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MSIL/Microsoft.Bing.A Detection (BingWallpaper.exe)
A lot of users on different forums complain about MSIL/Microsoft.Bing.A detection in ESET antivirus. This detection points to BingWallpaper.exe file…
Ukrainian Cyber Police and Europol Arrested Fraudsters Involved in Fake Investments
The Ukrainian cyber police and Europol have arrested five members of an international network of fraudsters, whose income is estimated…
KmsdBot malware combines DDoS-attacks and coin mining
A new malware, called KmsdBot, strikes user devices. The Akamai SIRT has discovered a new malware that uses the SSH…
Why Does My PC Keep Freezing and How to Fix It
You have probably at least once encountered where your PC suddenly freezes while working on a project. Whether it’s a…
Dangers of Paypal Scams: How To Protect Yourself from Paypal Email Scams
PayPal has a reputation for being a safe and easy way to send and receive money. But no payment system…
Hackers attacked Swiss company Stadler that produces trains
Hackers attacked the company Stadler. A well-known Swiss train manufacturer reported about a cyberattack, during which attackers could steal data of the company and its employees. Stadler manufactures a wide…
For eight years, the Cereals botnet existed for only one purpose: it downloaded anime
The Cereals IoT botnet appeared in 2012, and reached its peak in 2015, when there were about 10,000 infected devices. All these eight years, the Cereals botnet only downloaded anime…
Europe’s largest private hospital operator Fresenius attacked with Snake ransomware
Fresenius, Europe’s largest private hospital operator and major provider of products and services for dialysis, was affected during Snake ransomware cyberattack. According to KrebsOnSecurity sources, the incident disrupted some systems,…
Techno giant Jio disclosed data of people tested for COVID-19
Recently, India’s technology giant Jio, partly acquired by Facebook, has disclosed the confidential data of people, tested for COVID-19. In March of this year, Jio released a service that allows…
Hackers Attacked Ghost Blogging Platform and LineageOS Servers Using Salt Vulnerabilities
According to the development team of the Ghost blogging platform, hackers attacked it using the Authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-11651) and directory bypass (CVE-2020-11652) vulnerabilities in Salt in order to gain…
Trump declared a state of emergency due to cyberattacks on US energy systems
Last Friday, President Trump declared a state of emergency in the country due to cyberattacks on the US energy system. Now he is taking steps to protect the energy system…
IS researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in GitLab
IS researcher William Bowling made $20,000 by discovering a critical vulnerability in GitLab. The bug allowed achieving the execution of arbitrary code or stealing confidential data from the server. Bowling…
Google experts talked about vulnerabilities in Apple operating systems
Google Project Zero specialists discovered and described many vulnerabilities in Apple’s operating systems. For example, they are part of the Image I/O framework, which is used for parsing images and…
Grandoreiro Banker Spreads Through Fake Coronavirus Videos
ESET analysts warned about surge in the activity of the banking Trojan Grandoreiro amid COVID-19 pandemic. The bunker is distributed through fake coronavirus videos. Experts report that Grandoreiro, previously written…
End of an era: Twitter disabled SMS in most countries
Twitter said it disabled option of using SMS with the text of new tweets last week due to security issues. The function was disabled in all countries, except for “several”…
Sindhi Language Symbols Disable iPhone and iPad
Users found that a messages with certain characters in the Sindhi language symbols (used primarily in India and Pakistan) disable OS 13.4.1 and crash the iPhone and iPad. A “text…
Criminals hacked more than 60 ad servers to distribute malware
Confiant experts found that in the past nine months (since August 2019), unknown criminals have hacked more than 60 ad servers in order to inject their malicious ads onto a…