Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells
Ravie LakshmananAug 06, 2026IoT Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "factory-shipped backdoor" implanted in at least...
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Fake Adobe and Zoom Updates Install ScreenConnect for Persistent Remote Access
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active, multi-wave campaign that employs social engineering lures themed around Adobe and Zoom...
Apple and the invisible wolf: AI slop drowns real security threats
The Times details an Italian company called Bynario, which identified a fairly nasty-sounding privilege escalation chain that lets attackers take...
Nine-Year Fraud Campaign Clones Russian Company Sites to Steal Advance Payments
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale fraud campaign that involves creating lookalike websites of major Russian companies with...
Public Exploit Released for Patched vBulletin Pre-Auth Code Execution Flaw
Swati KhandelwalJul 27, 2026Vulnerability / Website Security Public exploit details released on July 27 show how an unauthenticated request can...
Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in...
Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Vulnerability / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe...
Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System
Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System Really interesting piece of cryptographic history: In November 2023, a large cache of...
OpenAI’s GPT-Red Automates Prompt Injection Testing to Harden GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI has disclosed details of GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery with an aim...
TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs...
RabbitMQ Flaws Could Leak OAuth Secrets and Expose Cross-Tenant Queue Metadata
Ravie LakshmananJul 14, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two access control-related flaws impacting the RabbitMQ...
Hackers Weaponize Balochistan Police Portal in Multi-Group Espionage Campaigns
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of sustained cyber espionage activity against several Pakistani law enforcement organizations undertaken by suspected China-...
Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious...
Researchers Detail DifyTap Flaws in Dify That Could Expose AI Chats Across Tenants
Ravie LakshmananJun 22, 2026AI Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of four vulnerabilities in Dify, an open-source agentic...
New OXLOADER Loader Uses Malicious Google Ads to Deliver CastleStealer
Ravie LakshmananJun 22, 2026Malvertising / Endpoint Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that delivers CastleStealer by...
