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Auto Parts Manufacturer Attacked by Three Different Ransomware in Two weeks

Sophos experts told about an interesting case when an unnamed auto parts manufacturer was attacked by three different ransomware in…

Microsoft fixes DogWalk bug as part of Patch Tuesday

Microsoft fixed more than 120 vulnerabilities this month, including the DogWalk bug, as part of the traditional “Update Tuesday”. Indeed,…

IS Specialists Discovered a New Version of Malware from Russian Hackers LOLI Stealer

Cyble Research Labs specialists found a sample of malware in the wild, which turned out to be an updated version…

Slack Is Resetting User Passwords Due to a Bug

Slack developers have notified about 0.5% of users that they are forcibly resetting their passwords due to a bug. They…

Twilio Falls Victim To Phishing Attack

Twilio, a tech giant from San Francisco, became a victim of a phishing scam, resulting in the exposure of consumers’…

Hacker patches Citrix servers

Unknown hacker patches vulnerable Citrix servers

Recently, in the public domain appeared exploits for the critical vulnerability CVE-2019-19781, earlier found in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway). Now it was…

Greta Thunberg in phishing campaigns

Greta Thunberg became the most popular character in phishing campaigns

Check Point analysts prepared a traditional monthly report on the most active threats, the Global Threat Index. Greta Thunberg and Christmas became the most popular topics in spamming and phishing…

Windows most dangerous vulnerability

IS specialist introduced a PoC exploit for one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities in Windows

The day after the release of the fix for one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities in the history of Windows, security researcher Saleem Rashid demonstrated how it can be used…

Farewell Windows 7 updates

Microsoft released farewell updates for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

On January 14, 2020, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 for PCs of private users, and at the same time finally finished support of the mobile Windows 10 Mobile (1709), but…

Fancy Bear attacked Burisma

Fancy Bear Attacked Ukrainian Oil And Gas Burisma Company

Fancy Bear, also known as APT28, orchestrated an attack on Burisma. Hackers linked to Russian intelligence executed a phishing campaign targeting employees of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma…

Cable Haunt Threats Broadcom

Cable Haunt Vulnerability Threats Millions of Modems with Broadcom Chips

Danish researchers have published a report on the Cable Haunt vulnerability that threats millions of cable modem with Broadcom chips. According to experts, the problem threatens more than 200 million…

Researcher remotely hacked iPhone

Researcher remotely hacked iPhone using only one vulnerability

Researcher in a few minutes remotely hacked iPhone using only Apple ID and exploiting only the CVE-2019-8641 vulnerability, due to which he gained access to the user’s accounts and passwords…

Researchers hacked TikTok app

Researchers hacked TikTok app via SMS

Check Point experts found many issues in one of the world’s most popular applications, TikTok. Recently researchers hacked TikTok app using sms. TikTok is available in more than 150 markets,…

Homeland Security and Iran cyberattacks

US Homeland Security warns of possible cyberattacks by Iran

Homeland Security USA issued a warning about possible acts of terrorism and cyberattacks by Iran in response to the assassination of General Kassem Suleimani, the head of the Quds special…

Shitcoin Wallet for Google Chrome

Shitcoin Wallet for Google Chrome steals cryptocurrency passwords and keys

One of the extensions for Google Chrome, Shitcoin Wallet injects a special JavaScript code into web pages. Using this code, attackers steal passwords and private keys from cryptocurrency wallets and…

Illegal way to support Windows 7

My Digital Life forum community has found an illegal way to extend support for Windows 7

The community of the My Digital Life online forum has found an illegal way to extend support for Windows 7: bypass Microsoft’s restrictions and allow the installation of Windows 7…

Emotet topped the threat rating

Emotet topped the rating of the most common threats in 2022

Any.Run, interactive service for automated malware analysis has compiled a list of the ten most common threats downloaded to this platform. The Trojan Emotet topped this 2019 threat rating. The…