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Cryptocurrency Scam “Pig Butchering” Penetrated the Apple App Store and Google Play Store
The Pig Butchering scam, a scam operation that specializes in fake investments in allegedly promising cryptocurrency projects, stocks, bonds, futures…
Vulnerability in KeePass Allows Stealing All User Passwords in Plain Text
The developers of the open-source password manager KeePass explain that a vulnerability that allows an attacker to steal all user…
Change in the IP Address of the Router Caused a Massive Outage of Microsoft Services
Last week, Microsoft 365 services around the world suffered a major outage that lasted about five hours. As the company…
Microsoft Will Block Excel XLL Files Downloaded from the Internet
Microsoft developers are going to block some Excel add-in (.XLL) files for Microsoft 365. The new measures will include automatic…
Ransomware Revenues Dropped by 40% because Victims Refuse to pay
Ransomware revenue (from ransomware attacks) has fallen from $765.6 million in 2021 to $456.8 million in 2022, according to Chainalysis…
Google says that a quarter of all 0-day vulnerabilities are new variations of old problems
Google analysts studied the 0-day vulnerabilities they discovered in 2020, and concluded that almost a quarter of the problems are new variations of already known bugs that had previously received…
WEF warned of impending cyber pandemic
The WEF experts warned about the impending cyber pandemic and called for new approaches to risk management associated with the development of next generation technologies. By 2025, next-generation technologies such…
Hackers infected the Android emulator NoxPlayer with malware
UPDATE: BigNox contacted us and said that they “contacted cybersecurity firm ESET to determine the root cause of the issue,” and at this point “fixed all issues.” ESET has released…
FonixCrypter ransomware stopped working and published a key to decrypt data
The authors of the FonixCrypter ransomware announced that they had removed the source code of their malware and after this FonixCrypter stopped working. Along with this statement, they published a…
LogoKit phishing kit allows creating phishing pages in real time
RiskIQ researchers said that the new LogoKit phishing kit was detected on more than 700 unique domains in the last month alone and on 300 in the last week. Worse,…
DreamBus botnet attacks corporate applications on Linux servers
Zscaler analysts reported about the new DreamBus botnet that attacks corporate applications on Linux servers. It is a variation of the SystemdMiner malware that appeared back in 2019. DreamBus has…
Authorities of South Africa create their own browser to continue to use Flash
ZDNet reports that the South Africa Revenue service has created its own browser to continue using the Adobe Flash Player on the existing site, taking some web forms from Flash…
End of support for Adobe Flash caused interruptions in the Chinese railway system
As you know, back in 2017, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, as well as Adobe itself announced the end of support for Adobe Flash. The technology was officially “killed” on…
New worm for Android spreads rapidly via WhatsApp
ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko reported a new malware: he said that a new worm for Android automatically spreads through WhatsApp messages. The main purpose of malware is to trick…
Researcher Found Three Bugs Allowing Hacking Amazon Kindle
Researcher Yogev Bar-On from Israeli consulting firm Realmode Labs talked about his KindleDrip attack technique and three Amazon Kindle bugs (already fixed) that underlie it. For discovery of these vulnerabilities…
Chinese hack group Chimera steals data from air passengers
According to reports of cybersecurity researchers, the Chinese hack group Chimera is stealing data from air passengers. The NCC Group and its subsidiary Fox-IT have published a joint report on…
Raindrop is another malware detected during the SolarWinds hack
Symantec specialists detected Raindrop malware, which was used during the attack on SolarWinds along with other malware. According to the researchers, Raindrop was used by cybercriminals in the last stages…