you. so, mr. gilligan, as the entity or the head of the entity that helps enhance the cyber studio scale local governments, you are the ones that administer our elections, what are we going to do about this? >> well, jake -- [inaudible] what i'd like to do too maybe set the context was it was mentioned that i was chief information officer of the air force some time ago, and i'll tell a story that to me helps put in context what did we in the center for internet security do. and that was in the say used to come in annually and to a penetration analysis o

they look over and planto a device and with that i would inserts some malware and kept him from that. he said what can i do to protect myself and i said if all you're interested is keeping out petty criminals, there are things you can y do. but somebody that really knows what he's doing and want some that you have the resources of the nationstate. the pentagon, this is skipping ahead a little bit, but they had a special panel on the cyber warfare c and concluded the inherent fragility of thee infrastructure. the inherent fragility. they report it and looked at the record and the red team was tasked to hack into the command control system. so now they don't talk about prevention much. you don't just leave your door open.y they are talking about detection and resilience. you can detect when somebody is coming and resilience you can repair the damages. you don't want to give up the game, the day are going to get in. the advantage is built on things that are networked and it's back to the tang and rifles. so that's what people are very worried about. >> one of the other things raises the

now, an investigation by the uk national audit office has found that a malware attack that affected partsnational health service in may could have been prevented. more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries were infected with the wannacry ransomware but the nhs in england was amongst the worst hit. here's our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones. it was an attack which for us computers around the world. but the nhs was among the organisations worst affected. and the national audit office says it was ill—prepared. the audit office says it was ill—prepa red. the report audit office says it was ill—prepared. the report details the impact of the worst ever cyber attack on the health service. 80 on health trust across england were affected, one third of the total. it is thought over 19,000 appointments ended up being cancelled. including 139 potential cancer referrals. what planning there had been to deal with a cyber attack just hadn't planning there had been to deal with a cyber attackjust hadn't filter down to the hospitals. some work had been done about it on a national cyber respon

nearly all wi-fi networks are vulnerable to hackers, malware and ransomware.e explain what you need to do. >> security experts discovered a vulnerability to put every wi-fi user at risk. millions of americans defenseless against hackers out to steal personal nervous. ice key reinstallation attack. it's for anyone using wi-fi at home, office and especially in public space. it can only happen if a hacker is in proximity to location. >> there are hundreds of thousands of people on wi-fi network that the penetrate. >> the technology in short allows hackers to trick the device to think it is communicating communicating with the router and it's connecting with the hacker so they can look at everything you do from web browser to viewing e-mails and accessing your photos. if they inject malware they might gain access to your password and credit card numbers. it can be resolved through the software update. microsoft sent a patch to users, google, apple and samsung will roll out fixes in the coming weeks. there are easy things to do to protect yourself be. peer leery ab

power grid with spearfishing companies with malware. piece in the "new york times" this weekend, inside north korea and feeling the drums of war. it gives us an inside look of that nation. he has just returned from there. nick, can you share with the audience what you found in the context of the brinksfield talk from here. >> i think the president is trying to intimidate the north koreans with his talk of war. in fact, it's having the opposite effect. so north koreans everywhere are talking about it and that's because the north korean propaganda is trying to leverage the president's comments with buttressing their own narrative, that they need these nuclear weapons to defend themselves. everywhere you go in the north korean capital, there is a mobilization i had not seen on previous trips, there is talk of war being imminent, and what i found most eerie is there is talk that such a war would not only be survivable, but they would actually emerge victorious. and you don't know whether they believe it. you would hope that their leaders wo

the malware that might be implemented to the extent there's any hope, again, i understand the format we're in might limit the conversation we have, a lot of the malicious activity to this point conducted, we presume and data would indicate by the russians has used off the shelf technology. i guess the question there is how quickly can we pick up on advancements in malware and inculcate them into our preventive measures? that's wide open to which ever one of you wonderful folks would like to address it. >> thank you, sir. if i may, i'll start and provide a bit of broader approach and defer to my expert colleague from the department of energy to anything specific to the grid and electricity. >> i'm subject to a time limit. i apologize but i'll do this quickly. >> yes, sir. generally speaking we already talked about advanced persistent threat here. we think about threats, it's not necessarily speaking advanced, it's just persistent. folks are still -- organizations are still not doing the basic blocking and tackling you think about want to cry or not pet ya, some of those were based on

