Ransomware Revenues Dropped by 40% because Victims Refuse to pay
Ransomware revenue (from ransomware attacks) has fallen from $765.6 million in 2021 to $456.8 million in 2022, according to Chainalysis blockchain analysts. Experts attribute this drop of more than 40%…
Cybersecurity Specialists Advise Players Not to Enter Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Online due to a Dangerous Bug
Players of the PC version of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Online are alarming as a vulnerability has been discovered in the game that can lead to the loss of game…
Attackers Can Use GitHub Codespaces to Host and Deliver Malware
Trend Micro reports that the GitHub Codespaces cloud development environment, available to the public use since November 2022, can be used to store and deliver malware, as well as malicious…
Google Search Malvertising: Fake Ads of Free Programs in Google Ads
Google Search malvertising is an unpleasant phenomenon of malicious advertisements in search engine results. Ads up there are called to make it easier to find users interested in specific queries,…
Russian Cybercriminals Seek Access to OpenAI ChatGPT
Check Point analysts have noticed that Russian-speaking hacker forums are actively discussing access to bypass geo-blocking, due to which the OpenAI ChatGPT language model is not available in Russia. We…
Goose Goose Duck Game Servers Are DDoS-Attacked Every Day
The free social detective Goose Goose Duck, which recently broke the Among Us record for the number of users simultaneously in the game, is constantly under DDoS attacks. The developers…
Exploits for Vulnerabilities in Three Popular WordPress Plugins Appeared on the Network
Three popular WordPress plugins, with tens of thousands of active installations, at once turned out to have critical SQL injection vulnerabilities. In addition, PoC exploits for these bugs are now…
Microsoft’s VALL-E AI Is Able to Imitate a Human Voice in a Three-Second Pattern
Microsoft engineers have introduced an AI (artificial intelligence) model for text-to-speech called VALL-E. It is able to imitate a human voice, relying only on a three-second sound sample. The developers…
Was Your Apple ID Hacked? Here’s How To Secure Your Account
Apple's services and products are only accessible through their walled garden. Users can only access the company's products and services with an Apple ID. If someone figures out your Apple…
Hackers Bypass CAPTCHA on GitHub to Automate Account Creation
The South African hack group Automated Libra is looking for new approaches to use the resources of cloud platforms for cryptocurrency mining: hackers bypass CAPTCHA on GitHub. Let me remind…
Hackers compromised Slack private GitHub repositories
On December 31, while everyone was celebrating the New Year, Salesforce, the company behind the development of the corporate Slack messenger, published a message about the incident of compromising Slack…
Windows 7 Extended Security Update Program cancelled
On January 8, 2023, Microsoft announced the cancellation of the ESU program for Windows 7. The OS version released back in 2009 now lost all the support from its developer.…
