Critical cPanel flaw under attack, Copy Fail Linux privilege escalation, TeamPCP supply chain campaign, GitHub RCE & major ...

This week, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK), in concert with cybersecurity agencies in the US and other countries, warned of China-nexus threat actors increasingly using covert ...

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

Cybersecurity in 2026 is facing a convergence of escalating threats and rapid defensive innovation. A record-breaking botnet has fueled massive DDoS attacks, while Vercel’s April breach has been ...

A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, ...

Cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs says smart TVs and even wifi routers can be conduits for malicious software that infect home devices. Routers, computers, web cameras — they all connect to the ...

A newly identified malware campaign has been observed exploiting a command injection flaw in digital video recorder (DVR) devices to deploy a Mirai-based botnet, according to analysis by FortiGuard ...

Open source software with more than 1 million monthly downloads was compromised after a threat actor exploited a ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

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