The Security Blog From Gridinsoft
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…
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…
GitHub warned users about phishing attack
Representatives of the GitHub web service warned users of a massive phishing attack called Sawfish. Recently, users more and more often receive phishing emails with fake warnings about suspicious activity…
More than 700 malicious libraries detected in RubyGems repository
Information security researchers at ReversingLabs reported the discovery of 725 malicious libraries that stole the contents of the clipboard in the official RubyGems repository. RubyGems is a package manager for…
Hoaxcalls botnet attacks Grandstream devices
Palo Alto Networks experts warn that the Hoaxcalls botnet attacks the recently fixed vulnerability in the Grandstream UCM6200 series devices. The Hoaxcalls botnet is built on the source code of…
Due to the pandemic Google developers re-enabled FTP support for Chrome
Most recently, I wrote that Firefox developers plan to remove from their browser support for the FTP protocol, as consider it to be unsafe. At the same time, Google re-enabled…
COVID-19 pandemic raised interest in pirated sites
Currently, hundreds of millions of people remain at home and occur global changes in the Internet traffic trends. In particular, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, raised interest in pirated sites.…
Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so criminals would not do it
The well-known IS journalist Brian Krebs drew attention to an interesting fact: this week Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so that criminals would not do it. The sum of transaction…
NASA staff faces exponential increase in number of hacker attacks
Representatives of the space agency said that recently NASA staff and home-based agency contractors suffered from increase in the number of hacker attacks, and their devices are constantly trying to…
82.5% of Microsoft Exchange servers are still vulnerable
Information security experts from Rapid7 reported that more than 35,000 Internet-connected Microsoft Exchange servers are still vulnerable to the critical vulnerability CVE-2020-0688 that was fixed in February. The vulnerability affects…