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Taiwanese company QNAP has warned customers to secure network-attached storage (NAS) appliances and routers against a new ransomware variant called DeadBolt."D…
samba: Out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in VFS module vfs_fruit allows code execution (CVE-2021-44142) For more details about the security issue(s),…
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apache Log4j 1.2, a Java logging framework, when it is configured to use JMSSink, JDBCAppender, JMSAp…
Apple last year fixed a new set of macOS vulnerabilities that exposed Safari browser to attack, potentially allowing malicious actors to access users' online a…
Microsoft this week revealed that it had fended off a record number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at its customers in 2021, three of wh…
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat, the XML parsing C library. Integer overflows or invalid shifts may lead to a denial of service…
Infrastructure security is important to get right so that attacks can be prevented''or, in the case of a successful attack, damage can be minimized. It is espe…
Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale, multi-phase phishing campaign that uses stolen credentials to register devices on a victim's network to furth…
2021 was a year peppered by cyberattacks, with numerous data breaches happening. Not only that, but ransomware has also become a prominent player in the hacker…
A cyberespionage group with ties to North Korea has resurfaced with a stealthier variant of its remote access trojan called Konni to attack political instituti…
XSS in handling an attachment's filename extension when displaying a MIME type warning message (CVE-2021-44025). Potential SQL injection via search or search_p…
A financially-motivated malware campaign has compromised over 800 WordPress websites to deliver a banking trojan dubbed Chaes targeting Brazilian customers of …
The potent Android trojan BRATA has acquired new capabilities its latest variant. Researchers found the…New BRATA Android Trojan Variants Exhibit More Sneaky F…
A vulnerability in polkit could lead to local root privilege escalation.
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in uriparser, a library that parses Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), which may result in denial of service or potential…
polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector (CVE-2021-4034) For more details about the security issue(s), includi…
Macros-enabled documents have long been a potent vector for malware threats. Nonetheless, Microsoft now blocks…Microsoft Restricts Excel 4.0 Macros By Default …
Researchers have disclosed details of two critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-45467) in Control Web Panel, an open-source Linux control panel software …
A flaw was identified in how phpMyAdmin processes two factor authentication; a user could potentially manipulate their account to bypass two factor authenticat…
A previously undocumentedmalware packernamed DTPacker has been observed distributing multiple remote access trojans (RATs) and information stealers such as Age…
A serious code injection vulnerability riddled the WordPress HTML Mail plugin, thus potentially putting thousands…Code Injection Vulnerability Found In HTML Ma…
The Qualys Research Labs discovered two vulnerabilities in util-linux's libmount. These flaws allow an unprivileged user to unmount other users' filesystems th…
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform SQL injection, run unchecked SQL queries, b…
Multiple security issues were discovered in Pillow, a Python imaging library, which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrar…