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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 …

In March 2020 arrived information about the problem CVE-2020-0796, which is also called SMBGhost, CoronaBlue, NexternalBlue and BluesDay. The problem affects SMBv3, and Windows 10 1903, Windows 10 1909, Windows Server 1903, and Windows Server 1909 were vulnerable to the bug. A working RCE exploit for the SMBGhost problem has …

Bleeping Computer reports that the hacker group behind the operations of the Maze ransomware published in public domain on its website credit card information, stolen from Banco de Costa Rica. Since the bank’s management denies compromising, hackers are threatening to continue to publish such dumps every week until they are …

The Bleeping Computer publication says that ransomware operators have begun to use a new tactic that allows them to get more money from victims. Now cybercriminals demands two ransoms from the affected companies: one for decrypting the data, and the other for deleting the information that the hackers stole during …

In March 2020, was published information about the problem CVE-2020-0796, which is also called SMBGhost. It affects SMBv3, and almost all Windows systems were vulnerable to the bug. Now experts have demonstrated an exploit for SMBGhost RCE vulnerability. Let me remind you that the SMB protocol a few years ago …