Chrome again frantically fixes 0-day vulnerabilities
Google has released a new version of Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux, in which developers are patching two recently discovered 0-day vulnerabilities. According to the company, exploits are already…
FBI removed web shells from vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers without informing owners
The US Department of Justice reported that a court in early April granted the FBI special powers and the bureau removed web shells previously installed by hackers on vulnerable Exchange…
Valve was unable to fix an RCE vulnerability in the Source engine for a long time
A security research group known as the Secret Club claims that Valve's Source engine games are vulnerable to an RCE vulnerability. One researcher says that Valve engineers were informed about…
Dutch shops run out of cheese due to a ransomware attack
Storage and shipping company Bakker Logistiek suffered a ransomware attack and run out of cheese in some Dutch stores. The fact is that Bakker Logistiek is one of the largest…
Rust will become one of the main development languages for Android due to security
This week, Google developers announced that Rust will become one of the main Android development languages as it has greater security and will prevent emergence of memory bugs. For this,…
UseCrypt Messenger developers filed a lawsuit against IS researcher for finding bugs
The developers of the encrypted UseCrypt Messenger have filed a lawsuit against Polish IS researcher Tomasz Zieliński, editor of the blog Informatyk Zakładowy. The fact is that in the fall…
New hCaptcha bypass method may not affect Cloudflare’s security
In March 2021, researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette presented a paper on a new hCaptcha bypass method that replaced reCAPTCHA in Cloudflare and Google last year. Experts…
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…