New Pay2Key ransomware encrypts corporate networks in just an hour
A number of companies and large corporations in Israel have been targeted by cyberattacks using a new ransomware called Pay2Key. The first attacks were recorded by specialists from Check Point…
The company had to change the dangerous name for sites as it could provoke an XSS attack
The name of the some company turned out to be dangerous for sites that cannot properly process HTML and could provoke an XSS attack. In the past, some organizations have…
Ragnar Locker ransomware attacked Italian beverage manufacturer Gruppo Campari
ZDNet reports that on November 1, 2020, Ragnar Locker ransomware operators attacked the Italian beverage manufacturer Gruppo Campari, which owns such brands as Campari, Cinzano, SKYY vodka, Epsolon, Wild Turkey,…
Ransomwares doesn’t always delete stolen data after paying the ransom
Researchers from Coveware have provided statistics that ransomwares does not always delete the data it have stolen and made recommendations to potential victims. In 2019, Maze ransomware operators began using…
The battle at the cyber polygon The Standoff will be held online
This year, in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, the battle at the cyber polygon The Standoff will take place on November 12-17, 2020 online and on three continents at once.…
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,…
