Energy company Enel Group suffered from the Netwalker ransomware attack
The Italian energy company Enel Group, which produces and distributes electricity and gas, was hacked for the second time in a year. But this...
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News · October 27, 2020
Nitro hack has led to data leakage of such clients as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Citibank and others
Nitro, the developer of the well-known PDF tool, suffered from data leakage of clients, which include quite large and well-known companies. scale of the...
News · October 26, 2020
Microsoft will force opening some sites in Edge instead of Internet Explorer
Microsoft developers continue to phase out support for the Internet Explorer, whose market share has not exceeded 5% for a long time, in favour...
News · October 24, 2020
Nvidia specialists have fixed a number of serious vulnerabilities in GeForce Experience
Nvidia has patched three serious vulnerabilities in GeForce Experience. Bugs allowed execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, gain access to confidential information, or provoke a...
News · October 22, 2020
WordPress developers forcibly updated vulnerable Loginizer plugin
This week, the WordPress developers were forced to go to extreme measures and take a very rare step: they forcibly updated the Loginizer plugin...
Egregor · October 21, 2020
Egregor ransomware attacked Barnes & Noble bookstore chain
The largest bookstore chain in the United States, Barnes & Noble (more than 600 stores in 50 states), which also operates the Nook Digital...
News · October 20, 2020
Darkside ransomware operators donate money to charity
ZDNet reports that the hackers behind the Darkside ransomware have donated money to charity. Recently $ 10,000 in ransoms went to Children International and...
News · October 19, 2020
Microsoft released emergency patches for Windows Codecs and Visual Studio
October's "Update Tuesday", which fixed 87 bugs, has already passed, and now Microsoft developers have released emergency patches for vulnerabilities in the Windows Codecs...
Egregor · October 16, 2020
Operators of the Egregor ransomware “leaked” data stolen from Ubisoft and Crytek into the network
This week, Egregor ransomware operators published on their website on the darknet data that allegedly was stolen from the largest game developers - Ubisoft...
News · October 15, 2020
FIN11 hack group is now engaged in ransomware attacks and is distributing the Clop ransomware
Experts from Mandiant (FireEye) have published a recent report that the FIN11 group, which has existed since 2016, usually pursuing financial gain in its...
News · October 14, 2020
Microsoft patched 87 vulnerabilities, including 21 RCE bugs
As part of October Patch Tuesday, Microsoft patched 87 vulnerabilities in its products, including 11 critical vulnerabilities and 21 remote code execution (RCE) issues....
News · October 13, 2020
More than $22 million in cryptocurrency stolen from Electrum wallets
The first reports of problems among users of Electrum cryptocurrency wallets began to appear back in December 2018, when criminals attacked the project's infrastructure...
