On December 19, the United States officially lifted a 3-year moratorium on the development of deadly viruses. The National Institutes of Health will again receive funds to continue research aimed at creating substances that can quickly infect the human body and lead to death, according to The New York Times. A task…
A federal expert committee on Wednesday recommended a new and more effective shingles vaccine to protect those in their 50s and older, The Washington Post writes. The Advisory Committee also stated that the new Shingrix vaccine would be preferred over the existing Zostavax vaccine as it ...
Ukrainian law enforcement officers detained a 51-year-old resident of the city of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region on suspicion of spreading the Petya.A virus. This was reported by the press service of the National Police of Ukraine in the Chernihiv region. The attacker, who uploaded free videos about the virus and distributed malware to the Internet, was installed by operatives ...
In Las Vegas, the FBI arrested 23-year-old British programmer Markus Hutchins, who stopped the spread of the WannaCry ransomware virus in May 2017. According to Reuters, Hutchins attended a computer security conference in Nevada in late July. At the National Cybersecurity Center ...
Specialists from the American antivirus corporation Malwarebytes have discovered a virus that spreads to computers with the Macintosh operating system. It has existed for at least three years, writes Buro. The virus is called FruitFly (fruit fly), it was discovered in January 2017. The malware was found on several...
Russian programmer Mark Vartanyan was sentenced to 5 years in prison for cyber fraud by the Atlanta federal court. The Associated Press reports. In November 2016, Vartanyan was extradited from Norway. He was charged with computer fraud. Mark Vartanyan, also known ...
Doctors fear the wet weather has created favorable breeding conditions for mosquitoes that can carry diseases such as West Nile virus, Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and others. “It is too early to tell whether these viruses will continue to grow, but the rainy weather has created...
A new ransomware virus called Petya.A on Tuesday massively attacked computers of large organizations in many countries, including the United States. Despite the fact that Petya did not infect as many computers as the WannaCry virus, it is more dangerous and can cause ...
The Petya.A ransomware virus has infected hundreds of companies and government agencies around the world. Organizations of Ukraine, Russia, Spain, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, India and other states were attacked, writes TJ. According to Kaspersky Lab employee Kostin Raiu, the scale of the attack is smaller than during the activity ...
Legionnaires' disease, also called Legionnaires' disease or Pittsburgh pneumonia, is an acute infectious disease caused by various types of microorganisms belonging to the Legionella genus. Just over the past weekend, new patients were found in Florida, Las Vegas and New York,...