Items tagged with cybersecurity
The folks at Bitdefender have discovered a new type of malicious Android app that can force a phone into a nigh-unfixable boot loop without the app even being launched.
If the app is installation is kicked off and either Android 17 or...
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New information has come to light over the 2025 cybersecurity breach at Harvard University whereby a reported 851,000 accounts within its alumni and development systems were exposed.
The intrusion originally unfolded from a...
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A newly-revealed UEFI exploit has entered the public sphere as CVE-2026-97631, and since it targets the TianoCore EDK2 open source codebase used by virtually all major manufacturers for their servers' UEFI firmware, enterprise and...
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Organizations utilizing Dell’s System Update (DSU) tools to manage their server infrastructure need to patch their software as quickly as possible. The company has pushed an update to address several major security issues, with the most...
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The ongoing virtual cat-and-mouse game between the FBI and one of the world's most aggressive cybercrime collectives, ShinyHunters, might be coming to an end, thanks to the arrests of key members and seizure of the groups digital...
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If you, your business, or someone you know rely on the use of WordPress in any way, applying patches immediately is essential to prevent possible compromise by a Remote Code Execution (RCE) attack. To be specific, security company...
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Security researchers at Zimperium’s 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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Remember over a year ago when we reported on the ClickFix malware that uses fake CAPTCHA mechanisms to dupe unwitting victims into pwning their own machines? Well, apparently not enough people shared that post, because the problem has...
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The security research team at Zimperium’s zLabs has uncovered a new strain of malware targeting Android devices, which not only looks to pilfer a victim’s data but also inflict maximum psychological damage. It has been dubbed 'Mantax Otax'...
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Keyword smuggling, which is the practice of obfuscating spam keywords to bypass detection filters, has been common practice for quite some time. Microsoft is warning that this traditional tactic has been enhanced by a new-school method of...
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Microsoft has announced that starting with October's Patch Tuesday update, Windows 11 will automatically enable Memory Integrity on all eligible PCs where the feature is currently turned off. Also known as Hypervisor-protected Code...
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Microsoft nemesis Nightmare-Eclipse is at it again, this time with a bypass exploit for his original RoguePlanet Windows Defender privilege escalation exploit. The new exploit, dubbed ShieldBreak, also allows for elevation of privilege...
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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 victim’s...
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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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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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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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The CERT Coordination Center warns that Wi-Fi routers built by Tenda may have a hidden, authentication backdoor in firmware. Researchers from CERT, the Computer Emergency Response Team for the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie...
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Microsoft's drive to improve Windows security with AI-driven vulnerability discovery has led to another record-breaking Patch Tuesday. This time around, there's a whopping 570 security fixes for Windows 11, which is more than double the...
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As it turns out, the batch of expiring Secure Boot certificates isn't the only Secure Boot-related concern that Microsoft and the public need to worry about this year. ESET Researchers have uncovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders...
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Many Mac users believe that they don’t need to worry about security because macOS is more secure and a smaller platform that isn’t worth targeting, but that’s just not true. A new piece of malware, dubbed CrashStealer, was discovered by...
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Cyber criminals are constantly looking for new ways to compromise systems and devices, and sometimes that means going back to the well with malware that’s been successful in the past. That’s exactly what the researchers at security firm...
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The open source, enterprise email software Zimbra was recently updated to version 10.1.19, and parent company Synacor urged users to update as soon as possible. Specifically, the update addresses a vulnerability in the Classic Web Client...
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