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Now, even Russia’s most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging […]
Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
“If I can set up the system so that it runs my code when the admin user logs in,” the […]
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
SECURE BOOT NEEDS A REBOOT Old and forgotten “shims” Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple. Finger […]
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers […]
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ […]
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines […]
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
A Linux vulnerability that allows untrusted virtual machines to gain root access to host machines is one of two high-severity […]
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
In the brief history of AI security, the prompt injection has quickly become the top threat. Large language models are […]
Newly discovered PamStealer isn’t your typical macOS malware
Researchers have found a never-before-seen piece of macOS malware that combines a series of clever tradecraft to infect Macs with […]