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Hacker Group XDSpy Distributes Malware in Russia under the Guise of Subpoenas for the Army
In early October, Kaspersky Lab experts recorded a targeted attack on Russian organizations: attackers from the XDSpy hacker group sent…
Hundreds of Microsoft SQL Servers Infected with Maggie Backdoor
Security researchers have discovered a new malware that targets Microsoft SQL servers. The backdoor is dubbed Maggie, has already infected…
Ferrari Has So Far Denied If It Attacked by Ransomware
Sports and racing car maker Ferrari persistently denies it was ransacked. At the same time, the RansomEXX hack group added…
Hackers Compromise Comm100 Live Chat to Attack a Supply Chain
The official installer of the Comm100 Live Chat SaaS application, which is widely used by companies to communicate with customers…
Judge Sentences Former eBay Executives to Jail Terms for Harassing Bloggers
Last week, two former eBay executives were sentenced to prison terms for harassing a blogger couple who posted unflattering articles…
Europe’s largest private hospital operator Fresenius attacked with Snake ransomware
Fresenius, Europe’s largest private hospital operator and major provider of products and services for dialysis, was affected during Snake ransomware cyberattack. According to KrebsOnSecurity sources, the incident disrupted some systems,…
Techno giant Jio disclosed data of people tested for COVID-19
Recently, India’s technology giant Jio, partly acquired by Facebook, has disclosed the confidential data of people, tested for COVID-19. In March of this year, Jio released a service that allows…
Hackers Attacked Ghost Blogging Platform and LineageOS Servers Using Salt Vulnerabilities
According to the development team of the Ghost blogging platform, hackers attacked it using the Authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-11651) and directory bypass (CVE-2020-11652) vulnerabilities in Salt in order to gain…
Trump declared a state of emergency due to cyberattacks on US energy systems
Last Friday, President Trump declared a state of emergency in the country due to cyberattacks on the US energy system. Now he is taking steps to protect the energy system…
IS researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in GitLab
IS researcher William Bowling made $20,000 by discovering a critical vulnerability in GitLab. The bug allowed achieving the execution of arbitrary code or stealing confidential data from the server. Bowling…
Google experts talked about vulnerabilities in Apple operating systems
Google Project Zero specialists discovered and described many vulnerabilities in Apple’s operating systems. For example, they are part of the Image I/O framework, which is used for parsing images and…
Grandoreiro Banker Spreads Through Fake Coronavirus Videos
ESET analysts warned about surge in the activity of the banking Trojan Grandoreiro amid COVID-19 pandemic. The bunker is distributed through fake coronavirus videos. Experts report that Grandoreiro, previously written…
End of an era: Twitter disabled SMS in most countries
Twitter said it disabled option of using SMS with the text of new tweets last week due to security issues. The function was disabled in all countries, except for “several”…
Sindhi Language Symbols Disable iPhone and iPad
Users found that a messages with certain characters in the Sindhi language symbols (used primarily in India and Pakistan) disable OS 13.4.1 and crash the iPhone and iPad. A “text…
Criminals hacked more than 60 ad servers to distribute malware
Confiant experts found that in the past nine months (since August 2019), unknown criminals have hacked more than 60 ad servers in order to inject their malicious ads onto a…
For iOS was discovered a new exploit, with the help of which China traced the Uyghurs
Specialists of the information security company Volexity discovered a new exploit for iOS called Insomnia. According to the researchers, the malware associated with the efforts of the Chinese authorities to…
Conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creating coronavirus
Microsoft founder Bill Gates fell victim of fake theories that he was allegedly involved in the creation of the coronavirus COVID-19. In fact, conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creation…