Bleeping Computer reports that the well-known ransomware Maze, which has existed since May 2019, terminates its activity. It seems that the authors of Maze have decided to follow an example of their “colleagues”, GandCrab malware...
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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 time Enel Group suffered from the Netwalker ransomware. is one of the largest players...
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 problem is easy to gauge by looking at the official statistics: over 10,000...
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 for the new Edge browser on the Chromium engine. For example, the company said that...
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 denial of service (DoS). vulnerabilities were...
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 for all users to version 1.6.4. is one of the most popular WordPress plugins (over...
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 e-book platform, suffered a hack last week. Now it turned out that Egregor ransomware...
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 The Water Project. International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to...
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 Library and Visual Studio Code. bugs...
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 and Crytek. It is unclear how exactly this information got into the...