Tencent and Chinese police conducted a joint operation against game cheat developers
Chinese police in collaboration with tech giant Tencent have launched a joint operation against cheat developers. 10 developers of 17 different cheating tools in games (including Overwatch and Call of…
Information of 533 million Facebook users leaked to the public
Last weekend it became known that information of more than 500 million Facebook users leaked to the public. On the hacker forum, the data about 533 313 128 Facebook users…
Hackers Bypass Firewalls Using Windows Feature
Hackers now bypass firewalls using a legitimate component of the Windows operating system called Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), installing malware into it. In 2020, hospitals, medical centres and nursing…
Kansas resident charged with hacking water utility computer system
This week, the US Department of Justice indicted Wyatt Travnichek, a 22-year-old Kansas resident, with hacking into the computer system of a local water utility. Authorities say Travnichek hacked into…
Hackers attack Microsoft Exchange servers on behalf of Brian Krebs
The well-known information security expert, journalist and author of the KrebsOnSecurity blog has repeatedly become a target for attacks and mockery of hackers. Now hackers are attack Microsoft Exchange servers…
New vulnerabilities help to bypass protection from Specter on Linux systems
On Monday, March 29th, security researchers uncovered two vulnerabilities in Linux distributions that help to bypass protection from speculative attacks like Specter and extract sensitive information from kernel memory. Vulnerabilities…
Experts have discovered bugs in the 5G protocol that allow tracking location and arranging of DoS attacks
AdaptiveMobile specialists have published a report on new bugs in the 5G protocol, thanks to which it is possible to disable network segments (DoS) and steal user data, including location…
Slack Connect DM new feature drew a barrage of criticism
This week Slack Messenger developers announced a new Connect DM feature that allows sending messages directly to any Slack user in any organization. The developers positioned it as a new…
Attackers using DCCP protocol for DDoS attacks
Akamai has noticed that attackers are using the little-known DCCP network protocol (Datagram Congestion Control Protocol) for DDoS attacks. This internet standard was approved in 2007 and helps monitoring network…
Check Point: Desperate Job Seekers Are Ready To Work For Cybercriminals
CheckPoint experts found that the number of job search ads on the darknet and on hacker forums is growing - job seekers that were desperate to find a job are…
REvil ransomware operators attacked Acer and demand $50,000,000
The REvil ransomware attacked the Taiwanese company Acer (the sixth-largest computer manufacturer in the world, accounting for about 6% of all sales). Cybercriminals are demanding from the manufacturer $50,000,000, which…
Russian who tried to hack Tesla was pleaded guilty
The Russian, who offered a Tesla specialist $1,000,000 for installing malware into the company's network in Reno, Nevada, was pleaded guilty. In August 2020, we talked about the arrest of…
