A few months ago, technology giant Microsoft issued a fix for a flaw in the Windows operating system that allowed hackers to raise their permissions to kernel level on an affected machine; however, the patch did not stick. The issue, which was cashed in on by progressive hackers as a Continue Reading
This week, law enforcement agencies from the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have captured the web domains and server infrastructure of three VPN services that offered a safe haven for hackers to attack their victims. The three services, active for over a decade, are reported to be Continue Reading
On Monday, a team of researchers revealed two critical security flaws it found in Dell Wyse Thin clients that could have possibly let hackers remotely perform malevolent code and access arbitrary files on compromised devices. Discovered by CyberMDX, a company that specializes in healthcare cybersecurity, the flaws can be leveraged Continue Reading
An academic research group said today that at least 36 Al Jazeera journalists, producers, anchors, and executives, along with a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV, had their iPhones hacked using a zero-day no-user contact vulnerability in the iOS iMessage app. Citizen Lab, a research group on cybersecurity and human Continue Reading
Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy have joined hands to come up with a kill switch for the SolarWinds Sunburst backdoor that compels the malware to axe itself. It was divulged during the last weekend that Russian state-sponsored cybercriminals breached SolarWinds and added malicious code to a Windows DLL file used by Continue Reading
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