Brave browser experienced its most significant growth month ever in May 2024, now used by more than 78.95 million monthly users, up 7.3%. […]
Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to “infect” over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular ‘Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs. […]
New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token
Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company’s GitHub repositories in January 2024, The Times confirmed to BleepingComputer. […]
DDoS attacks target EU political parties as elections begin
Hacktivists are conducting DDoS attacks on European political parties that represent and promote strategies opposing their interests, according to a report by Cloudflare. […]
New PHP Vulnerability Exposes Windows Servers to Remote Code Execution
Details have emerged about a new critical security flaw impacting PHP that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, has been described as a CGI argument injection vulnerability affecting all versions of PHP installed on the Windows operating system.
According to DEVCORE security researcher, the shortcoming makes
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, has been described as a CGI argument injection vulnerability affecting all versions of PHP installed on the Windows operating system.
According to DEVCORE security researcher, the shortcoming makes
Microsoft Revamps Controversial AI-Powered Recall Feature Amid Privacy Concerns
Microsoft on Friday said it will disable its much-criticized artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature by default and make it an opt-in.
Recall, currently in preview and coming exclusively to Copilot+ PCs on June 18, 2024, functions as an “explorable visual timeline” by capturing screenshots of what appears on users’ screens every five seconds, which are subsequently analyzed and
Recall, currently in preview and coming exclusively to Copilot+ PCs on June 18, 2024, functions as an “explorable visual timeline” by capturing screenshots of what appears on users’ screens every five seconds, which are subsequently analyzed and
LastPass says 12-hour outage caused by bad Chrome extension update
LastPass says its almost 12-hour outage yesterday was caused by a bad update to its Google Chrome extension. […]
Apple to unveil new ‘Passwords’ password manager app for iPhones, Macs
Apple will reportedly unveil a standalone password manager named ‘Passwords’ as part of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 during the upcoming Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. […]
Christie’s starts notifying clients of RansomHub data breach
British auction house Christie’s is notifying individuals whose data was stolen by the RansomHub ransomware gang in a recent network breach. […]
Frontier warns 750,000 of a data breach after extortion threats
Frontier Communications is warning 750,000 customers that their information was exposed in a data breach after an April cyberattack claimed by the RansomHub ransomware operation. […]