Expert hacked 70% of Wi-Fi networks in Tel Aviv for research
CyberArk specialist Ido Hoorvitch hacked 70% of Wi-Fi networks in his native Tel Aviv, seeking to prove that home networks are poorly secured and easily compromised. To conduct the experiment,…
Facebook sues Ukrainian who sold data of 178 million users of the social network
The company Facebook has sued the Ukrainian Alexander Solonchenko for collecting data from 178 million Facebook users using scraping, and then putting this information up for sale on a hacker…
After REvil shut down, members of the hack group DarkSide hastily moved $7 million
Information security specialists noticed that at the end of last week, the funds of the DarkSide hack group began to move: the attackers hastily moved about $7 million to other…
Media said that the REvil sites were hacked by law enforcement agencies
Reuters reports that the recent shutdown of the REvil hack group was due to hack of hacker’s sites by law enforcement agencies. Let me remind you that earlier this week…
Microsoft warns of dangerous vulnerability in Surface Pro 3 devices
Microsoft engineers have published a security bulletin on a new vulnerability affecting Surface Pro 3 tablets. The bug could be used by an attacker to inject malicious devices into corporate…
VirusTotal said that almost 95% of ransomware target Windows
VirusTotal specialists presented a large report on the recent ransomware activity and said that almost 95% of ransomware targets Windows. To do this, experts analyzed 80 million samples of ransomware.…
Free decryptor for BlackByte ransomware published
Experts from Trustwave have released a free decryptor utility for victims of the BlackByte ransomware that they can use to recover damaged files. The decryptor already available on GitHub works…
REvil ransomware stopped working again, now after hacking sites
The REvil encryptor stopped working again - all operations were stopped, as an unknown person hacked the group's website, through which hackers accepted payments from victims and "leaked" data stolen…
VPN hosting provider agrees to block access to pirated sites
Hosting provider Sharktech has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by several film companies and agreed to block access to pirated sites. The companies accused the service of not taking…
Microsoft fixes 81 bugs, including vulnerability under attacks
Microsoft has released updates for its products: in total, this month the company fixed 74 bugs (81 if to include vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge), three of which are classified as…
NSA warns of ALPACA attacks that use wildcard certificates
The US National Security Agency issued a security bulletin warning companies not to use wildcard TLS certificates due to their insecurity and the ALPACA TLS attacks. Let me remind you…
Unknown hacked Facebook account of USS Kidd and streamed Age of Empires
Earlier this week, an unknown person hacked into the Facebook account of the American destroyer USS Kidd. On the compromised page, the hacker streamed for several hours how he played…
