millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962 SUNDAY millenniumPUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 3, ISSUE 129 | Sunday, 14 May, 2017 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 post NO HALF TRUTHS CITY PAGE 3 NATION PAGE 4 FILM PAGE 16 ELECTIONS IN SEVEN ‘MISA LAUNDERED MONEY TO I CAME UP WITH A DEFINITE IDEA FOR SARKAR MUNICIPALITIES TODAY BUY A FARMHOUSE IN DELHI’ 3 ABOUT 18 MONTHS TO 2 YEARS AGO: RGV Bajrang Punia bags gold, RANSOMWARE INFECTS COMPUTERS AND RESTRICTS USERS’ ACCESS UNTIL RANSOM IS PAID Sarita silver at Asian Wrestling Championship ‘Shadow Brokers’ stole US CHANDRABOLI MITRA Digital future? 100 nations NSA hack tool, put it online NEW DELHI: Bajrang Punia provided India NEW DELHI: The seeds of the enemy states around the world. its first gold medal as he posted a come-from- massive cyber attack that has “Shadow Brokers” in April behind victory over Seungchul Lee of Korea in affected almost 100 countries claimed to have stolen this men’s 65kg freestyle on the penultimate day of including India were sown by hacking tool and dumped it the Asian Wrestling Championship here on Sat- suffer huge cyber-attack a mysterious hacking group, online. The hacking group first urday. Sarita, meanwhile, bagged a silver medal “Shadow Brokers”, in April appeared in August last year in women’s 58kg category. MPOST BUREAU when it leaked a hacking tool when it leaked a list of NSA After registering a fabulous 6-2 win, Bajrang HK researcher called “Eternal Blue” developed hacking tools. There were celebrated by taking a victory lap with the tri- SEATTLE/ NEW DELHI: Nearly by the US National Security apprehensions that the leak colour on his shoulders. In his gold medal bout, 100 countries, including India, were finds ‘kill switch’ Agency (NSA). Interestingly, came from an insider gone the 23-year-old Indian conceded two points in hit by a massive cyber attack which the same tool is believed to rogue but later reports sug- the opening half to lag behind 0-2 at the break. experts said was first reported HONG KONG: A cybersecurity have been used by another gested that the elite hacking However, Bajrang made a strong comeback in from Sweden, Britain and France, researcher appears to have dis- anonymous hacking group to group was tied to the Russian the second half as he did not allow his rival US media outlets reported. An covered a “kill switch” that can gain remote access to comput- government and was respon- from Korea to earn any more points. increase in activity of the malware prevent the spread of the Wanna- ers that disrupted hospitals sible for leaking sensitive data He first pushed his opponent out of the mat was noticedon Friday, security soft- Cry ransomware — for now. The across England. “It’s likely that from NSA many times. to take one point and then took the Korean ware company Avast reported, add- researcher, tweeting as @Mal- regular online criminals simply The US has never accepted down for two more to lead 3-2. From there on, ing that it “quickly escalated into a wareTechBlog, said the discovery used the information that the that the tools leaked by Bajrang displayed an attacking game and never massive spreading”. was accidental, but that register- ‘Shadow Brokers’ put on the “Shadow Brokers” belonged let his rival come back into the contest. He sub- Within hours, over 75,000 ing a domain name used by the internet and thought ‘how can to the NSA or any other US- sequently added three more points to his credit attacks have been detected world- Krishna, Guntur, Visakhatpatnam it. It demands users pay $300 worth malware stops it from spread- we monetise this’,” telegraph. based intelligence agency but to wrap up the bout in style. wide, the company said. Mean- and Srikakulam districts were of cryptocurrency Bitcoin to ing. “Essentially they relied on co.uk quoted Graham Cluley, according to a New York Times London Olympics medallist wrestler Yoges- while, the MalwareTech tracker affected. retrieve their files, though it warns a domain not being registered a computer security expert, as report, former intelligence offi- hwar Dutt was present at the gallery to wit- detected over 100,000 infected sys- The most disruptive attacks that the payment will be raised after and by registering it, we stopped saying on Saturday. cials have said that the tools ness his prodigy win the gold medal. “I asked tems over the past 24 hours. were reported in the UK, where a certain amount of time. The mal- their malware spreading,” @Mal- The report quoted a state- appeared to come from the him (Bajrang) to attack all the time and not be Security researchers with hospitals and clinics were forced ware spreads through email. wareTechBlog told AFP in a pri- ment from “Shadow Brokers”, NSA’s “Tailored