Entangled photons were sent between two drones hovering a kilometer apart, demonstrating technology that could become the building block of the quantum Internet. Scientists have used octocopters to send quantum-coupled photons over long distances. In an article published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the researchers describe the sending of entangled particles from one drone to another and from the drone to the ground. Entangled photons used to be carried over 1,000 kilometers between a satellite and ground stations, but now Zhengda Xie of Nanjing University in China and his collea ..read more

 A bug in Windows 10 causes the OS to crash with a blue screen of death (BSOD) if the user tries to open a specific path in the browser address bar or uses other Windows commands. Last week, Twitter posted messages from a security researcher about two vulnerabilities in Windows that could be exploited by cybercriminals in different attacks. The first vulnerability allows an unprivileged user or program to issue a single command to mark an NTFS volume as damaged. Although chkdsk has successfully resolved this issue in a number of tests, in one test, the command damaged the hard drive, w ..read more

IObit has been the victim of a large-scale cyberattack aimed at distributing the DeroHE ransomware among its forum participants. IObit is a software developer known for its Windows system optimization and anti-malware programs such as Advanced SystemCare. As reported by BleepingComputer, members of the IObit forum began to receive emails purportedly sent from IObit offering a free one year software license as a special benefit of participating in the forum. The email contained a GET NOW link redirecting to a site (hxxps: //forums.iobit.com/promo.html) that was distributing a malicious file ..read more

The FBI has reported a malicious cyber operation called Enemies of the People, conducted by Iranian hackers against the US federal government, state governments and civilians. The FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued the first cyber warnings Enemies of the People in December 2020. Then it was reported that the main site of cybercriminals (enemiesofthepeople.org) was disabled. However, according to a new notice, the campaign has resumed again, and attackers have found new ways to spread their messages. “Iranian cybercriminals tried to intimidate some offici ..read more

According to a study by Atlas VPN experts, US citizens are much more worried about their personal data being stolen than about murder. With headlines around the world dominated by reports of national security breaches, data breaches of large enterprises, and similar cybersecurity concerns, the fears seem justified. Specialists of the American analytical and consulting company Gallup conducted a telephone survey of Americans in order to find out what types of crimes worry them the most. A total of 1,035 US respondents aged 18 and over took part in the survey. Cybercrime is the biggest fear ..read more

The leadership of the messenger allegedly did not stop extremist conversations on the eve of the storming of the Capitol in Washington on January 6 this year. Coalition for a Safer Web, a Washington-based non-profit organization, has sued Apple to remove the Telegram messenger from the App Store for failing to stop extremist conversations ahead of the storming of the Capitol in Washington on January 6 this year. According to the lawsuit , Telegram administrators did not take the necessary measures to suppress the spread of such messages. According to experts, the lawsuit is an attempt to p ..read more

The past week was marked by a number of interesting events, although overall it turned out to be quite calm in terms of incidents involving ransomware. In particular, the source code of the ransomware ChastityLock, which is used to carry out attacks on users of the "smart" Bluetooth male chastity lock, is publicly available for research purposes. Security researcher Jakub Kroustek has discovered three new variants of Dharma ransomware that add the .hub, .aol or .14x extension to encrypted files. Intel announced at CES 2021 that it is embedding hardware-based ransomware detection in its rec ..read more

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have posed several ethical dilemmas, one of which is whether humanity can control autonomous machines. An international team of researchers has warned of the potential risks of creating overly powerful and standalone software. Using a series of theoretical calculations, scientists have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to completely control such an AI. Scientists have experimented with two ways to control artificial intelligence.  One of them is to isolate AI from the Net and other devices, limiting contact with the outside wo ..read more

Cybercriminals use the usual harmless Windows Finger command to download and install a malicious backdoor on victims' devices. Finger command is a utility created in Linux / Unix operating systems that allows you to locally obtain a list of users on a remote computer or information about a specific remote user. In addition to Linux, Windows has a finger.exe command that performs the same function. To execute the Finger command, the user must enter finger [user] @ [remote_host]. Security researcher Kirk Sayre discovered a phishing campaign that used the Finger command to download the MineBr ..read more

The administration of the largest darknet trading platform Joker's Stash, specializing in the sale of compromised payment data, announced its intention to scale back its operations on February 15, 2021. The operator of the site, someone under the pseudonym JokerStash, said on a Russian-language cybercriminal forum that "it's time for us to leave forever" and "we will never open again." “The Joker is retiring on a well-deserved retirement. Joker's Stash is closing. When we opened a few years ago, no one knew us. Today we are one of the largest markets for cards / dumps, ”the message says. T ..read more