New Stealthy Rootkit Infiltrated Networks of High-Profile Organizations

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An unknown threat actor with the capabilities to evolve and tailor its toolset to target environments infiltrated high-profile organizations in Asia and Africa with an evasive Windows rootkit since at …

New Qualcomm Chip Bug Could Let Hackers Spy On Android Devices

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new security vulnerability in Qualcomm’s mobile station modems (MSM) that could potentially allow an attacker to leverage the underlying Android operating system to slip malicious …

New Spectre Flaws in Intel and AMD CPUs Affect Billions of Computers

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When Spectre, a class of critical vulnerabilities impacting modern processors, was publicly revealed in January 2018, the researchers behind the discovery said, “As it is not easy to fix, it will haunt us …

BIOS PrivEsc Bugs Affect Hundreds of Millions of Dell PCs Worldwide

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PC maker Dell has issued an update to fix multiple critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities that went undetected since 2009, potentially allowing attackers to gain kernel-mode privileges and cause a denial-of-service …

ALERT — New 21Nails Exim Bugs Expose Millions of Email Servers to Hacking

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The maintainers of Exim have released patches to remediate as many as 21 security vulnerabilities in its software that could enable unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete remote code execution and gain root …

Apple Releases Urgent Security Patches For Zero‑Day Bugs Under Active Attacks

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Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, macOS, and watchOS to address three zero-day flaws and expand patches for a fourth vulnerability that the company said might have been exploited in the wild. …