Hackers laundered money through Twitch: at least $10 million in total
Studying the data published by hackers after the recent compromise of Twitch, journalists discovered a scheme according to which cybercriminals laundered money through the...
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News · November 6, 2021
Hacking group BlackShadow hacked Israeli hoster and blackmails its clients
The hacker group BlackShadow attacked the Israeli hosting provider Cyberserve, stealing client databases and disrupting the company's services. hoster is used by various organizations...
News · November 5, 2021
Facebook Ditches Facial Recognition and Will Delete Billion Users’ Data
Facebook announced that it is ditching the Face Recognition system on its platform and will remove the corresponding profiles previously created for a billion...
News · November 2, 2021
OptinMonster WordPress plugin lets to inject code into vulnerable sites
The popular OptinMonster WordPress plugin, installed over a million times, had a serious code injection vulnerability. The problem allowed an unauthorized party to gain...
News · October 28, 2021
Cyberattack disrupted operation of gas stations across Iran
Due to some kind of "software collapse" (which experts consider to be a cyberattack), gas stations across Iran were disrupted this week. In addition,...
News · October 26, 2021
151 Android Apps Subscribed Users to Paid Services
Avast experts discovered a large-scale fraudulent campaign that has been active since May 2021, involving 151 Android apps, with a total of about 10.5...
News · October 26, 2021
Attackers hacked the UA-Parser-JS npm package, which is downloaded millions of times weekly
The hackers broke into the popular UA-Parser-JS npm (JavaScript library) and injected malicious code that downloaded and installed a password stealing tool and cryptocurrency...
News · October 22, 2021
CISA: GPS devices may behave unpredictably in the coming days due to a bug in the GPS Daemon
Experts from the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency (DHS CISA) warned that GPS devices could run into problems over the...
News · October 21, 2021
SmashEx attack compromises Intel SGX enclaves
Scientists from universities in China, Singapore and Switzerland talked about a new SmashEx attack that helps to compromise Intel SGX enclaves and steal sensitive...
News · October 21, 2021
Zerodium buys vulnerabilities in ExpressVPN, NordVPN and Surfshark
Renowned vulnerability broker Zerodium announced that it is purchasing zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows clients for three major VPN products: ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Surfshark. I...
News · October 19, 2021
Hacker stole the government database with the identity cards of the entire population of Argentina
The attacker infiltrated the Argentine government's network and stole a database containing the identity cards of the entire population of the country. This information...
News · October 18, 2021
Windows 11 update fixes performance issue for AMD processors
Microsoft continues to struggle with bugs in Windows 11 - the company released Windows 11 preview build 22000.282, which fixes performance issues in AMD...
