CouchSurfing investigates data leak of 17 million users
The popular service CouchSurfing, with the help of which you can find accommodation while traveling (or provide your accommodation to other users), "leaked" the...
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“Meowing” attack completely destroyed more than 1000 databases
The head of Comparitech and well-known information security expert Bob Diachenko discovered a strange wave of attacks on unprotected installations of Elasticsearch and MongoDB....
Hackers actively use the legal tool OpenBullet for account takeover (ATO)
Account takeover is a huge problem these days. To steal billions of credentials from thousands of platforms, criminals use automated tools - for example,...
Check Point Specialists Explained Vanity URL Issue in Zoom
Check Point experts said that back in January 2020, they helped Zoom to fix the Vanity URL link issue, which could allow hackers to...
Diebold Nixdorf discovered a new form of attacks on ATMs in Europe
Diebold Nixdorf discovered a new form of attack on ATMs in Europe. The company's security specialists warned of a variation of the black box...
Russian hackers tried to steal COVID-19 research data
The UK National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC), with support of the US National Security Agency and Canadian intelligence agencies, warned that Russian hackers were trying...
TrickBot malware accidentally notified its victims about infection
The Bleeping Computer magazine reports that the Advanced Intelligence information security specialist Vitali Kremez studied the new version of the famous TrickBot malware and...
Botnet Phorpiex doubled its activity
Check Point experts found that the Phorpiex botnet (aka Trik) has increased its activity. Researchers have recorded a sharp increase in attacks using Phorpiex,...
Joker once again bypassed the protection and entered the Google Play Store
Information security experts in 2017 first discovered the Joker malware (or Bread, in Google terminology). Joker has developed rapidly and even entered Google Play...
During quarantine, stalkerware usage increased by 51%
Avast analysts warn that during the quarantine period, from March to June 2020, the use of spyware and stalkerware (including those that are installed...
Trojan Microcin uses “sock in the washing machine” to hunt for diplomatic organizations
Kaspersky Lab experts presented a detailed report on the recent activity of the hacking group Microcin (aka SixLittleMonkeys), which specializes in surveillance for diplomatic...
IS Specialists Report Mass Attacks on Vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP
An extremely dangerous RCE problem was discovered and fixed last week in the configuration interface of the popular BIG-IP application delivery controller. After publication...
