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Google has released an unscheduled Chrome update to patch a zero-day vulnerability already being exploited in active attacks. The fix is included in stable build 143.0.7499.110 for Windows and macOS, and 143.0.7499.109 for Linux....
Microsoft has released its December security updates: Patch Tuesday brings fixes for 57 vulnerabilities, including three zero-days (one of which is already being actively exploited) and three critical remote-code-execution flaws. Administrators and Windows users...
The investigation in Japan has detained two Chinese nationals suspected of orchestrating the largest known market-manipulation scheme involving hijacked brokerage accounts. The men are accused of violating the law prohibiting unauthorized access and of...
Experts at Doctor Web have identified a new click-fraud trojan, Trojan.ChimeraWire, which disguises itself as the activity of a real user and artificially boosts website engagement metrics in search results. Infected Windows machines automatically...
The financially motivated group Storm-0249, long known as a broker of initial access for ransomware operators, has markedly refined its tradecraft, triggering a new wave of alarm among cybersecurity professionals. Analysts at ReliaQuest have...
A newly discovered vulnerability in Node.js, designated CVE-2025-55182 and informally dubbed React2Shell, has become a favored weapon of botnets within mere days of its disclosure. Operators are now launching widespread attacks against vulnerable web...
The widow of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi has filed a complaint with the French prosecutor’s office, alleging that her phone was infected with Israeli spyware shortly before her husband’s murder. Hanan Elatr Khashoggi...
The International Criminal Court has released a draft policy aimed at confronting crimes committed through digital technologies. The document responds to the growing role of cyber capabilities and artificial intelligence in perpetrating grave international...
DllShimmer Weaponize DLL hijacking easily. Backdoor any function in any DLL without disrupting normal process operation. How it works DllShimmer parses the original DLL and extracts information about exported functions (name, ordinal number, and...
DumpGuard is a credential dumping tool that can extract the NTLMv1 hashes of users on modern Windows systems. The tool relies on the Remote Credential Guard protocol, and allows credential dumping even when Credential Guard is enabled on...
Researchers from Howler Cell have detailed an underground marketplace for compromised websites operated by students and freelancers across Asia. At the center of their latest report is a cybersecurity student from Bangladesh who aspires...
APT-C-53 has once again intensified its distribution of malicious attachments targeting organizations in Ukraine. The latest wave of attacks demonstrates that the group continues to refine its stealth-penetration toolkit and to update its initial-access...