The Check Point Research team has found a surge in hacker activity over the past six weeks – the number of phishing attacks in the run-up to Black Friday has doubled. fact is that due to restrictions associated with COVID...
Author - Emma Davis
Vulnerabilities in TikTok Allowed One-Click Accounts Hacking
TikTok developers have fixed two vulnerabilities that allowed hijacking accounts of users registered through third-party applications. The vulnerabilities were a mirrored XSS and company domain-related bug leading to full account...
Bug in Facebook Messenger for Android allowed connecting to user conversations
Google Project Zero specialist Natalie Silvanovich discovered a dangerous bug in Facebook Messenger for Android and received from the social network $60,000. The problem allowed an attacker to make audio calls and connect to...
Researchers reported about bugs in Webex that allowed spying on conferences
IBM researchers reported about three bugs in the Webex conferencing application that were recently fixed by Cisco engineers. The vulnerabilities allowed outsiders to join the conference and stay in the chat even after being...
REvil ransomware attack forced Managed.com hoster to disable client sites
Earlier this week, major web hosting solution provider Managed.com suffered from a ransomware attack called REvil. The company was forced to shut down all of its servers, and even client sites were affected by the incident. to...
Unknowns attack WordPress sites with the Epsilon Framework
Wordfence discovered a massive attack on WordPress sites. Attackers are actively looking for WordPress sites that use themes with the Epsilon Framework, which can be vulnerable to a number of function injection problems, and...
More than 25 hacker groups work under the “Ransomware as a Service” model
According to a report published by Intel 471 researchers, more than 25 hack groups offer their services under the “Ransomware as a Service” (RaaS) model. Therefore, hackers lease extortion malware to other criminals...
Egregor ransomware attacked largest Chilian retailer Cencosud
Bleeping Computer reports that the Egregor ransomware attacked the Chilean company Cencosud, one of the largest retailers in South America. me remind you that Egregor began its activity quite recently – in early September...
Hackers attacked children’s Animal Jam resource: 46 million accounts were affected
Bleeping Computer reports that hackers attacked the online “playground” Animal Jam, created by WildWorks and aimed at children aged 7-11. databases (game_accounts and users) have already been published on the darknet...
Minecraft fans downloaded fleeceware from Google Play over 5,000,000 times
Avast has discovered a fleeceware in the Google Play store, that fans of the popular video game Minecraft downloaded 5,000,000 times. They offer new skins, colourful wallpapers or mods for the game, but the subscription price is...