Microsoft Warns of Critical “PrintNightmare” Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild

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Microsoft on Thursday officially confirmed that the “PrintNightmare” remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting Windows Print Spooler is different from the issue the company addressed as part of its Patch …

IndigoZebra APT Hacking Campaign Targets the Afghan Government

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Cybersecurity researchers are warning of ongoing attacks coordinated by a suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor targeting the Afghanistan government as part of an espionage campaign that may have had its provenance …

Microsoft Discloses Critical Bugs Allowing Takeover of NETGEAR Routers

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Cybersecurity researchers have detailed critical security vulnerabilities affecting NETGEAR DGN2200v1 series routers, which they say could be reliably abused as a jumping-off point to compromise a network’s security and gain unfettered …

Researchers Leak PoC Exploit for a Critical Windows RCE Vulnerability

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A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit related to a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Windows Print Spooler and patched by Microsoft earlier this month was briefly published online before being taken down. …

GitHub Launches ‘Copilot’ — AI-Powered Code Completion Tool

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GitHub on Tuesday launched a technical preview of a new AI-powered pair programming tool that aims to help software developers write better code across a variety of programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, …

Unpatched Virtual Machine Takeover Bug Affects Google Compute Engine

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An unpatched security vulnerability affecting Google’s Compute Engine platform could be abused by an attacker to take over virtual machines over the network. “This is done by impersonating the metadata …