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A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions, that can execute commands on a computer simply by opening an archive. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2023-40477 and could give remote attackers...

Hackers claim to have breached the network of a major auction house and offered access to whoever was willing to pay $120,000. Security researchers found the advertisement on a hacker forum known for providing a market for initial access brokers (IABs) after analyzing...

Google has announced plans to add a new feature in the upcoming version of its Chrome web browser to alert users when an extension they have installed has been removed from the Chrome Web Store. The feature, set for release alongside Chrome 117, allows users to be...

Networking hardware company Juniper Networks has released an "out-of-cycle" security update to address multiple flaws in the J-Web component of Junos OS that could be combined to achieve remote code execution on susceptible installations. The four vulnerabilities have...

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of an advanced fingerprinting and redirection toolkit called WoofLocker that's engineered to conduct tech support scams. The sophisticated traffic redirection scheme was first documented by Malwarebytes in...

The data of 760,000 Discord.io members has been advertised for sale on a darknet forum by a hacker using the pseudonym “Akhirah”. On Monday, August 14, 2023, a data breach seriously endangered almost 760K customers’ data privacy. Using the platform Discord.io, users...

One in three students at British universities encountered fraud attempts online last year, according to a new study from NatWest. The high street lender commissioned consulting firm RedBrick to poll over 3000 UK university students from 63 towns and cities back in...

LinkedIn is being targeted in a wave of account hacks resulting in many accounts being locked out for security reasons or ultimately hijacked by attackers. As reported today by Cyberint, many LinkedIn users have been complaining about the account takeovers or lockouts...

Cumbria Police has acknowledged a data breach that resulted in online publication of names and salaries for all its personnel. This incident follows an "industrial scale breach of data" at the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) last week, which saw certain...

Google has announced plans to add support for quantum-resistant encryption algorithms in its Chrome browser, starting with version 116. "Chrome will begin supporting X25519Kyber768 for establishing symmetric secrets in TLS, starting in Chrome 116, and available behind...