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Alan Velasco - Wed, Jun 03, 2026
Meta has deployed an AI support assistant to help handle customer service requests, which is a monumental task considering the company has hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Unfortunately, hackers discovered that it was possible to...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Jun 03, 2026
Minecraft has remained a mainstay in the gaming landscape for over a decade thanks in large part to the abundant number of mods available for the game. Hackers are now weaponizing this prevalence of mods in the Minecraft ecosystem, with...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Jun 03, 2026
Google has rolled out a fake phone call detection feature designed to intercept sophisticated AI voice impersonators and number spoofing scams before users fall victim. Rolling out globally this month as part of the June 2026 Android...
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Chris Harper - Thu, May 28, 2026
A particularly ingenious phishing attack against Microsoft 365 users has caught the FBI's attention, courtesy of Kali365. The new attack, which utilizes the Kali365 Phising-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform, bypasses multi-factor...
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Chris Harper - Thu, May 28, 2026
Solid state drives, named as such for their lack of moving parts, are an essential part of the modern PC ecosystem, but no moving parts does not mean no security vulnerabilities. In fact, the specific manner in which SSDs function...
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Chris Harper - Thu, May 21, 2026
A few week back, aggrieved cybersecurity researcher Nightmare-Eclipse released a pair of Windows exploits dubbed YellowKey and GreenPlasma, following his reveal of three Windows Defender-related zero-days last month. GreenPlasma relates to...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, May 20, 2026
Software developers are increasingly becoming bigger targets for hackers, who are now searching for ways to compromise the software supply chain in an effort to distribute malware. The latest organization to be compromised is the developer...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Apr 21, 2026
Threat actors are getting more creative whendistributing their malware as users become better educated and platforms introduce policy changes to better prevent scams. New malware, however, has been uncovered by the researchers at security...
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Chris Harper - Mon, Feb 23, 2026
iOS users may already be aware of the commercial spyware dubbed Predator, but may not know exactly what it's capable. Fortunately, malware researchers Nir Avraham and Hu Ke have published a detailed write-up on how the Predator spyware...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Feb 19, 2026
Cybersecurity professionals at Threat Fabric have uncovered a campaign utilizing a new piece of malicious software to target Android users. Massiv, a banking trojan, is described by the security researchers as a new Device Takeover malware...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 16, 2026
Attention all Chrome users, Google is rolling out an emergency patch to address a high-severity zero-day security flaw in the world's most popular browser (by market share), and it's not one you want to ignore. That is because Google...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Feb 11, 2026
Microsoft is addressing nearly 60 CVEs with its upcoming "Patch Tuesday" update for Windows 11, six of which are actively-exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. PerKrebsOnSecurity, the most sever CVEs are CVE-2026-21510, CVE-2026-21513...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Feb 05, 2026
As terrifying proof of how much artificial intelligence can compress the cyberattack lifecycle, researchers have documented a real-world AWS cloud intrusion that went from a simple credential leak to full administrative control in under 10...
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Chris Harper - Fri, Jan 16, 2026
Users of Bluetooth accessories bewarea vulnerability was found in the commonly-used Google Fast Pair standard in August of 2025, and an active exploit dubbed WhisperPair is out in the wild. The WhisperPair exploit allows for...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Jan 15, 2026
As AI gets more heavily integrated into Windows, enhanced cybersecurity is required to prevent it from being used against us. Take Reprompt, for example. Reprompt is a Copilot exploit, that can use multi-stage prompts to steal user data...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Dec 13, 2025
Anyone who owns a modern or even semi-modern iPhone or iPad should stop what they're doing and urgently apply Apple's newly released iOS 26.2 update, as it's packed with over two dozen security patches, including multiple ones that are...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 11, 2025
HP Threat Research just issued a new security report detailing a growing trend by attackers towards hijacking session cookies as an alternative means to tried-and-true credential theft. The reason hackers are finding a bigger appetite for sessions cookies is because today's hybrid work...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Dec 11, 2025
The holidays may be upon us, but that isnt slowing down threat actors. Zimperiums zlabs research team has discovered a new piece of malware targeting Android users, dubbed DroidLock, that aims to completely hijack a device and enable the...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Dec 02, 2025
Android users need to be checking their devices for available updates after Googles recent security bulletin listed 107 security flaws in the mobile operating system, which will be fixed in the security patches of 2025-12-05 or later. Two...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Nov 18, 2025
It has been a busy year for the Chrome development team, as they've had to contend with several zero-day security flaws. This latest set of vulnerabilities is of particular concern because Google has evidence of one of them being actively...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Nov 10, 2025
Security researchers have found several alarming security flawsin tooling used by containerization tool Docker that allows attackers to attack the host machine. The flaws specifically relate to runC, which Docker describes as the...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Oct 31, 2025
A new threat in is the wild affecting sites that run WordPress, a popular content management system. Wordfence, a company that focuses onsecurity research in the WordPress ecosystem, is reporting that a vulnerability is affecting the...
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