The Security Blog From Gridinsoft
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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,…
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 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 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…
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,…
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 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…
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…