Tag: Riot Games
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The Support Trap: How Hackers Turned Zendesk Into a Global Spam Engine
Since mid-January, a global surge of erratic electronic correspondence has provoked widespread consternation among users. The catalyst for this deluge was a vulnerability within the Zendesk customer support infrastructure, which malevolent actors subverted into an instrument for extensive spam dissemination. The inaugural wave of this digital inundation was documented on January 18. Recipients reported receiving…
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Critical UEFI Flaw Bypasses All Early-Boot Protections
Researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in the UEFI firmware implementations used on motherboards from several major manufacturers, including ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock. The flaw affects the earliest stage of system boot and enables attacks based on direct memory access, bypassing security mechanisms that are meant to operate before the operating system even begins to…