The Security Blog From Gridinsoft
Blogger Forced ChatGPT to Generate Keys for Windows 95
YouTube user Enderman demonstrated that he was able to force ChatGPT to generate activation keys for Windows 95. Let me…
Russian-Speaking Hack Group Winter Vivern Attacks Governments in Europe and Asia
The Russian-speaking hack group Winter Vivern (aka TA473 in the Proofpoint classification) has been actively exploiting a vulnerability in Zimbra…
APT43 Funds Cybercrime With Stolen Crypto
Researchers have identified a new state-backed hacker group in North Korea. The group in question is the North Korean hacker…
Ransomware Actors Target IBM’s Aspera Faspex
File transfer utility Aspera Faspex, developed by IBM, became a riding mare of cybercriminals. A vulnerability discovered in the past…
3CX Phone System is Struck With Chain Supply Attack
3CX Phone System, a desktop app for business phone communication, fell victim to a supply chain attack. Recent updates deliver…
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…
Google fixed another major vulnerability in the V8 engine
A series of feverish fixes for problems in Google Chrome continues, this time Google has fixed a major vulnerability related to the operation of the JavaScript engine V8 in the…
Criminals threaten to leak new Apple logo, if the company doesn’t pay the ransom
Last week it became known that the operators of the ransomware REvil are trying to blackmail Apple, and now the criminals threaten to leak the company’s new logo into the…