With a hunch, and an hour of AI-assisted scanning, cybersecurity researchers identified and then figured out how to exploit a ...

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PCWorld reports on the ‘BlueHammer’ zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to potentially take over Windows computers through privilege escalation. A frustrated security researcher published the ...

A Virginia man convicted of sexually exploiting a child more than a decade ago has been sentenced in federal court, officials said. Erich Zeeb, 51, was given 28 years in prison on Wednesday by a ...

Drift Protocol said with “medium-high confidence” that the recent attack was carried out by the same actors responsible for the $58 million Radiant Capital hack in October 2024. Drift Protocol, the ...

It’s a case of search-engine failure. Google has issued a security alert to Chrome users after confirming that cybercriminals had exploited a vulnerable system, marking the second such advisory in ...

iPhone users should be on alert: DarkSword spyware has been posted in the wild. Credit: Cheng Xin/Getty Images DarkSword, the web-based hacker tool that can be used to steal data from millions of ...

The exploit, revealed last week by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, is now publicly available on GitHub, increasing the urgency for older iPhones and iPads to run the latest available iOS and ...

They exploited her kindness Posted: March 20, 2026 | Last updated: March 20, 2026 Her generosity was meant to help, not to be taken advantage of. We follow how small favors slowly turned into ...

Threat actors have demonstrated just how quickly they operate today after exploiting a critical open source vulnerability within 20 hours, working only from the advisory description. The bug, CVE-2026 ...