News related to computer security, privacy and data protection
The official website of JDownloader suffered an intrusion in the first week of May 2026 which resulted in the distribution of stranded installers for both Windows and Linux; the c…
A sophisticated campaign exploited confidence in Hugging Face's model repositories by uploading a piece of malware that posed as the legitimate OpenAI project called "Privacy Filt…
cPanel has published patches for three security failures in cPanel & WHM that, in different scenarios, allow from arbitrary file reading to remote code execution and mismodificati…
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a massive campaign of fraudulent applications on Google Play that promised, without any technical basis, to show call histories, SMS and W…
The industry's reports are clear: the attackers accelerate and our metrics do not improve at the same speed. Recent reports like Google's M-Trends analysis of threat trends show a…
Trend Micro has detailed a Linux implant that specifically points to development and operations environments, baptized as Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX); its design combines systematic t…
A new backdoor for Linux baptized as PamDOORa has been described by security researchers and put on sale in cybercrime forums, which again puts the focus on an old but dangerous v…
The verdict against Sohaib Akhter, who was found guilty of conspiring to erase dozens of government databases after being fired as a federal contractor, replaces a recurring but i…
A new zero-day in Linux, baptized as Dirty Frag, allows a local attacker to climb privileges to root in most distributions with a single order, according to researcher Hyunwoo Kim…
