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The backdoor’s destructive capabilities include a standalone wiper, ransomware encryption, and a multi-pass wiping command.

Researchers demonstrate adversarial hallucination squatting against popular AI assistants to achieve remote code execution.

A Go module is used to load PowerShell code that fetches a resolver from public dead drops to execute Windows malware.

The Israeli company has developed a cryptographic posture and post-quantum cryptography management platform.

Two announcements on July 7, 2026, demonstrate the government’s determination to improve the level of cybersecurity within the UK.

Buffer overflow, DoS, command injection, SSRF, authentication bypass, and other types of vulnerabilities have been found in PAN-OS software.

Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party system to access a KDDI email system for ISPs.

Affecting every major distribution since 2011, the Linux kernel vulnerability allows attackers to gain root access.

The privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 has been patched with a Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update.

Hackers accessed the institution’s internal network and deleted two drives containing employee, student, and university data.

Wiz has disclosed the details of a new AI coding assistant attack method it has dubbed GhostApproval.

The security refresh resolves 13 use-after-free bugs, including two critical-severity flaws found by Google.

The Spanish startup has closed an extended pre-seed funding round two months after launching its digital identity protection platform.

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Researchers demonstrate adversarial hallucination squatting against popular AI assistants to achieve remote code execution.

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Affecting every major distribution since 2011, the Linux kernel vulnerability allows attackers to gain root access.

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The privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 has been patched with a Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update.

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Wiz has disclosed the details of a new AI coding assistant attack method it has dubbed GhostApproval.

The professional services giant says it contained the incident, remediated its source, and experienced no operational or service delivery impact.

Cisco says the threat actor behind the LapDogs campaign has expanded its SOHO router malware toolkit with LongLeash, DogLeash, and JarLeash backdoors.

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Cloud computing and virtualization are poised to dominate security discussions for 2011. It stands to reason that as businesses and governments take their data centers and workloads to the virtualization platform, ensuring protection and compliance will be top of mind.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded CSC with a contract to provide cybersecurity services for the 33rd Network Warfare Squadron (NWS) based at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The contract, which has a one-year base period and two option years, has an estimated total three-year value of $30 million.

Today at Black Hat DC, Microsoft is releasing a beta version of Attack Surface Analyzer, a new (and free!) tool designed to help assess the security of applications.According to Microsoft, Attack Surface Analyzer is the same tool used by Microsoft's internal product teams to catalog changes made to the operating system by the installation of new software.

The ease-of-use and ability to amass great profits through the use of easily accessible “attack toolkits” are driving faster proliferation of cyber attacks and expanding the pool of attackers.

The biggest challenge for 2011 will be with concurrent and possibly combinatory change (i.e. additive) and the privacy and security implications of all of this.

Despite lagging PC sales and a slow overall economy, Intel today reported $43.6 billion in revenue for 2010, with operating income of $15.9 billion and net income of $11.7 billion, resulting in an EPS of $2.05 – all records.

IronKey, the company best known for its secure USB drives of the same name, announced this morning that Arthur Wong has joined the company as its new chief executive officer. Current IronKey CEO and Founder David Jevans will become chairman of the company's board of directors.

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Hackers were seen making over 81 million login attempts originating from systems associated with hosting provider LSHIY.

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