Google Chrome fixed second 0-day vulnerability in two weeks
Google developers have released Chrome version 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, Mac and Linux, which fixed 10 different problems. The update also includes a patch for a 0-day vulnerability in Google Chrome,…
CERT launched Twitter bot that comes up with names for vulnerabilities
Specialists from the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) have launched a special Twitter bot, Vulnonym, which will “invent” random and maximally neutral names for vulnerabilities that have received CVE identifiers. This…
Google Project Zero discovered a 0-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel
Google Project Zero has discovered a 0-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel (CVE-2020-17087). It has been reported that this bug could be exploited by an attacker with local access to…
Microsoft experts talked about Iranian hackers attacks on security conference participants
Microsoft experts talked that Iranian government hackers have successfully hacked the email accounts of a number of dignitaries and potential attendees to the Munich Security Conference and Think 20 (T20)…
Gridinsoft becomes Google’s information security partner
Gridinsoft LLC is proud to be one of 68 partners of VirusTotal, Google's Information Security Service, in the array of malware scanners. Currently, Gridinsoft is the second information security company…
Microsoft has released an update to remove Adobe Flash from Windows
As you know, very soon, on December 31, 2020, support for Adobe Flash Player will be completely discontinued, after which it will no longer be supported by all modern browsers.…
KashmirBlack botnet is behind attacks on popular CMS including WordPress, Joomla and Drupal
Researchers from Imperva have found that the KashmirBlack botnet, active since the end of 2019, is behind attacks on hundreds of thousands of websites powered by popular CMS, including WordPress,…
Attackers again deceived Apple’s notarization process
In September 2020, I talked about how the Shlayer malware successfully passed the notarization process and was able to run on any Mac running macOS Catalina and newer. Now there…
New T-RAT malware can be controlled via Telegram
G DATA's specialists have published a report on the new T-RAT malware, which is being distributed for only $45. The main feature of the malware is that T-RAT allows controlling…
Google engineers fixed Chrome 0-day vulnerability that was already under attacks
Google engineers have released an updated version of Google Chrome (86.0.4240.111) and warn that they have fixed in browser 0-day vulnerability that has been already under active attacks. The error…
Bughunter stole a Monero exploit from another cybersecurity specialist and received a reward for it
Bleeping Computer reporters drew attention to an interesting case that occurred as part of the bug bounty of the Monero program on HackerOne. Bughunter stole a Monero vulnerability exploit discovered…
P2P botnet Interplanetary Storm accounts more than 9000 devices
Bitdefender experts gave a detailed description of the work of the P2P botnet Interplanetary Storm (aka IPStorm), which uses infected devices as a proxy. According to researchers, the botnet includes…