Access Oper- defensive and that paid dividends. Winning a Kaspersky Lab have recorded more to turn away patients after losing Individuals and organisations vate message on Twitter. The issued to a specialist technol- ations” unit, which infiltrates gold medal in the Asian Championships is a than 45,000 attacks in 99 coun- access to computers. The US Com- are discouraged from paying the researcher warned, however, that ogy website in December, as foreign computer networks. really big thing,” Dutt said. tries, including the the UK, Russia, puter Emergency Readiness Team ransom, as this does not guarantee people “need to update their sys- saying: “The ‘Shadow Brokers’ The strange relation Bajrang earlier made the final of his weight Ukraine, India, China, Italy, and (USCRT) under the Department access will be restored, the USCERT tems ASAP” to avoid attack. “The is not being irresponsible crim- between “Shadow Brokers” and division with a hard-fought 3-2 victory over Egypt. In Spain, major companies of Homeland Security said it has said. According to it, ransomware crisis isn’t over, they can always inals. The ‘Shadow Brokers’ is the NSA has surfaced sporadi- Kukgwang Kim in the semifinal round. Put- including telecommunications firm received multiple reports of Wann- spreads easily when it encounters change the code and try again,” opportunists. The ‘Shadow cally since last year when the ting up a brilliant show on his way to the gold Telefonica were infected. aCry ransomware infections in unpatched or outdated software. @MalwareTechBlog said. AGENCIES Brokers’ is giving ‘responsible group came to light. “Shadow medal round, Bajrang got the better of last edi- In India, a section of computers many countries around the world. A Microsoft spokeswoman said parties’ opportunity to mak- Brokers” also released a cache tion’s Asian Championship gold-medallist Mei- of Andhra Pradesh’s police depart- The ransomware is a type of that the company was aware of the to be behind the attacks encrypts ing things right.” “Eternal Blue” of information detailing how sam Nassiri of Iran 7-5 in the quarterfinal after ments were also affected during the malicious software that infects a reports and was looking into the data on infected computers and was developed by NSA as a the NSA accessed private beating Uzbek wrestler Sirojiddin Hasanov 4-3 global cyber attack on Friday. Com- computer and restricts users’ access situation. According to The Wall essentially holds it for ransom. weapon to gain access to com- and public networks of some in the qualification round. However, gold medal puters in 18 police units in Chittoor, to it until a ransom is paid to unlock Street Journal, the malware believed puters used by terrorists and countries. AGENCIES eluded Indian women wrestlers even as this was their best ever performance at the Asian Cham- INDIAN ARMY RETALIATES ‘STRONGLY AND EFFECTIVELY’ pionship with six medals, including four silver PTI Woman says ‘No’ to India conducts joint and two bronze. Pak shelling kills 2 civilians Pak knows it can't marriage proposal, hydrographic survey fight war against gangraped, murdered of Sri Lanka coast in J&K, hundreds evacuated India and win JAMMU: Pakistani troops SONIPAT: A 23-year-old NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy has car- again pounded Nowshera area PRAKASH JAVADEKAR woman was abducted, gang- ried out a joint hydrographic survey of of Jammu and Kashmir near raped and her brutally muti- Sri Lanka’s Weligama Bay and southern the Line of Control (LoC) with lated body dumped at a place coast, in a reflection of the growing coop- mortars on Saturday, killing where dogs bit off it, following eration between navies of the two countries. two civilians and injuring three In today’s which the police have arrested Hydrographic survey data for more than and forcing evacuation of hun- two men, including one who 7,000 nautical miles was collected during a dreds of people from there. The paper they claimed was her “jilted two-month-long exercise and details of the Indian Army said it was retaliat- lover”. The horrifying crime, survey were handed over to the Sri Lankan ing “strongly and effectively” to ... which occurred just days Navy at a ceremony in Colombo on Friday. the Pakistani Army’s indiscrim- after the Supreme Court held Interestingly, Sri Lanka had on Wednes- inate firing of small arms, auto- CITY that the culprits in the ‘Nirb- “Two persons, Sumit and day rejected China’s request for its subma- matic weapons and 82 mm and haya’ gang rape case will hang, Vikas, have been arrested in rine to dock at Colombo next week, after a 120 mm mortars which started RAIN, STORMS LEAVE FOUR DEAD 3 prompted Congress chief Sonia this connection,” Malik said similar visit in 2014 triggered strong pro- at 7.15 am.