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The Iranian group, which IS experts call Cobalt Dickens, is still active and attacks universities and other educational institutions around the world. In the spring of 2018, U.S. authorities indicted in absentia nine Iranian citizens who were members of the “government” hack group affiliated with the Mabna Institute, a company …

Researcher Jose Rodriguez told The Register that the latest version of iOS 13 is vulnerable to the same type of lock screen bypass as previous versions. Rodriguez discovered a bug that allows opening the address book without unlocking the device, back in July of this year, when iOS 13 was …

Researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security have described a Simjacker attack that uses SMS messages to send SIM Toolkit (STK) and S @ T Browser instructions on a SIM card. For more than two years, cybercriminals have been monitoring SIM card owners using Simjacker. Experts have warned that this attack is not …

Avast experts found that more than 600,000 GPS trackers used to monitor the location of children, the elderly, pets, cars and so on use the default password – “123456”. Using the default password to crack users’ accounts, attackers can overhear conversations next to the GPS tracker, fake the real location …

Experts have discovered the first case of financial fraud using deepfake, an artificial intelligence-based technology for synthesizing video and audio content similar to the original. The deceivers managed almost flawlessly recreate the voice of the general director of the company and with the help of fake phonograms managed to transfer …

Attackers posted on the Internet a leaked database with information about the phone numbers of millions Facebook users. The discovered server contained databases with data from more than 419 million users from different countries, including from the USA (133 million), Vietnam (50 million), and Great Britain (18 million). Since the …

ZDNet reported that the Brazilian hack group cloned EMV debit cards from more than 2,000 customers of the German bank Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB) and stole 1.5 million euros from its accounts, having cashed user funds throughout Brazil. The theft happened last week and only affected Mastercard debit card holders. “The …

The European satellite had to change its position in orbit in order to avoid a collision with the Starlink satellite. SpaceX claims that the failure of the warning system is to blame for the situation. SpaceX launched one of the Starlink satellites, together with the other 59 satellites, in May …

The forums of the popular XKCD web comic, created by artist Randall Munroe back in 2005, have been hacked and are currently disabled until the developers are again confident in their safety. As a result of the incident, which occurred as early as the beginning of July 2019, the data …

The latest cumulative update for Windows 10 (version 1903) fixes a problem with the Windows sandbox (Windows Sandbox) that arose after installing another update. As it became known in May of this year, after installing the KB4505057 update, the Windows sandbox stopped working. “The sandbox may stop starting and give …