so i guess the question there is, how quickly can we pick up on the advancements in malware and sort of -- into our preventive measures and that's wide open to which can ever one of you wonderful folks would like to address it. >> if i may, i'll start and provide a bit of a broader approach and defer to my expert colleague from the department of energy on anything specific to the grid and electricity. >> i'm subject to a time limit so i apologize. >> i'll do this quickly. >> yes, sir. >> generally speaking when we've already talked about advanced persistent threat here. when we think about threats it's not necessarily generally speaking advanced. it's just persistent. folks are still, companies -- organizations are still not doing the basic blocking and attacking. some of those explorations were known on open vulnerabilities. the consent of a zero day export it's not the primary exploit that we tend to see in the wild. >> let me interrupt you. and aim big fan of limited government but in this arena because the entire nation hangs in the balance but everything as it relates toll our g

power grid with cyber attacks by companies trying to break in with e-mails with malware. from fire eye. >> they have the ability to infiltrate, but destroy data. >> reporter: north korea attacked sony three years ago. revenge for a mocking kim jong un. now developing the attacks on the u.s. economy. >> now striking in the heartland. >> reporter: intelligence officials tell nbc news it was north korea that pulled off a brazen cyber heist of bangladesh. that federal reserve netting $81 million. this defector tells nbc news it has embedded cyber warriors in china and other neighboring companies. fire eye tells nbc news it has documented cyber attacks against the south korean military and power plants and aviation. all appearing to come from north korea. new fears the hackers could target the u.s. with the devastating attack. >> they want very much to have the ability to shutdown our power grids, our utility systems, our banking, our air traffic control. >> reporter: the industry says north korea has not the energy grid, but on alert for a north korea threat. andrea mitchell,

with cyber attacks against multiple electric companies trying to break in with e-mails contained malware. >> they have the capability to infiltrate but destroy data and systems. >> reporter: north korea attacked sony three years ago. revenge for a hollywood movie mocking kimjong-un. >> one is to strike at the financial sector. >> reporter: it was new york that pulled off a cyber heist at the central bank of bangladesh. netting kim jong-un $81 million. this detector says the regime has embedded 6,000 cyber warriors in china, south korea and other neighboring countries. >> it's documented cyber attacks against south korea's military, its power plants and aviation. all appearing to come from north korea. now new fears those north korean hackers could soon target the u.s. with a devastating attack. >> they want very much to have the capability to shut down our power grids, utility systems, our banking, our air traffic control. >> reporter: tonight the industry says north korea has not yet penetrated the energy grid but are on alert for a growing north korea threat. >>> now to an you are jent

to cover their attacks they installed malware which printed doctored confirmation receipts. the fraud was detected because they actually misspelled the names of the recipients of one of the fraudulent transfers which led to inquiries. another lazarus-connected attack is the wannacry ransomware outbreak that happened in may. this was fairly significant. within the first hours the national health service in the united kingdom was taken down and the spanish telecom provider telephonica was impacted. it was unique and dangerous because it propagated autonomously. it was the first ransomware as a worm that has had global impact. but while wannacry was very good at infecting computers and encrypting data, it was really bad at collecting ransom. because of some fairly simple coding errors the attackers do not appear to have yet collected the ransom that was paid by some of the victims. finally you both mentioned i believe the sony attack. this is probably the best-known lazarus incident out there. it was late 2014 they were hit with malware that disabled networks, destroyed data an

found out which celebrities are most likely to land users on websites that's carrying viruses all malware. if you google celine dion you're in dangerous waters some twelve point nine percent of searches lead to pages that have potential for online trends. in fourth spot is british pop singers a manic formerly of boy band one direction he's looking a bit mean of these days and his search results are downright dangerous if users can end up in trouble in thirteen percent of cases. number three kohli rate jepson her greatest hits call me maybe gone and over a million hits and inspired many parodies chances of catching a virus fly at thirteen point two percent. number two is bruno mars the hugely popular and prolific singing and dancing hawaiian but where if you look him up on the net thirteen point four percent of searches lead to dodgy content. and the number one avril lavigne she hasn't released an album in yet is but it's still very risky to search for her online fourteen point five percent of the searches are hazardous. about with this week's ranking and now or thomas vehicles are the fut

power grid using spearphishing containing malware. the e-mails were sent to multiple u.s.lectric power companies however there's no evidence that the hacking attempts were successful. that reporting comes as a south korean lawmaker revealed yesterday that yesterday north korean hackers reach the computer network of the south korean military and stole a trove of data including contingency plans which reportedly includes the south korean's military quote. >>> let's go to seoul, south korea, and bring in nbc's correspondent matt bradley. the abilities to hack have been widely known. some attribute the sony hacking to north korea. but let's talk a little bit about what this means going forward for pyongyang's ability to conduct cyberwar fire in south korea and here in the u.s. >> thanks. as you mentioned these b-1b flighting they're troubling they've become a routine part of the tit for tat saber rattling that we been watching for the united states. but as you mentioned these cyber attacks are arguably even more troubling because they show cyberware capability conbehalf of the

