Although humans have traditionally been regarded as the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain, a new study by Canadian researchers reveals that even untrained individuals can effectively detect malicious software when provided with minimal...
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Over the past year, a social engineering technique known as ClickFix has witnessed a meteoric rise, propelled by a fusion of unique delivery methods, persuasive narratives, and sophisticated evasion tactics. According to analysts at...
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The AI-powered code editor Cursor was recently found vulnerable to an attack technique dubbed “MCPoison” by the Check Point research team. This flaw enabled remote execution of arbitrary code on a developer’s machine, provided...
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Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Broadcom ControlVault microchip, a component responsible for storing sensitive data on over a hundred models of Dell laptops. According to Cisco Talos, this cluster of vulnerabilities allows...
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In recent months, cybercriminals have once again turned their attention to long-known vulnerabilities in popular models of D-Link Wi-Fi cameras and network video recorders. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has officially...
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Adobe has issued an out-of-band security update for its Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms platform on Java EE, following the public disclosure of an exploit chain that enables unauthenticated remote code execution on vulnerable...
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ProtectMyTooling A script that wraps around a multitude of packers, protectors, obfuscators, shellcode loaders, encoders, and generators to produce complex protected Red Team implants. Your perfect companion in Malware Development CI/CD pipeline, helping watermark...
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jscythe jscythe abuses the node.js inspector mechanism in order to force any node.js/electron/v8 based process to execute arbitrary javascript code, even if their debugging capabilities are disabled. Tested and working against Visual Studio Code, Discord, any...
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As the Pentagon grapples with the consequences of funding shortfalls and high turnover in the field of cybersecurity, Donald Trump’s inner circle is floating a bold proposal: the creation of a new combat branch—Cyber...
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A recent automated study conducted by ETHIACK has revealed that modern web application security mechanisms—including widely adopted Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)—are vulnerable to a novel class of attacks that combine JavaScript injection with HTTP...
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Amid the rapid proliferation of cryptocurrency ATMs across the United States, the Department of the Treasury has issued a warning about the growing risk of their exploitation for illicit purposes. In a recently published...
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Generative AI models are rapidly evolving into fully-fledged instruments within the arsenals of cyber adversaries. This trend is underscored in CrowdStrike’s 2025 annual report, which highlights a sharp increase in the use of artificial...
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A large-scale campaign exploiting a chain of vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint continues to escalate—this time with the active involvement of ransomware groups. During an investigation into a series of coordinated attacks, researchers at Palo...
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At first glance, static RAM (SRAM) appeared to be a reliable sanctuary for sensitive data. Embedded directly within the processor die and incapable of retaining information once power is cut, it was long considered...
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The French fashion house Chanel has become the latest victim of an ongoing data compromise campaign targeting users of the Salesforce platform, suffering a breach of personal client information in the United States. The...
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pamspy — Credentials Dumper for Linux pamspy leverages eBPF technologies to achieve an equivalent work of 3snake. It will track a particular userland function inside the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) library, used by many...
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evilgophish Combination of evilginx2 and GoPhish. Why? As a penetration tester or red teamer, you may have heard of evilginx2 as a proxy man-in-the-middle framework capable of bypassing two-factor/multi-factor authentication. This is enticing to us, to say the...
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Critical vulnerabilities discovered in the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server platform pose a significant threat to the security of AI infrastructure across both Windows and Linux environments. This concerns an open-source solution designed for large-scale...
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Proton, a company renowned for its commitment to privacy and security, made an unfortunate misstep in its latest offering—Proton Authenticator, a two-factor authentication app. In the iOS version, users’ TOTP secrets—used to generate one-time...
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Apple is developing its own AI engine for answering questions—akin to ChatGPT—according to a report by Bloomberg. The initiative is being led by a newly formed internal team known as Answers, Knowledge, and Information...
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