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Aaron Leong - Fri, Sep 18, 2026
Security researchers in China have unveiled a side-channel attack technique capable of intercepting internal audio played through headphones and landline phones from tens of meters away using injected electromagnetic signals, even through...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Sep 18, 2026
Security researchers at Zimperiums zLabs are sounding the alarm over a new breed of malware dubbed RatHat, which malicious actors are using to compromise Android devices. While RatHat makes use of tried-and-true approaches at various...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Sep 10, 2026
A security flaw in Skullcandy's Dime 3 wireless earphones allows nearby attackers to hijack Bluetooth connections, intercept audio playback, and access built-in microphones without any user interaction or physical...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Sep 09, 2026
Google has begun pushing out Chrome 153 across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, arriving right on the heels of an emergency security patch. This release marks the start of its new two-week major milestone update schedule. First...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Sep 04, 2026
Google has issued an emergency security update for desktop Chrome users across Windows, Mac, and Linux to address a dozen high- and medium-severity vulnerabilities. One of them is a zero-day flaw that Google confirms is being actively...
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Chris Harper - Tue, Sep 01, 2026
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has discovered a new variant of the ClickFix malware campaign we covered last year, and it's been dubbed "TerminalFix." The fundamental nature of the attack is similar in the sense that it also relies on false...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Aug 27, 2026
Federal law enforcement has dismantled a major Chinese state-sponsored cyber-espionage apparatus that targeted critical infrastructure and key government agencies across the United States for nearly eight years. It also makes us wonder...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Aug 24, 2026
Cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky have uncovered a malware downloader that targets Android-based automotive head units, marking the first documented case of malicious code explicitly engineered to compromise vehicle infotainment...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Aug 17, 2026
The National Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) of the Netherlands says it has evidence that hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in one of macOS sharing features, which can provide attackers with complete access over a...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Aug 17, 2026
Apple has issued high-confidence threat notifications to targeted users across 110 countries, warning that their devices may have been targeted by sophisticated mercenary spyware attacks.
The global alert is Cupertino's latest push to...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Aug 05, 2026
Microsoft has discovered a Russian malware campaign called CaptiveCrunch, which is designed to compromise users of public Wi-Fi with falsified prompts at the captive sign-in screen. This includes phishing pages that steal logins or even falsified Windows or Android system update/download...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Aug 04, 2026
Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have uncovered three novel post-compromise attack vectors that allow local malware on Windows PCs to quietly hijack Google-synced passkeys, bypassing biometric checks and PIN...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Jul 29, 2026
Securing the tech supply chain has become one of Washington's biggest priorities, and the latest move takes direct aim at the machines meant to power the next industrial era. The Federal Communications Commission has banned the import and...
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Chris Harper - Tue, Jul 28, 2026
While Steam's anti-malware efforts have improved over the years,malware still winds up on Steam servers on occasion, usually due to it being snuck into Steam Workshop mods. Last time we discussed the problem, it was related...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jul 28, 2026
Microsoft wants to fight AI-powered cyberattacks with AI defenders of its own. The company has unveiled Project Perception, a new agentic security system designed to hunt down weaknesses, investigate threats, and strengthen defenses at...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Jul 28, 2026
A cyberattack on Georgia-based medical billing provider Medical Computer Business Services (MCBS) has exposed sensitive personal and health records of over 1.2 million individuals.
MCBS, an Augusta-headquartered company, which provides...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Jul 27, 2026
NVIDIA has assembled one of the broadest coalitions in recent tech memory to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance, a group built around a single conviction that the people defending our digital infrastructure need open AI tools to do the job...
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Chris Harper - Sat, Jul 25, 2026
A new remote access trojan (RAT) has been discovered by the cybersecurity research team at Cisco Talos, and experts are sounding the alarm since it enables the installation of ransomware on the victim's system. The attack is dubbed msaRAT...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Jul 23, 2026
Another new vulnerability for Microsoft SharePoint, tracked as CVE-2026-50522, is now being actively exploited in the wild, Microsoft warns. Security team watchTowr found evidence of exploits in use, and noted that attacks started the same...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jul 13, 2026
Cyber criminals are constantly looking for new ways to compromise systems and devices, and sometimes that means going back to the well with malware thats been successful in the past. Thats exactly what the researchers at security firm...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Jul 10, 2026
There has never been a better time to be a bug hunter, whether the goal is patching Windows or breaking into it. With AI now capable of digging up software flaws faster than any human team could manage, Microsoft has announced a sweeping...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Jul 02, 2026
Since the introduction of premium iCloud+ in 2021, Apple has offered a privacy-centric feature for its users dubbed Hide My Email. Conceptually, Hide My Email allows iCloud+ users to create anonymous burner email accounts that can't be...
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