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BreachForums is down. Things got worse?

BreachForums is down. Things got worse?

Recently, one of BreachForums administrators nicknamed PomPomPurin was arrested by the FBI. That event took place on March 17, 2023,…

GPT-4 Tricked a Person into Solving a CAPTCHA for Them by Pretending to Be Visually Impaired

Prior to the launch of GPT-4 earlier this week, the researchers ran a lot of tests, such as whether the…

New Microsoft SmartScreen Bypass Technique Causes Concerns

Microsoft SmartScreen proved to be an effective way of approving the legitimacy of the application – by checking one’s certificate.…

The FBI Said That the Damage from Cyberattacks in 2022 Exceeded $10 Billion

The FBI’s Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IC3) has released its annual 2022 Internet Crime and Cyber Attack Damage Report. During…

North Korean Hackers Attack Cybersecurity Specialists by Offering Them Jobs via LinkedIn

Mandiant experts noticed that North Korean hackers have focused their attention and attacks on information security specialists. Attackers try to…

North Korean Hackers Attack Cybersecurity Specialists by Offering Them Jobs via LinkedIn

North Korean Hackers Attack Cybersecurity Specialists by Offering Them Jobs via LinkedIn

Mandiant experts noticed that North Korean hackers have focused their attention and attacks on information security specialists. Attackers try to infect researchers with malware in the hope of infiltrating the…

Incoming Silicon Valley Bank Related Scams

Incoming Silicon Valley Bank Related Scams

Mind-bending globe-scale events always attract a lot of attention. Newsmakers, politicians and simple rubbernecks pay a lot of attention to such a loud events, and a recent Silicon Valley Bank…

Emotet Has Resumed Activity after a Three-Month Break

Emotet Has Resumed Activity after a Three-Month Break

Experts noticed that this week Emotet resumed its activity and after a three-month “rest” began to send malicious spam again. So far, information security specialists have not found any additional…

Acronis Breached, Internal Data Leaked

Acronis Breached, Internal Data Leaked

Acronis, a Swiss-based information technology company that provides file recovery services for hacked companies was breached earlier this month. The breach became public on March 9, 2023, when a hacker…

Researcher Publishes RCE Exploit for Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Word

Researcher Publishes RCE Exploit for Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Word

A proof-of-concept exploit for the CVE-2023-21716 vulnerability in a Microsoft Office product, namely Microsoft Word, has emerged online. This issue has been rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS…

Bing Chatbot Could Be a Convincing Scammer, Researchers Say

Bing Chatbot Could Be a Convincing Scammer, Researchers Say

Security researchers have noticed that by using text prompts embedded in web pages, hackers can force Bing’s AI chatbot to ask for personal information from users, turning the bot into…

New Acer Breach Exposes 160GB of Data

New Acer Breach Exposes 160GB of Data

Companies tend to hide the case of a cybersecurity breach – for certain reasons, it may be for their good. However, it is not particularly easy to hide an elephant…

BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Protection even in Windows 11

BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Protection even in Windows 11

ESET experts reported that the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit, which is sold on hacker forums for about $ 5,000, is indeed capable of bypassing Secure Boot protection. According to researchers, the…

New stealthy “Beep” malware focuses heavily on evading detection

New stealthy “Beep” malware focuses heavily on evading detection

Cybercriminals periodically develop something new. Sometimes it is an updated version of already known malware, and sometimes it is something new and not obvious, such as Beep malware. Thus, this…

LastPass Breach Investigation Goes On, Things are Even Worse

LastPass Breach Investigation Goes On, Things are Even Worse

LastPass, owned by GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) and with over 30 million users, revealed new details about the cyber incidents that have shaken the company since August 2022, when fragments of…

YouTube Video Causes Pixel Smartphones to Reboot

YouTube Video Causes Pixel Smartphones to Reboot

Users have found that Pixel smartphones powered by Google Tensor processors are rebooting when user is trying to watch a clip from the movie “Alien” on YouTube in 4K HDR.…

The Researcher Hacked His Own Bank Account by Imitating a Voice with AI

The Researcher Hacked His Own Bank Account by Imitating a Voice with AI

The journalist Vice Motherboard Joseph Cox hacked the bank account by imitating a voice with the help of AI, which proved that the voice ID used by banks in the…