Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City

The Hacker News Daily Updates [Newsletter]( [cover]( [Gaining Insights Across Cloud and Hybrid Environments]( At Splunk, we make it easy for agencies to turn mountains of machine data in their Amazon Web Services (AWS) and hybrid environments into valuable business, operational and security insights that improve their businesses. [Download Now]( Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jul 26, 2019 [Just Opening A Document in LibreOffice Can Hack Your Computer (Unpatched)]( Are you using LibreOffice? You should be extra careful about what document files you open using the LibreOffice software over the next few days. That's because LibreOffice contains a severe unpatched code execution vulnerability that could sneak malware into your system as soon as you open a ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City]( Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city's power company got attacked by a ransomware virus. City Power, the company responsible for powering South Africa's financial capital Johannesburg, confirmed Thursday on ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Silk Road Admin Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison On Drug Trafficking Charges]( An Irish national has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators who helped run now-defunct dark web marketplace "Silk Road." Gary Davis, 31, of Wicklow, Ireland, was known as 'Libertas' on the Silk Road website, then-largest underground ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Your Android Phone Can Get Hacked Just By Playing This Video]( Are you using an Android device? Beware! You should be more careful while playing a video on your smartphone—downloaded anywhere from the Internet or received through email. That's because, a specially crafted innocuous-looking video file can compromise your Android smartphone—thanks to a ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Popular Malware Families Using 'Process Doppelgänging' to Evade Detection]( The fileless code injection technique called Process Doppelgänging is actively being used by not just one or two but a large number of malware families in the wild, a new report shared with The Hacker News revealed. Discovered in late 2017, Process Doppelgänging is a fileless variation of Process ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [cover]( [Gaining Insights Across Cloud and Hybrid Environments]( At Splunk, we make it easy for agencies to turn mountains of machine data in their Amazon Web Services (AWS) and hybrid environments into valuable business, operational and security insights that improve their businesses. [Download Now]( Sponsored This email was sent to {EMAIL}. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please [click here](. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com [Unsubscribe]( The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India