power grid with cyberattacks, trying to break into with e-mails containing malware. >> they have the capability to infiltrate and destroy data and systems. >> reporter: already attacked hollywood three years ago in revenge for a movie mocking the leader. now same technique against the u.s. economy. >> worries us, the ability of north koreans to strike in the heartland, particularly the financial sector. >> reporter: tell nbc news that north korea pulled off cyber heist of the central bank of bangladesh, netting kim jong-un millions. embedded 6,000 cyberwarriors in china, south korea and other neighboring companies. tells nbc news it's documented cyberattacks against south korea's military, power plants and even aviation, appearing to come from north korea. >> they want to have the capability to shut down power grids, utility systems, banking, air traffic control. >> reporter: tonight the industry says north korea not yet penetrated the energy grid but on alert for growing threat. nbc news washington. >>> urgent wake-up call about the youngest victims of deadly crisis on our nation. o

said a link on the company's website redirected him to another site that encouraged him to download malwareequifax says the issue involved a third-party vendor that it uses to collect performance data on its site. it has since taken that page off line. >>> also, let me give you a check of the markets on wall street. it could end higher. the markets slipped yesterday as earnings season got underway with the results from jpmorgan and citigroup and following data on unemployment and inflation. look for more earnings from bank of america and wells fargo. back to you. >> all right, landon dowdy with cnbc. thanks. >>> neighbors fight back. three communities targeted by racist flyers. how residents are standing up to the hate. >>> racking up wins. the eagles perched atop the nfc east. now the players are spreading brotherly love. when you're a double-dipping pension-padder like steve sweeney, it's important to maintain a certain... lifestyle. that's why sweeney spent over a hundred grand of his campaign funds on high-priced meals and other gifts. we're talking fine cigars, fancy watches, pricey re

charles: more trouble for equity fax, malware was found on their website.ers malicious software pretending to be adobe flash. this is after they revealed a massive data breach indicating 145 million people impacted. the big five tech companies, netflix, another recommendation, record high, three upgrades on that start doing very well. a pickup or delivery direct from the site sending shares higher and going much lower. wells fargo reported there earnings this morning, both fell, there is a billion-dollar charge dealing with last year's scandal with those practices. to the iran deal, the president will say iran is not cooperating and leave it to congress whether to uphold the deal. oliver north will join us on that next. ♪ [fbi agent] you're a brave man, mr. stevens. your testimony will save lives. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible. [hero] i'll take my chances. charles: it is like a party, friday, the weather is great, we didn't take the world cup but that is great, marcus

those systems are very patient records, this malware.focus. we have a large number of organisations ‘ over have a large number of organisations — over 300 hospitals, 8000 gps, all separate organisations with dozens of priorities, of which this is one. although there is more money being invested in cyber security, it's still not enough. the third issue is the lack of clarity. i think it is right to point out that it is not clear who takes full responsibility, whether it is nhs england, the sea qc, nhs digital, a whole host of organisations who will have a finger in the pie, so there needs to be greater clarity and focus. it's not good enough simply to do basics like patching and hygiene. threats are evolving all the time. there are new attack methodology is coming out every day. you have insiders, and there is no patch for that. we have to think about security in a different way. yes, do hygiene and patching, there is no excuse not to, but you also have to have systems like artificial intelligence, things that will detect threats that are

an independent security analyst discovered that equifax's credit report assistant link contained malware. according to the website, visitors were tricked into installing fake adobe flash updates that could affect computers. this evening he can wi saying, equifax can confirm the systems were not compromised and the reported issue did not affect our consumer online dispute portal. the issue involves a third party vendor that equifax uses to collect performance data. that vendor's code running on an equifax rebounds was serving malicious content. since we learned of the issue, the vendor's code was removed from the web page and we've taken the web page offline to conduct further analysis. how is this different from the last attack? this one apparently didn't steal any sensitive data from the agency. but it could compromise your computer. no word yet as to when that web page will be back online. for "nightly business report," i'm andrea day. >>> along the same lines, hyatt said it discovered a credit card breach at 41 of its properties around the world. it is the second breach in two years a

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