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New hacker attack with email distribution on behalf of the National Revenue Agency, informs bTV.

Officials advise that people should in no case open the attachments.

Thousands of letters with information on changed deadlines for filing tax returns were sent on 5th and 6th September. They declare that there have been innovations in laws and fines of up to BGN 6000.

Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab has filed a lawsuit against US software giant Microsoft over alleged abuse of its dominant position and unfair competition in the market of operation systems in the EU.

The Russian company applied to the European Commission and Germany's Federal Cartel Office.

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The source for WannaCry ransomware, which has spread to 150 countries, may be Pyongyang or those trying to frame it, security analysts say, pointing to code similarities between the virus and a malware attributed to alleged hackers from North Korea.

Governments and computer experts girded on May 15 for a possible worsening of the global cyberattack that has hit more than 150 countries, as Microsoft warned against stockpiling vulnerabilities like the one at the heart of the crisis.

The “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack by registering a garbled domain name hidden in the malware has warned the attack could be rebooted.

A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has infected tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries, disrupting Britain's health system and global shipper FedEx.

A ransomware virus is spreading aggressively around the globe, with over 100,000 computers in 99 countries having been targeted, according to the latest data. The virus infects computer files and then demands bitcoins to unblock them.

Two senior FSB officers and a high-level manager of Russia’s leading cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab are facing official charges of treason in the interests of the US, a lawyer representing one of the defendants has confirmed to Interfax.

A top Microsoft representative has expressed optimism about Turkey's economy, while underlining the importance of improving the institutional capability of institutions that use technology in the country amid a rapid rise in cybersecurity risks.

Director of the CERT-RO National Computer Security Incident Response Team Augustin Jianu believes Romania is faring well in terms of human resources for the protection of personal data stored with information systems, but it is facing a deficit of specific legislation.