Chrome Extension Installed 200,000 Times Turned Out to Be Adware
The Internet Download Manager extension, designed for Google Chrome and installed more than 200,000 times, turned out to be adware. the same time, the...
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News · August 25, 2022
Extortionists Demand $10 million from Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien
The large medical center Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF), located 28 kilometers from the center of Paris and serving an area with a population...
News · August 24, 2022
FBI: Hackers Are More Likely to Use Residential Proxies in Data Substitution Attacks
In a new report, the FBI talked about data substitution attacks, one of the options for a “dictionary attack”. In these attacks, attackers use...
News · August 23, 2022
Experts Found More than 200 Miner Packages for Linux Systems in PyPI and npm Repositories
Experts again discovered malware in the PyPI and npm repositories - it turned out that more than 200 packages use typesquatting and contain cryptocurrency...
News · August 22, 2022
Apple Fixes at Once Two 0-Day Vulnerabilities That Threatened iOS, MacOS and Safari
Apple has released updates to its products that, among other things, fix two 0-day vulnerabilities already used by attackers to hack iPhone, iPad and...
News · August 19, 2022
The Researcher Showed How to Get Root Access to Agricultural Machinery John Deere
A hacker known by the pseudonym Sick Codes demonstrated a jailbreak for John Deere & Co tractors at the DEF CON conference, wanting to...
News · August 18, 2022
Attackers Stole 20,000 Items Worth $6 Million from a Site That Sold Skins for CS:GO
One of the largest platforms for selling game skins for CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive), CS.MONEY, has reported a hack. The work of the resource...
News · August 17, 2022
Malicious Packages from PyPi Arrange DDoS Attacks on Counter-Strike Servers
Checkmarx analysts have discovered a new batch of malware in the PyPi repository - this time, the malicious packages turned out to be quite...
News · August 16, 2022
Developers Oppose Tracking Cookies on GitHub
The developer community is extremely unhappy with the upcoming privacy policy changes on GitHub - the new rules will allow GitHub to place "tracking"...
News · August 12, 2022
Yanluowang Ransomware Hacked Cisco
Cisco representatives confirmed that in May, Yanluowang extortionist group hacked the company's corporate network. , the attackers tried to extort money from Cisco, otherwise...
News · August 11, 2022
10 Malicious PyPI Packages Steal Credentials
Another case of malware penetration into PyPI was discovered - 10 malicious packages were removed from the repository at once, as they could steal...
News · August 10, 2022
Microsoft Experts Warn That Windows Devices on New CPUs Can Corrupt Data
Microsoft engineers have warned that devices running Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 with new supported CPUs may "corrupt data" for users in some...
