Security
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At a glance
Stuxnet
Ever heard of “Operation Olympic Games” in terms of a cyber attack? Behind this rather friendly name lurks one of the most complex, dangerous and targeted piece of malware ever discovered, causing noticeable harm in real life: Stuxnet.
Because not only criminals hack themselves into computers – also nation states attack each other via software: The worm strategically sabotaged the centrifuges of the Iranian uranium enrichment facility and is the reason why nations today are challenged to not only...
3 weeks
WannaCry
In our second episode, we are talking about one of the most notable ransomware attacks in history, hitting 200.000 computers across 150 countries and around 8 billion dollars in damages, to be precise. We are talking about Wannacry.
The self-propagating code is famous in the cyber world because it showed that if you start something on the worldwide Internet, it will affect everybody. WannaCry is the reason we learned to keep our systems updated and have backups.
Rüdiger Peusquens, Head of Cyber Defense...
8 weeks
Emotet
The first episode of the new “Digital Crime” podcast revolves around the most well developed malware, or damaging software, that ever existed: Emotet.
Since 2014 the “Emotet Gang” has made millions of dollars by hacking computers through Spam Mails, being the perfect example of how cybercrime gangs run their operations like professional businesses. Nobody knows who is behind those attacks – but Cyber Security experts are sure, that we haven’t seen the last of Emotet.
In this episode Thomas Barabosch...
9 weeks
