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Who wants to be a millionaire by giving a tip to FBI about this hacker?

Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, also known as Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar, is a Russian native who is 30 years old. The United States Justice Department has charged Matveev for his alleged participation in various ransomware operations. Indictments that have been filed in New Jersey and the District of Columbia say that Matveev was engaged in […]

Hackers have a P2P network of hacked TP-Link routers worldwide. Is your router a part of it?

Check Point Research has been monitoring sophisticated attacks on authorities in numerous European countries since January 2023. The campaign made use of a broad number of tools, one of which was an implant, which is a tactic that is often linked with Chinese government-backed cybercriminals. This action has substantial infrastructure similarities with activities that have […]

Cinepolis hacked, 8 movie theaters screen go black suddenly

Over the course of the weekend, numerous locations within the Cinépolis Chile network were victims of a cyberattack that was triggered by an onslaught of customer complaints. The company was required to issue an apology for the incident, while experts speculated on the many factors that may have contributed to the occurrence. A number of […]

How to detect most advance Russian FSB malware “Snake” in your network

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made the announcement on Tuesday that it had successfully disabled a network of compromised computers that Russian agents had been using for years to steal sensitive information from at least 50 nations, including the governments of NATO members. The move seems to be a severe blow to Russia’s internal […]

How to Secure containers images with open source Bazel tool plugin Rules_oci from Google

Rules_oci, an open-sourced Bazel plugin (“ruleset”) that makes it easier and more secure to create container images using Bazel, has been made generally available by Google. It provides support for both the container community and container image security. Bazel maintains dependencies and caches them according to their integrity hash, making it ideally suited to provide […]

New way to hack millions of users using Papercut printer software

Researchers from VulnCheck have created a new attack for the previously discovered serious issue in PaperCut servers. This exploit, which is tagged as CVE-2023-27350 and has a CVSS score of 9.8, is able to avoid detection by any of the existing countermeasures. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-27350 and with a CVSS score of 9.8, affects […]

You don’t have to be a super hacker to hack into milliones of websites, this cPanel flaw makes it easy for anyone

The software known as cPanel is used extensively online as a control panel for web hosting. At the time this blog article was being written, there were precisely 1.4 million exposed cPanel installations on the public internet. The researchers found a vulnerability known as reflected cross-site scripting, which could be exploited without the need for […]

How a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite got hacked ?

In a presentation that is being called the world’s first ethical satellite hacking exercise, cybersecurity researchers will explain how they took control of a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite this week. The ESA satellite was part of an experiment that was touted as the world’s first ethical satellite hacking exercise. The European Space Agency (ESA) […]

Think twice before buying TP-Link Archer AX21 Wi-Fi router. It can be hacked easily

The renowned Mirai botnet, which is responsible for a multitude of debilitating DDoS attacks, has once again upgraded its arsenal. This time, it is taking advantage of a newly fixed vulnerability in TP-Link Archer AX21 Wi-Fi routers. During the Pwn2Own Toronto competition, numerous teams independently found and revealed the vulnerability identified as CVE-2023-1389, which had […]

New research proves that code generated by ChatGPT is full of vulnerabilities

“How Secure is Code Generated by ChatGPT?” is the title of a pre-press paper. Computer scientists Baba Mamadou Camara, Anderson Avila, Jacob Brunelle, and Raphael Khoury provide a research response that may be summed up as “not very.” The scientists write in their study that the findings were concerning. “We discovered that the code produced […]