Japanese Warned To Secure Wi-Fi Network

A Japanese agency has warned Japanese to secure their Wi-Fi network after a man was arrested on suspicion of using an unsecured Wi-Fi network for criminal activities. It is a 30-year-old Japanese man who must also stand trial for theft of 16 million yen (114,000 euros), and he passed to steal login details for online banking managed to loot.

Also, the man would have spread malware to gain access to others computers. A day after the arrest sent the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) a warning that Japanese people are called to secure their Wi-Fi network. According Yuichi Nozawa IPA walk people whose Wi-Fi network is hacked risk to be the prime suspect in cybercrime investigations of the police.

According Nozawa identifies the police sometimes suspects on the basis of used access points, so let him facing the Japan Times know. Research would show that in 2014 more than half of the households in Japan had unprotected Wi-Fi network or did not know whether this was set.

SONY - Malware Analysis

The malware was used recently against Sony is the same " destructive "malware that the FBI this week warned. Reported that the Japanese anti-virus company Trend Micro that a copy of the malware got hold. The main part of the malware is a collection of user names and passwords to be logged on shared network drives.

Once active users remove the malware files and files connected network drives and stops the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service. Then the malware two hour idle and then restart the system. Another part of the malware puts a .bmp file on the computer that contains the message "Hacked by #GOP". This is the same image that would have appeared on the computers from Sony. Trend Micro therefore proposes that the malware that was used against Sony.

Here is Deep Analysis of Destructive Malware By Some Security Research Companies:

Trend Mirco
Kaspersky
Symantec
BlueCoat

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ESET & Facebook Works Together To Fight Against Malware

To protect users from malware, Facebook has signed a cooperation agreement with ESET's online virus scanner and will of the Slovak anti-virus company now offer to users. The online virus scanner is to start directly from Facebook.

"We have cooperated with ESET to add their security software directly to our detection and prevention systems, just as we did earlier this year with the other providers," says Facebook engineer Chetan Gowda. Facebook previously signed a similar agreement with the Finnish F-Secure and Japanese Trend Micro online virus scanners which were already integrated into Facebook.

If the computer of a Facebook user behaves erratically and shows signs of a malware infection, a message appears that an online virus scan is offered. Then, the user can perform the scan, the results and remove malware without the need to first log out of Facebook.

According Gowda help the three anti-virus companies in this way in blocking malicious links and malicious websites in the news feeds and messages from the 1.35 billion Facebook users. Users often miss the most basic security to prevent infection and remove, observes the engineer on.