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The Check Point Research team found a spike in hacker activity over the past six weeks. The fact is that due to the restrictions associated with COVID-19, online shopping has reached a new level this year, and the number of online purchases on black Friday and cyber Monday is breaking all...

The operators of one of the oldest active botnets in existence today, Stantinko, have updated their Trojan for Linux, and now, to bypass detection, it disguises itself as a legitimate Apache web server (httpd) process. The stantinko botnet was first discovered in 2012 and initially only...

Sophos, a British provider of cybersecurity solutions, is notifying customers of an incident that the company encountered earlier this week. The official announcement reads: "on November 24, 2020, Sophos became aware of a problem with access rights to the tool used to store information about...

Fireblocks, an enterprise-grade storage platform for cryptocurrencies, announced today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to $46 million. This round was led by Paradigm with participation from existing investors, Cyberstarts, Tenaya Capital...

Trustwave researchers discovered a vulnerability in the GO SMS Pro app installed more than 100,000,000 times. Because of the bug, multimedia files (voice messages, videos, and images) that users exchange are now available to anyone. You can even extract files from the app server that were...

At the beginning of this week, a major provider of managed web hosting solutions Managed[.] com suffered from a ransomware attack. The company was forced to shut down all its servers, and the incident even affected client sites. According to media reports, the responsibility for this attack lies...

Independent information security expert Pedro Oliveira spoke about the bug CVE-2020-15647, which he discovered in the spring of this year in Firefox for Android. A specially created HTML file could be used to steal cookies from the victim's device. The vulnerability was how Firefox handles...

The Ministry of Finance proposes amendments with fines or jail for hiding cryptocurrencies when submitting declarations. The Russian Ministry of Finance prepared amendments to the Tax, Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes and the Code of Administrative Offenses. According to them, those owners...

Axelar, a decentralized interoperability fabric that connects blockchain ecosystems, applications and users, has announced seed funding of $3.75 million with investments secured from, Binance X, the Binance Smart Chain Accelerator Fund, an arm of Binance – the popular cryptocurrency exchange...

The us company Microsoft has recorded cyber attacks by Russian and North Korean hackers on seven companies that develop vaccines and medicines for coronavirus. This is stated in a statement by Microsoft Vice President of security Tom Burt. The text says that three groups under the code names...

The 26-year-old Ukrainian citizen used test accounts to steal gift cards, which he then sold online. A Seattle district court has sentenced a former Microsoft software engineer to nine years in prison for 18 felonies that caused more than $10 million in property damage to the company. The...

Security researchers from the company Cybereason told about the new malware that was used by the North Korean group Kimsuky (also known as Black Banshee, Velvet Chollima and Thallium) during attacks on government institutions in South Korea. Earlier, the cybersecurity and infrastructure...

Scammers have discovered a new way to deceive users — using Google Drive. According to the publication the Wired, hackers abuse the functionality of Google Drive and use it to send supposedly legitimate emails and push notifications from Google, which, if opened, can redirect people to malicious...

This week, Qnap released an update for its QTS operating system, which is running the company's NAS, announcing the correction of two vulnerabilities related to command injection. Although the developers have not yet disclosed many details about the problems found, it is reported that the bugs...

The Cybercrime group Phosphorus (also known as APT35) sent fake emails to former government officials, scientists, heads of major organizations and politicians, posing as the organizers of the Munich security conference and the Think 20 (T20) summit in Saudi Arabia. According to Microsoft...

Hundreds of thousands of sites running popular content management systems (CMS) WordPress, Joomla, Magneto and Drupal were hacked and included in the kashmirblack botnet, used by cybercriminals for cryptocurrency mining, fraud and deface. According to the information security company Imperva...

The computer systems of the largest Indian news Agency Press Trust of India (PTI) were subjected to a large-scale attack using ransomware, which disrupted the operation of servers for several hours. This was reported by the Hindu Business Line newspaper. The attack by LockBit ransomware...

The malware's Telegram channel supports 98 teams. A security researcher using the alias 3xp0rt discovered a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) advertised on Russian-language underground hacker forums. A malicious software called T-RAT sells for $ 45, and its main advantage is the ability to...

Over the past five years, US authorities have gained access to hundreds of thousands of mobile devices. At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies in all 50 US states have the tools to access encrypted and locked smartphones, and they use them much more often than previously known. According to a...

Researchers at the consulting company Accenture assessed the situation with the sale of access to hacked networks on dark web sites. As it turned out, in three years the demand for this “product” has grown significantly, and such offers are of great interest to distributors of ransomware...