Viruses, trojans, software vulnerabilities, security issues

A ransomware virus attacked Casio – hackers stole personal data of clients and employees

Japanese electronics giant Casio has confirmed that a ransomware attack earlier this month led to the theft of customer data.…

4 months ago

The Internet Archive resumed operation after the attack, but for now in read-only mode.

The Internet Archive, located at archive.org, has resumed operation after a recent hacker attack, but is still in read-only mode.…

4 months ago

Internet Archive still doesn’t work after being hacked – it will take a few more days to recover

This week, hackers broke into the Wayback Machine, a service owned by the non-profit Internet Archive that allows users to…

4 months ago

Chinese hackers tried to hack OpenAI using its own ChatGPT

OpenAI was attacked by Chinese cybercriminals who sent malware to OpenAI employees in archived files. “We have disrupted the alleged…

5 months ago

Since the beginning of the year, Roskomnadzor has blocked 456 million phone calls

Over the eight months of this year, Roskomnadzor (RKN) blocked 456 million fraudulent calls, Vedomosti reported, citing information from the…

5 months ago

The Linux virus Perfctl has infected thousands of servers since 2021 and secretly mines cryptocurrency on them

Dangerous malware Perfctl was discovered, which managed to infect several thousand machines running Linux. The virus is distinguished by hidden…

5 months ago

Meta stored Europeans’ passwords in clear text – it was fined €91 million

The EU industry regulator has fined social media giant Meta✴ Platforms €91 million for unintentionally storing user passwords in clear…

5 months ago

Protection against robots has stopped working: AI has learned to perfectly pass the reCAPTCHAv2 check

Researchers Andreas Plesner, Tobias Vontobel, Roger Wattenhofer from ETH Zurich used AI to crack the reCAPTCHAv2 verification system, which is…

5 months ago

Hacker implanted false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data

A vulnerability has been discovered in ChatGPT that allows a potential attacker to insert false information about a user into…

5 months ago

Personal data of more than 100 million US residents was publicly available

Information security researchers have discovered an online database containing the personal information of 106,316,633 US citizens - almost a third…

5 months ago