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For 15 years, a single crafted web request could quietly take over an nginx server, the software that receives and routes incoming traffic for roughly a third …
You opened an archive in 7-Zip, and the code that let it take over your machine had been sitting there since 2018. It was quietly patched on June 25. You were …
For weeks he promised that July 14 would shatter Microsoft’s bones. Patch Tuesday came, Microsoft closed a record 622 holes, and hours later he dropped …
A hole in WordPress handed your database to someone who never logged in. For 227 days it took one request. It needed no password and no plugin, just an address …
Some malware loads before Windows even starts, before your antivirus exists. It survives a full reinstall, and 11 files signed by Microsoft are all it takes. …
IonStack You tap one link, and root is already running on your Android 17 phone. You never download a file or approve a permission box because the page does the …
You are completely anonymous and think no one can trace you. But Windows put a permanent number on your machine, it never turns off, and that number is where …
TrojPix pulled a file off a computer that connects to nothing. 8.1 megabits a second. 208 meters away. Straight through a 30 cm concrete wall. It went out over …
JADEPUFFER is the first documented ransomware operation run by an AI agent. The agent broke in, stole credentials, jumped to a second target, encrypted a …
Millions of devices read an SD card with one small piece of code called FatFs, and researchers just found seven ways to break it. The worst one hands the whole …
Your AI assistant just sent you to a login page that did not exist a few weeks ago, and the person who registered it is already collecting the passwords people …
You unzipped a file with WinRAR, the way you always do. Nothing on screen looked wrong. The next morning you logged in and malware was already running, and the …
A Docker container on a Gitea build runner can break out to root on the host, the setting built to stop that does nothing, and there is no patch yet. CVSS 9.9. …
A flaw in the Linux kernel called pedit COW lets a regular, unprivileged user rewrite /bin/su in memory and become root, while the copy on disk never changes …
Google told a security researcher his bug was a nice catch, lined up his payout, then eleven days later called it harmless and refused to pay a cent. The flaw …
usbliter8 takes control of the iPhone XS and iPhone 11 before iOS even loads, and no update Apple ships can ever close it. The flaw lives in the SecureROM, the …
FortiBleed Fortinet credential leak. Attackers can log into more than 80,000 corporate firewalls right now, and on 2,645 of them the password was 123456. The …
A 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD let attackers bypass its PPP login with nothing more than an empty username and an empty password. Hand a vulnerable system a …
1.2 million WordPress sites were caught in a supply chain attack last week, where the admin’s own login quietly created a secret account and planted a …
More than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) were hijacked this week, and the attacker never broke into a single system to do it. They took over …
Nightmare-Eclipse is back again, this time with a BitLocker bypass called GreatXML that runs straight through Microsoft’s own antivirus. On a Windows …
GitHub disabled 73 of Microsoft’s own repositories in 105 seconds, after a worm called Miasma planted a credential stealer inside Microsoft’s Azure …
Nightmare-Eclipse is back, with a new exploit called RoguePlanet. Windows 10 and 11 have a new zero-day that lets a user with no rights take complete control of …
One extra character in the Linux kernel hands a normal user root. A single ! that does not belong inside nftables, the firewall built into Debian and Ubuntu by …
Internet Explorer can still take over a fully patched Windows machine, years after Microsoft retired it in 2022. The code that ran it was never removed from …
A single visit to one website can quietly turn your browser into part of a botnet, and the working code to do it is now still sitting out in the open. It …
Your phone, your TV, your router, anything in your home with an internet connection can be put to work crawling the web for the AI industry, and nothing on the …
A new exploit called HTTP/2 Bomb lets one ordinary home computer take down nginx, Apache, Microsoft IIS, Envoy and Cloudflare Pingora, the web servers behind a …
Hackers took over some of the most valuable accounts on Instagram over the weekend by asking Meta’s own AI support bot to hand them the keys, and it …
Six working Windows attacks are sitting in the open right now, three of them already seen in a real intrusion, and the researcher who published them did it …