Security

Malwarebytes experts discovered that MageCart hackers use a kind of steganography and hide web skimmers in EXIF image metadata and use images to extract stolen data. Initially, the name MageCart was assigned to one hack group, which first began to use the so-called web skimmers on websites to steal bank …

Trustwave specialists found that an unnamed Chinese bank forced at least two western companies to install official tax software containing the GoldenSpy backdoor. The names of the affected companies were not disclosed, but it is known that they were a financial institution and a software provider that recently opened offices …

Developers of the anonymous Tails operating system are intrigued how their OS was hacked. Tails experts are trying to find out the details of the attack, which Facebook and the FBI resorted to catch the criminal who was chasing the girls on a social network. As Adware Guru previously reported, …

At the beginning of this week, a group of DDoSecrets activists (Distributed Denial of Secrets), describing itself as a “champion of transparency” published 269 GB of data publicly owned by law enforcement agencies and data centers in the United States. It has now become known that Twitter has blocked the …

The DDoSecrets activist group, which describes itself as a “champion of transparency,” has published 269 GB of data, owned by law enforcement agencies and data centers in the United States. Fusion Centers usually act as intermediaries and focal points between state law enforcement agencies, local governments, and US federal agencies. …

Check Point experts unveiled a sophisticated cybercriminal campaign aimed at collecting corporate data and compromising Microsoft Office 365 accounts through phishing attacks. To avoid detection, the attackers used the servers of well-known organizations – Oxford University, Adobe and Samsung. 43% of these attacks were targeted at European companies, while the …

Information security experts Adam Nichols and d4rkn3ss independently discovered that there is critical vulnerability in 79 Netgear router models. A bug in Netgear firmware may allow hackers remotely take control a device. The vulnerability affects 758 different firmware versions that have been used in 79 Netgear routers for many years, …

MaxLinear, an American manufacturer of systems on a chip (SoC), reported about a cyberattack. MaxLinear became the victim of Maze ransomware operators. The attack was discovered on May 24. During the attack were encrypted data of some computer systems of the company. “We immediately turned off all systems, hired third-party …

In February of this year, Palo Alto Networks experts identified a number of serious vulnerabilities in the D-Link DIR-865L routers, and immediately informed the manufacturer about it. However, so far these D-Link routers did not receive all fixes. Unfortunately, this router model, released back in 2012, is no longer supported …

Bleeping Computer magazine warned that fixing a bug in the AVG and Avast applications led to changes in the registry, which caused problems in the system. Updating Avast now interferes in running of programs on Windows 10. Complaints from users began to arrive last week, when people found that they …