DDoS blackmailers pretend to be Fancy Bear and Armada Collective
Akamai experts have warned of a new wave of DDoS ransomware. Blackmailers threaten companies with DDoS attacks and pretend to be well-known hacker groups...
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Vulnerabilities in some email clients allowed attacks via mailto links
A group of experts from the Ruhr University in Bochum and the University of Applied Sciences of Münster published a report saying that vulnerabilities...
TeamTNT miner steals credentials from Amazon Web Services
Trend Micro specialists discovered the TeamTNT miner this spring. Now there is evidence that TeamTNT steals credentials from Amazon Web Services. to researchers, this...
Google Project Zero warns that Fresh Windows LSASS Patch is Ineffective
Google Project Zero writes that one of Microsoft's patches, which was released earlier this week as part of the "update Tuesday", namely the Windows...
An updated version of Agent Tesla steals passwords from browsers and VPN clients
SentinelOne experts warned that the updated version of Agent Tesla malware is equipped with modules for stealing credentials from applications, including browsers, FTP and...
Researcher Demonstrates Exploitation of Zoom Vulnerabilities at DEF CON
At DEF CON 28, which was held online this year, researcher Mazin Ahmed demonstrated a number of vulnerabilities affecting the popular video conferencing application...
Qualcomm Snapdragon vulnerabilities endanger nearly half of smartphones in the world
Researchers from Check Point have discovered more than 400 vulnerabilities in Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, which are installed on approximately 40% of smartphones in the...
Firefox has fixed the “evil cursor” problem
Firefox developers have fixed an "evil cursor" problem exploited by fake tech support scammers. Due to this bug, attackers did not allow victims easily...
Microsoft spent twice more than Google on bug bounty programs last year
Microsoft reported on its 15 bug bounty programs last year. It turned out that in 2019 company paid the researchers a total of $13,700,000...
Hack group Maze has published over 70 GB of data stolen from LG and Xerox
Operators of the Maze ransomware kept their promise: without receiving a ransom from LG Electronics and Xerox, the attackers published on their website the...
Zoom bug allowed to matching a password for conferences
SearchPilot specialist Tom Anthony discovered that a bug in Zoom allowed brute forcing a password to someone else's conference. fact is that since April...
Doki malware exploits Dogecoin API to communicate with C&C servers
Intezer Labs discovered Doki, new Linux malware, targeting poorly secured Docker installations. According to their report, the Doki malware exploits the Dogecoin API to...
