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Chrome keeps saved passwords locked behind one master key. VoidStealer steals that key using a tool Chrome cannot block. It does not need administrator rights, …
Reaper swipes macOS passwords and crypto wallets, backdoors the machine, and pretends to be Apple, Microsoft, and Google in the same attack. Apple shipped an …
A Windows zero-day called MiniPlasma gives any standard user full SYSTEM access on a fully patched machine. Microsoft patched it in December 2020, assigned it …
Google caught a criminal group that used AI to find a zero-day in a popular web admin tool and had a working exploit ready for a mass attack against thousands …
ssh-keysign-pwn is a newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability that gives any unprivileged local user direct access to the SSH host private keys of a server …
A folder copied to a USB stick is enough to bypass BitLocker encryption on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 and 2025, giving an attacker with a few minutes of …
NGINX Rift: An 18-year-old memory corruption bug in NGINX, the web server running on roughly one-third of all websites globally, lets an unauthenticated …
Microsoft patched a critical heap buffer overflow in the Windows DNS Client. An attacker needs no account and no help from the person sitting at the machine to …
MacSync is spreading through Google ads that lead directly to claude.ai. The installation guide there was written by Claude itself. One Terminal command and the …
GhostLock locks every shared file on any Windows network in minutes using nothing but a standard login, and every security tool watching stays completely …
A backdoor called PamDOORa targets Linux systems through PAM and steals SSH credentials from every user who logs in. It leaves no trace in process lists, …
A new Linux zero-day called Dirty Frag gives any local user full root access on every major Linux distribution, and right now no distribution has a patched …
Twelve critical vulnerabilities were just published for vm2, a Node.js security library that sits inside millions of applications. Three of them score a perfect …
Google Chrome installed a 4 GB AI model on your machine without asking. The pitch is that it runs locally, keeping your data off Google’s servers. The AI …
Microsoft Edge loads every saved password into memory the moment the browser opens. They sit there in plain readable text for the entire session, even for sites …
Microsoft Defender deleted DigiCert root certificates from Windows machines worldwide and flagged them as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha. Those certificates tell …
Hashcat v7.1.2 has three unpatched vulnerabilities, all rated 9.8 out of 10. The tool that security professionals use to crack passwords can be used to crack …
For 64 days, attackers had root access to cPanel servers managing over 70 million websites, and nobody had to know a single password to get in. A crafted HTTP …
Since 2017, every major Linux distribution has been shipping a flaw that hands root access to any local user. The exploit is a 732-byte Python script that uses …
GitHub RCE CVE. A semicolon broke GitHub. One character in a push option field, and a security researcher was running code on the backend servers that store …
Last week at Black Hat Asia in Singapore, a Kaspersky researcher publicly demonstrated PhantomRPC: five separate ways to take any standard Windows service …
For 21 years, a cyberweapon called fast16 sat completely undetected. This one did not destroy machines or blow things up. It corrupted the math. Scientists …
Bing had a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its backend infrastructure, the same infrastructure that powers Edge, Windows Search, and Copilot integrations across …
Bitwarden’s CLI was backdoored and pushed to npm on April 22, 2026. It was live for 93 minutes. Every developer who installed it during that window has to …
A group of attackers has been quietly poisoning Python packages for five weeks straight. They have exfiltrated data from over 500,000 infected machines, hit …
The security fix Microsoft shipped in 2010 to stop attackers from decrypting ASP.NET traffic and forging authentication cookies just got quietly broken by a …
The Windows Snipping Tool can hand your Windows password hash to an attacker through a single click on a crafted link, and what the victim sees is the familiar …
Two unpatched Windows Defender zero-days have been actively exploited since April 16th, and both of them work on fully patched Windows 10, Windows 11, and …
iTerm2, the terminal emulator that ends up on almost every Mac developer’s machine, is vulnerable to a remote code execution attack that occurs when …
Microsoft 365 mailbox rules are being weaponized as a core technique behind $2.77 billion in annual Business Email Compromise losses, and attackers are creating …