DuckDuckGo downgraded Russian state media in search results
The founder and head of DuckDuckGo, Gabriel Weinberg, said that the search engine would lower Russian media and sites that spread "Russian propaganda" in search results. Some were dissatisfied with…
About 30% of critical vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins remain unpatched
Patchstack analysts have released a report on security and critical vulnerabilities in WordPress in 2021. Unfortunately, the picture turned out to be depressing, for example, it turned out that 29%…
Akamai Researchers Say DDoS Attacks Amplification for 4 Billion Times
This week, Akamai experts discovered a unique DDoS amplification vector that can achieve a 4.3 billion to one attack repelling or amplification ratio. The new attack vector is based on…
Hacker groups split up: some of them support Russia, others Ukraine
Amid the backdrop of the barbaric invasion of the Russian army into the territory of Ukraine, hacker groups split into two camps: some declared that they supported the actions of…
Anonymous hackers declared war on the Russian government
A Twitter account associated with the Anonymous hacktivist movement reported that hackers are declaring war on the Russian government over Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Shortly thereafter, the group claimed responsibility…
Researchers found a Hive ransomware master key via cryptographic vulnerability
A group of South Korean researchers from Kunming University published a report detailing how they found the Hive ransomware master key and a method to recover files encrypted with it.…
Firefox 100 and Chrome 100 may have user-agent issues
Mozilla developers have warned that sites may experience problems with the upcoming versions of Firefox 100 and Chrome 100 (released May 3 and March 29, 2022). The fact is that…
Google Offers up to $91,000 for Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities
Google has almost doubled its rewards for vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and kCTF. The reward can now be up to $91,337. In November last…
Google analysts noticed that software vendors began to fix Zero-day vulnerabilities faster
Google Project Zero specialists presented a report according to which software vendors began to fix 0-day vulnerabilities faster. For example, last year organizations needed less time than in previous years…
Decryption keys for Maze, Egregor and Sekhmet ransomware were posted on the Bleeping Computer forum
The Bleeping Computer forum published master keys for decrypting data affected by Maze, Egregor and Sekhmet ransomware attacks. Apparently, the keys were "leaked" by one of the developers of the…
Experts linked BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware to BlackMatter and DarkSide groups
A Recorded Future analyst interviewed a member of the hack group behind the BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware, who confirmed that ALPHV is linked to notorious groups such as BlackMatter and DarkSide.…
Chinese hackers use Zimbra 0-day vulnerability to hack European media and authorities
Security firm Volexity has warned that a previously unknown Chinese hack group is exploiting a 0-day vulnerability in Zimbra's collaborative software. According to official statistics, more than 200,000 enterprises in…
