The Security Blog From Gridinsoft

Breached Forums are Not Accessible

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…

vaccine against Russian hackers

Cyrillic on the keyboard may become a “vaccine” against Russian hackers

After the sensational cyberattack on the American fuel giant Colonial Pipeline, experts proposed a kind of “vaccine” against Russian hackers. The cybercriminal group DarkSide behind the attack on the Colonial…

patches for Frag Attacks problems

Manufacturers release patches for Frag Attacks problems

Manufacturers of various Wi-Fi-enabled equipment and software developers for this equipment release patches for Frag Attacks problems. Let me remind you that last week the details of twelve vulnerabilities were…

XSS Banned Ransomware Ads

Hacker XSS Forum Banned Ransomware Ads

The administration of the popular hacker forum XSS (formerly DaMaGeLab) has banned advertising and sale of any ransomware on its pages. Groups like REvil, LockBit, DarkSide, Netwalker, Nefilim, and so…

vulnerability in the universal Turing machine

Scientist discovered a vulnerability in the universal Turing machine

Pontus Johnson, a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, discovered a vulnerability in the universal Turing machine. A Turing machine is an abstract executor (abstract computing machine).…

Wi-Fi Devices and Frag Attacks

Any Wi-Fi enabled devices are vulnerable to Frag Attacks issues

The well-known information security expert Mathy Vanhoef reported the discovery of a whole set of vulnerabilities named Frag Attacks (Fragmentation and aggregation attacks), which affect all devices with Wi-Fi support,…

cyberattacks on water supply systems

FBI investigates cyberattacks on two water supply systems in Pennsylvania

Last month, the local Water Action Response Network, which includes utility companies, sent emails to its members, informing that cyberattacks had affected two water supply systems. According to the letter,…

Qualcomm Mobile Station Modem

Qualcomm Mobile Station Modem vulnerability threatens 40% of smartphones

More than a third of all smartphones in the world have been affected by a new vulnerability in Qualcomm Mobile Station Modem (MSM). This bug gives attackers access to call…

Chrome 90 security feature

Chrome 90 gets new security feature to protect against attacks on Windows 10

Google has introduced a new Windows 10 security feature called Hardware-enforced Stack Protection in its Chrome 90 browser to protect the memory stack against cyberattacks. Microsoft introduced Hardware-enforced Stack Protection…

Adobe flash player

Microsoft will permanently remove Adobe Flash Player from Windows in summer 2021

According to manufacturers’ elaborate plan, since beginning of 2021 support for Adobe Flash Player was finally discontinued. This means that Adobe has officially stopped distributing Flash Player and its updates,…

bypasses Specter protection

New Micro-op Cache Attack Bypasses Specter Protection

A team of researchers from the Universities of Virginia and California has developed a new attack on hardware that bypasses Specter protection. The attack allows stealing data when the processor…

GitHub review exploit policy

GitHub Developers Review Exploit Posting Policy Due to Recent Scandal

The GitHub developers review the exploit posting policy and want to discuss with the information security community a series of changes to the site rules. These rules determine how employees…

Hacked OGUsers Forum

Attackers Hacked OGUsers Hacking Forum Again

Recently, the media reported that attackers hacked one of the most popular hacking forums on the Internet, OGUSERS (aka OGU) again, for the second time in the last year. Then…