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Bleeping Computer writes that many users may have problems with the updated version of Chrome OS: the processor load reaches 100%, and because of this, there are problems with production, fast battery discharge and overheating. Apparently, the problem is not found on all Chromebooks. So far, only the owners of …

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 …

Bleeping Computer journalists noticed that another ransomware group has launched its own website for stolen data from hacked companies that refuse to pay the ransom. The Conti ransomware, which many information security specialists consider the “successor” of the well-known ransomware Ryuk, has acquired its own website for leaked data. Conti …

Bleeping Computer reports that a week ago RansomEXX ransomware attacked Konica Minolta. Many of the holding’s services suffered from the attack. The first signs of a failure were noticed by the company’s customers back on July 30, 2020. Then users began to discover that the Konica Minolta product support site …

The Shiny Hunters hacker group has been quite active in recent months. For example, it claimed responsibility for compromising Microsoft’s GitHub repositories, and also hacked Tokopedia (Indonesia’s largest online store) and sold data from more than a dozen other companies. Now Shiny Hunters hackers have published user data of 18 …

One of the most active botnets of 2019, Emotet, did not show almost any “signs of life” since February this year. Recently Emotet resumed activity and returned to service with a new spam campaign. Check Point researchers noted that Emotet was the most active organization in October 2019, but at …

The night of July 15-16 was quite difficult for Twitter, as happened the biggest attack in the history of the company. Many accounts of public people, companies, cryptocurrency exchanges and so on were subjected to mass compromise. So, among the victims were: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, …

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 …

Bleeping Computer journalists warned that the scammers recently seized three YouTube channels, gave them new names associated with SpaceX, and then launched fake “broadcasts” with Elon Musk, during which they conducted fictitious distributions of bitcoins. Thus, from fake SpaceX channels on YouTube, attackers lured users over $150,000 in cryptocurrency in …