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NetSupport and RaccoonStealer malware spreads masked as Cloudflare warnings
Unknown attackers hacked WordPress sites to send fake DDoS protection notifications supposedly coming from Cloudflare and through such fakes, the…
Researchers Found 35 Malware on Google Play, Overall Installed 2,000,000 Times
Bitdefender experts found 35 malware in the Google Play Store that distributed unwanted ads, and which users in total downloaded…
Janet Jackson Song Killed Hard Drives on Old Laptops
Microsoft specialist Raymond Chen shared an interesting story from the Windows XP era on the blog: the music video for…
Critical Bug in Google Titan M Chip Netted Researchers $75,000
Quarkslab researchers published details of a critical bug they found in the Google Titan M chip earlier this year. Let…
Disrupting SEABORGIUM’s Ongoing Phishing Operations
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) experts announce the disruption of an operation conducted by the Russian-speaking hacking group SEABORGIUM, targeting…
Government hackers attacked companies more often in 2019
Organizations are more likely to become victims of state-sponsored cybercriminals. Government hackers in 2019 began to attack companies around the world more often. 25% of companies associate attacks on their…
Unknown hacker patches vulnerable Citrix servers
Recently, in the public domain appeared exploits for the critical vulnerability CVE-2019-19781, earlier found in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway). Now it was…
Greta Thunberg became the most popular character in phishing campaigns
Check Point analysts prepared a traditional monthly report on the most active threats, the Global Threat Index. Greta Thunberg and Christmas became the most popular topics in spamming and phishing…
IS specialist introduced a PoC exploit for one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities in Windows
The day after the release of the fix for one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities in the history of Windows, security researcher Saleem Rashid demonstrated how it can be used…
Microsoft released farewell updates for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008
On January 14, 2020, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 for PCs of private users, and at the same time finally finished support of the mobile Windows 10 Mobile (1709), but…
Fancy Bear Attacked Ukrainian Oil And Gas Burisma Company
Fancy Bear, also known as APT28, orchestrated an attack on Burisma. Hackers linked to Russian intelligence executed a phishing campaign targeting employees of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma…
Cable Haunt Vulnerability Threats Millions of Modems with Broadcom Chips
Danish researchers have published a report on the Cable Haunt vulnerability that threats millions of cable modem with Broadcom chips. According to experts, the problem threatens more than 200 million…
Researcher remotely hacked iPhone using only one vulnerability
Researcher in a few minutes remotely hacked iPhone using only Apple ID and exploiting only the CVE-2019-8641 vulnerability, due to which he gained access to the user’s accounts and passwords…
Researchers hacked TikTok app via SMS
Check Point experts found many issues in one of the world’s most popular applications, TikTok. Recently researchers hacked TikTok app using sms. TikTok is available in more than 150 markets,…
US Homeland Security warns of possible cyberattacks by Iran
Homeland Security USA issued a warning about possible acts of terrorism and cyberattacks by Iran in response to the assassination of General Kassem Suleimani, the head of the Quds special…
Shitcoin Wallet for Google Chrome steals cryptocurrency passwords and keys
One of the extensions for Google Chrome, Shitcoin Wallet injects a special JavaScript code into web pages. Using this code, attackers steal passwords and private keys from cryptocurrency wallets and…
My Digital Life forum community has found an illegal way to extend support for Windows 7
The community of the My Digital Life online forum has found an illegal way to extend support for Windows 7: bypass Microsoft’s restrictions and allow the installation of Windows 7…