1 Jun 2023

Tech: Ransoms drop, DDoS attacks hit gaming industry

From Nine To Noon, 11:07 am on 1 June 2023

Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about the big drop in earnings cyber-crime gangs are experiencing as victims refuse to pay ransomware demands.

A new botnet called Dark Frost has been making DDoS attacks against the gaming industry - it's a new way to make money from an industry now bigger than Hollywood.

A new attack makes it possible to get around Android's fingerprint lock - but it has some flaws.

And Linux routers in Japan are the target of a new remote access trojan called GobRat - could New Zealand be vulnerable to attack because of where most of our routers are made?

04 December 2019, Hessen, Darmstadt: IT security scientists are training in the "Cyber Range" room in the new "Athene" cyber security centre how infiltrated blackmail programs ("Ransomware") can be rendered harmless.

Photo: AFP