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A Sydney resident was sentenced to 15 months in prison and 300 hours of community service after secretly using the facilities of the Australian State Alliance for Scientific and Applied Research (CSIRO). On the state supercomputer CSIRO, the Australian simply was mining cryptocurrency. In 2018, an undisclosed man was hired …

Check Point specialists spoke about the Rampant Kitten hacker group, which steals 2FA codes from SMS, as well as data from Telegram and KeePass, and which has been tracking Iranian opposition organizations, dissidents and expats for at least six years. The researchers emphasize that other companies and journalists have previously …

The US Department of Justice has filed charges in absentia against three Iranian hackers suspected of hacking into companies in aerospace and satellite sectors. One of the alleged hackers was previously considered a white hat specialist. According to prosecutors, Said Pourkarim Arabi, Mohammad Reza Espargham and Mohammad Bayati have been …

Specialists of the Chinese company Tencent Security reported about the MrbMiner malware, which is used to install cryptocurrency miners on Microsoft SQL databases. According to experts, MrbMiner malware has infected thousands of MSSQL servers. The researchers named the group behind these attacks MrbMiner, after one of the domains used by …

According to Kaspersky Lab, more and more hacker groups are carrying out targeted attacks on Linux-based devices using specially designed tools. Overall, experts note the growing interest of cybercriminals in Linux systems. The researchers write that over the past eight years, more than ten developed hack groups have carried out …

Famous cybersecurity expert and founder of Sanguine Security (SanSec) Willem de Groot warned about the largest attack in the company’s history aimed at compromising online stores based on the e-commerce platform Magento. According to the specialist, stores based on Magento have suffered the largest attack since 2015. All of these …

It was revealed this week that Microsoft patched a major vulnerability last month. The problem is identified as CVE-2020-1472 and is named Zerologon. The bug allows capturing Windows servers that act as domain controllers in corporate networks. In August 2020, the issue was described as a privilege escalation in Netlogon, …

Recently, a dangerous vulnerability was found in the File Manager plugin for WordPress that allows uploading malicious files to sites. Hackers have already started competing for WordPress sites that are affected by this vulnerability. The File Manager plugin is used by over 700,000 resources, and although the vulnerability has already …

Bleeping Computer reports that this week ransomware Netwalker attackerd K-Electric, the largest electricity supplier in the Pakistani city of Karachi, disrupting billing and several other online services. K-Electric is one of the largest electricity suppliers in Pakistan, serving 2.5 million customers and over 10,000 employees. On September 7, 2020, the …

September Patch Tuesday brought fixes for 129 vulnerabilities in 15 different Microsoft products: Windows, Edge and Internet Explorer browsers, ChakraCore, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Office, ASP.NET, OneDrive, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio and Microsoft Dynamics. At the same time, the company’s engineers assure that any of the vulnerabilities eliminated this month …