11+ hour, 40+ min ago  (113+ words) Deccan Herald Bengaluru: A 42-year-old housewife's WhatsApp account was hacked and her morphed obscene videos were shared on a group on the messenger app, officials said on Wednesday..The woman is a resident of MV Layout There were multiple attempts…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago  (597+ words) “Consent is not a choice. Responsibility is scattered down the chain.” Senior analyst at the Bengaluru-based Aapti Institute, and a researcher working on the design of technology and data governance. Currently focused on digital and data infrastructure affecting displaced and…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (429+ words) The malware targets a broad range of Linux-based systems and uses Telnet credential brute forcing, scanning modules, encrypted command-and-control (C2), and multiple resilience features The botnet carries 1,496 username-and-password pairs aimed at devices still using factory or commonly reused credentials. Its Telnet…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago  (520+ words) Cybersecurity companies Trend Micro, ESET, Tenable, and Tanium released product updates this month to patch severe vulnerabilities. Tenable told customers this week that it has fixed a critical-severity path traversal in the Tenable Agent. The security hole, tracked as CVE…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago  (551+ words) TuxBot v3 Evolution, a modular IoT botnet framework capable of infecting devices running architectures ranging from ARM and MIPS to x86_64, PowerPC and RISC-V. The platform appears designed for mass compromise, persistence and distributed denial-of-service operations, with a C-based bot agent and…...

1+ hour, 54+ min ago  (558+ words) A security researcher reported that the GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra model successfully produced a working renderer exploit for Chrome version 149.0.7827.201. This exploit utilized V8 version 14.9.207.35. The model reportedly combined multiple patched issues in the JavaScript engine and WebAssembly infrastructure, ultimately launching the…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago  (498+ words) The China-linked Daxin backdoor has resurfaced in an active intrusion targeting a Taiwan-based subsidiary of a multinational high-tech manufacturer, exposing the enduring reach of an espionage operation first publicly detailed in 2022. Daxin’s return is significant because the malware was already…...

3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (360+ words) CISA is urging organisations to review their routers and network equipment to prevent attacks exploiting the long-standing flaw. Many routers and network devices remain in service for years without proper maintenance, making them attractive targets for cybercriminals–even when the…...

13+ hour, 13+ min ago  (1605+ words) It is also important to separate wormable conditions from a confirmed worm. A network-reachable, unauthenticated, no-interaction RCE may provide the conditions needed for automated propagation. That does not prove that reliable code execution, target discovery, payload transfer, and self-propagation have…...

3+ hour, 30+ min ago  (927+ words) A former member of Morocco’s domestic intelligence service has helped to provide an unprecedented insight into how the north African state used hacking software – including Pegasus spyware – to target journalists, human rights defenders, French politicians and Spanish cabinet ministers and…...