The Illusion of Early-Stage Security The Secure Boot mechanism must block malicious code before Windows or Linux even launches. However, ESET researchers recently made a startling discovery. Specifically, attackers could bypass this protection almost...
Within the shadowy recesses of a subterranean darknet forum, a highly anomalous lot has materialized: an unidentified vendor is offering a Windows vulnerability for the staggering sum of $220,000. This architectural flaw afflicts the...
A newly discovered flaw in the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan) service allows the operating system to be disrupted without administrative privileges. A free, unofficial fix is already available, while Microsoft prepares its...
Microsoft has quietly patched a long-standing flaw in Windows that had been exploited in real-world attacks for several years. The fix arrived in the November Patch Tuesday release, even though the company had previously...
A recently disclosed vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiver is already being weaponized in real-world attacks, according to a statement from NHS England Digital. The notice underscores that the flaw affects a widely used archival...
COMmander is a tool written in C# that can enrich defensive telemetry around RPC and COM. For a detailed blog post on the development of the tool and ruleset, see Jacob Acuna’s blog post COMmander leverages...
Windows is receiving a major security and resilience upgrade that reshapes how the operating system manages agent-based mechanisms, protects data, and restores devices after failures. Microsoft has expanded the feature set by building on...
Trend Research has detailed a new wave of attacks carried out by the Agenda ransomware group, which has developed the ability to execute a Linux variant of its encryptor within Windows-based environments. This tactic...
Beginning with the October 2025 Windows security updates, File Explorer now automatically blocks the preview of files downloaded from the internet. Introduced in the October 14, 2025 update, this change aims to prevent the...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a newly discovered flaw in the Windows SMB component to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-33073, stems from an...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning that a vulnerability in the Windows SMB protocol, identified as CVE-2025-33073, is already being actively exploited in real-world attacks. Classified as a...
Since the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in 7-Zip, the situation has escalated sharply: functional proof-of-concept exploits are now publicly available that reproduce attacks by altering extraction paths and injecting arbitrary files. This elevates...
