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At DEF CON 33, researchers from SafeBreach unveiled a new attack technique dubbed Win-DDoS, capable of transforming thousands of publicly accessible domain controllers (DCs) worldwide into a powerful botnet for large-scale DDoS attacks. The...
Researchers at Eclypsium have uncovered critical vulnerabilities in the Lenovo 510 FHD and Lenovo Performance FHD webcams that allow them to be transformed into BadUSB-style attack devices. The issue, dubbed BadCam, was presented at...
Linus Torvalds delivered a sharp rebuke to the initial batch of RISC-V patches proposed for inclusion in Linux 6.17, citing both their untimely submission and the presence of what he called “garbage” changes unrelated...
After more than two years of development, the Debian Project has unveiled a new stable release of its operating system—Debian 13, codenamed trixie. It will receive updates and security fixes for five years, thanks...
In 2024, Americans over the age of 60 lost an astronomical $700 million to online fraud—a record high in the entire history of monitoring by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The latest Consumer...
After Grok-4 was compromised in just two days, GPT-5 fell within a mere 24 hours to the same group of researchers. Almost simultaneously, the SPLX testing team (formerly SplxAI) declared: “Out-of-the-box GPT-5 is practically...
A recently patched vulnerability in WinRAR, identified as CVE-2025-8088, was exploited in targeted phishing attacks even before a fix became available. The flaw, classified as a Directory Traversal vulnerability and addressed only in WinRAR...
Experts at Claroty have uncovered a series of critical vulnerabilities in Axis Communications’ video surveillance product line which, if successfully exploited, could grant an attacker complete control over the affected devices. At risk are...
The group behind the SocGholish malware has intensified its use of the Parrot TDS and Keitaro TDS traffic distribution systems to filter visitors and redirect them to malicious destinations. According to Silent Push, the...
U.S. law enforcement has revealed details of an international operation that dismantled the core infrastructure of the BlackSuit ransomware gang, notorious for a series of devastating cyberattacks. Nearly two weeks ago, the group’s dark...
Microsoft, in coordination with federal agencies, has issued a warning about a newly discovered, high-severity vulnerability in hybrid Exchange Server deployments that could allow an attacker with existing access to an on-premises server to...
A researcher operating under the pseudonym dead1nfluence has discovered that the Internet Archive contains over 130,000 recorded conversations with popular chatbots — including Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and others. This finding suggests that with improper...