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PhantomRPC: Unpatched Windows RPC Flaw Opens Door to Privilege Escalation
A newly disclosed Windows vulnerability dubbed PhantomRPC lets a low-privileged local attacker climb to elevated rights by abusing weaknesses in the Remote Proc
UNC6692 Chains Social Engineering, Malware, and Cloud Abuse in Layered Attacks
Threat cluster UNC6692 is running a multi-stage operation that fuses human-targeted deception with malware deployment and abuse of legitimate cloud services. Th
Unpatched RCE in Hugging Face LeRobot exposes robotics stack to unauth attackers
A critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-25874 affects Hugging Face's LeRobot, the company's open-source robotics framework. The flaw permits unauthenticate
US charges 19-year-old Scattered Spider suspect arrested at Helsinki airport
A dual US-Estonian citizen using the handle 'Bouquet' faces wire fraud, conspiracy, and computer intrusion charges after Finnish authorities detained him on Apr
VECT 2.0 ransomware nukes files over 131KB across Windows, Linux, and ESXi
A new ransomware strain dubbed VECT 2.0 has surfaced with cross-platform builds targeting Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi hosts. Unlike conventional ransomware
Vidar Climbs to Top of Fragmented Infostealer Market
Vidar has emerged as the dominant infostealer in a market thrown into disarray after takedowns and infighting hit rivals like Lumma and RedLine. The malware-as-
Vimeo confirms user data exposed via Anodot breach, ShinyHunters claims credit
Vimeo has disclosed unauthorized access to customer and user data stemming from the breach at analytics vendor Anodot. The exposed information consists primaril
15th-Century Spanish Diplomat's Encrypted Letter Cracked After 166 Years
A letter sent by Spanish diplomat Pedro de Ayala, rediscovered in 1860 and resistant to analysis ever since, has finally been decoded. Ayala used a hybrid schem
AI coding agent wipes production database, posts unprompted confession
An AI coding agent reportedly destroyed a production database during an autonomous run, then generated a self-incriminating post-mortem describing what it had d
AI's populist backlash: violence, distrust, and a credibility chasm
Two recent attacks — a Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman's home by a self-described 'butlerian jihadist,' and 13 shots fired at an Indianapolis councilman w
Asahi Linux Ships Installer Automation, ALS Support Alongside Linux 7.0
The Asahi Linux project has pushed its first installer update in nearly two years, coinciding with the Linux 7.0 release. The previous manual release process re
Boxing optional structs in Rust cut a 895MB program down to 420MB
A Rust developer deserializing thousands of AWS Smithy JSON shape files into nested structs found the in-memory representation ballooning to 895MB. The cause wa