Author: ProHoster

Dirty tricks of CRM vendors: would you buy a car without wheels?

Cellular operators have a very sly saying: “Not a single telecom operator has stolen a penny from subscribers - everything happens out of ignorance, ignorance and oversight of the subscriber.” Why didn’t you go into your personal account and turn off services, why did you press the pop-up button when viewing your balance and subscribe to jokes for 30 rubles. per day, why didn't they check services […]

Elusive Malware Adventures Part II: Hidden VBA Scripts

This article is part of the Fileless Malware series. All other parts of the series: Adventures of the Elusive Malware, Part I Adventures of the Elusive Malware, Part II: Hidden VBA Scripts (we're here) I'm a fan of the hybrid analysis site (hereinafter referred to as HA). This is a kind of malware zoo where you can safely observe wild "predators" from a safe distance without being attacked. HA launches […]

Adventures of the Elusive Malvari, Part I

With this article, we begin a series of publications about elusive malware. Hacking programs that leave no trace of an attack, also known as fileless ("incorporeal", invisible, fileless), typically use PowerShell on Windows systems to covertly execute commands to search for and extract valuable content. Detecting hacker activity without malicious files is a difficult task. antivirus and many more […]

Habr Special // Podcast with the author of the book “Invasion. A Brief History of Russian Hackers"

Habr Special is a podcast to which we will invite programmers, writers, scientists, businessmen and other interesting people. The guest of the first episode is Daniil Turovsky, a special correspondent for Medusa, who wrote the book “Invasion. A Brief History of Russian Hackers." The book has 40 chapters that tell how the Russian-speaking hacker community emerged, first in the late USSR, and then in Russia and […]

AMD Trailer Shows Benefits of New Radeon Anti-Lag Technology

For the long-awaited start of sales of 7nm video cards for Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT video cards based on the new RDNA architecture, AMD has introduced several videos. The previous one was dedicated to the new intelligent feature for sharpening images in games - Radeon Image Sharpening. And the new one talks about Radeon Anti-Lag technology. Delays between user actions on the keyboard, mouse, or controller and […]

Amazon Game Studios Announces Shareware MMORPG Set in The Lord of the Rings Universe

The Gematsu publication, with reference to Amazon Game Studios, published material dedicated to the announcement of a new MMORPG in the Lord of the Rings universe. There is almost no information about the game; the above-mentioned studio is responsible for development together with the Chinese company Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited. The latter was entrusted with supporting the future project and developing a monetization scheme. Vice President of Amazon Game Studios Christoph Hartmann commented […]

Video: 12 minutes of Martian horror in the spirit of Lovecraft in Moons of Madness

In 2017, the Norwegian studio Rock Pocket Games presented its new project in the genre of cosmic horror - Moons of Madness. In March 2019, the developers announced that the game would be released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One "by Halloween" 2019 (in other words, late October or early November), and would be published by Funcom. Now the creators have shared […]

Ex-Tesla employee copied Autopilot source code to his iCloud account

In the US, Tesla's lawsuit continues against its former employee Guangzhi Cao, accused of stealing intellectual property for a new employer. According to court documents released this week, Cao admitted to downloading zip files containing the Autopilot software source code to his personal iCloud account in late 2018. […]

Canon PowerShot G7 X III supports live streaming

Canon has unveiled the PowerShot G7 X III compact camera, which will be available in August for an estimated price of $750. The device uses a 1-inch (13,2 × 8,8 mm) BSI-CMOS CMOS sensor with 20,1 effective pixels and a lens with a 4,2x optical zoom (focal length is 24-100 mm in 35 mm equivalent). The camera allows you to take pictures with a resolution of up to [...]

The Genode Project has published the Sculpt 19.07 General Purpose OS release

The developers of the open microkernel operating system Genode OS Framework have formed the release of the operating system Sculpt 19.07. As part of the Sculpt project, based on Genode technologies, a general-purpose operating system is being developed that can be used by ordinary users to perform everyday tasks. The source texts of the project are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A LiveUSB image is offered for download, 24 MB in size. Supports work on […]

SoftEther VPN Developer Edition 5.01.9671

The SoftEther VPN Developer Edition 5.01.9671 VPN server release is available, which is being developed as a universal and high-performance alternative to OpenVPN and Microsoft VPN products. The code is published under the Apache 2.0 license. The project supports a wide range of VPN protocols, which allows you to use a server based on SoftEther VPN with regular Windows (L2TP, SSTP), macOS (L2TP), iOS (L2TP) and Android (L2TP) clients, as well as […]

Hacking one of the servers of the Pale Moon project with the introduction of malware into the archive of old releases

The author of the Pale Moon browser disclosed information about the compromise of the archive.palemoon.org server, which stored the archive of past releases of the browser up to version 27.6.2 inclusive. During the hack, the attackers infected with malware all the executable files with Pale Moon installers for Windows hosted on the server. According to preliminary data, the malware substitution was carried out on December 27, 2017, and […]