A flaw in the Linux kernel's traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user gain root on affected systems. The exploit never touches the file on disk. It poisons the cached copy of a ...

Researchers disclosed usbliter8, a SecureROM exploit affecting older Apple devices that can bypass boot protections with physical access. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Paradigm Shift have revealed ...

Security research firm Paradigm Shift today published details of a new BootROM vulnerability affecting Apple's A12 and A13 chips, along with a working proof-of-concept exploit named "usbliter8." The ...

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Exploiting a race condition in Microsoft Defender, the exploit leads to local privilege escalation to SYSTEM. A security researcher has released another zero-day exploit targeting Microsoft’s Windows ...

The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over accounts using a bug in the company’s new artificial intelligence software. By Mike Isaac and Eli Tan Mike Isaac covers Silicon ...

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Since its launch in June 2025, the Nintendo Switch 2 has had some issues that players have observed. For starters, the price of Nintendo Switch 2 games are significantly higher than those of previous ...

Attackers have reduced the time to develop an exploit for a known vulnerability from 125 days to a mere half a day, thanks to the use of AI-assisted development, leaving vulnerability scanners ...

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other ...

A cybersecurity researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day dubbed "MiniPlasma" that lets attackers gain SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows ...

A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds.