Hackers Hold New Disney Movie to Ransom

[dealmaker]

• Hackers Hold New Disney Movie to Ransom

Cyber-thieves have stolen one of Walt Disney's unreleased movies and are threatening to release it ahead of the studio's scheduled opening, an act that could knock millions off its box office receipts. The Hollywood Reporter reported that CEO Bob Iger had told staff of the hack but hadn't said which movie was affected. Its next two scheduled releases are the latest in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, and the Pixar sequel Cars 3. It's unclear when the theft happened, but the news emerges at a time when the world will struggle to see anything exceptional in Disney's cyber-security lapses. Quite apart from the WannaCry episode, it's only a few weeks since hackers stole Netflix's new series of Orange is the New Black and leaked it on to The Pirate Bay. Fortune

 

[java]

Hackers have poor taste?

 

[Pekelo]

Hackers have poor taste?

It is irony, pirating a Pirates movie. By the way why would they care about the quality? They care about the value only...

 

[Michael J. Fletcher]

Cyber-security is super important today.

 

[dealmaker]

Proofpoint uncovers new cyberattack using stolen NSA tools
Cybersecurity company Proofpoint, which helped slow the sweeping global ransomware attack WannaCry, has now discovered a much more insidious, profitable, and potentially widespread cyberattack called Adylkuzz, which stealthily recruits infected computers into a network of cryptocurrency miners that stuff the hackers’ digital wallets full of a secretive unit of exchange called Monero, Proofpoint says. (Xconomy)

 

[java]

I'd feel a lot better if the head of security was Amish. Preventing is nice, but surviving is a necessity. The disaster plan should include horses and candles.

 

[dealmaker]

Evidence ties WCry ransomware worm to prolific hacking group
Researchers have found more digital fingerprints tying this month's WCry ransomware worm to the same prolific hacking group that attacked Sony Pictures in 2014 and the Bangladesh Central Bank last year. Last week, a researcher at Google identified identical code found in a WCry sample from February and an early 2015 version of Contopee, a malicious backdoor used by Lazarus Group, a hacking team that has been operating since at least 2011. (Ars Technica)