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Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have unpacked a major cybersecurity find—a malicious UEFI-based rootkit used in the wild since 2016 to ensure computers remained infected even if an operating system is reinstalled or a…

Russia is quietly ramping up its Internet censorship machine

Enlarge (credit: Kremlin official photo) Since 2019, Vladimir Putin has supercharged his plan to separate Russia from the global Internet. The country's sovereign Internet law, which came into force that November, gives officials…

How big is the risk that someone will hack an EV charging network?

Enlarge / There are many good reasons why an EV charger should be networked, but it does come with vulnerabilities. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as…

Newly found Lightning Framework offers a plethora of Linux hacking capabilities

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The software framework has become essential to developing almost all complex software these days. The Django Web framework, for instance, bundles all the libraries, image files, and other components…

Global shortage of fiber-optic cable threatens digital growth

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A worldwide shortage of fiber-optic cable has driven up prices and lengthened lead times, endangering companies’ ambitious plans to roll out state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastructure. Europe, India, and China are…

Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) What's worse than a widely used Internet-connected enterprise app with a hardcoded password? Try said enterprise app after the hardcoded password has been leaked to the world. Atlassian on…

Zero-day used to infect Chrome users could pose threat to Edge and Safari users, too

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A secretive seller of cyberattack software recently exploited a previously unknown Chrome vulnerability and two other zero-days in campaigns that covertly infected journalists and other targets with sophisticated spyware,…

Netflix loses 970,000 subscribers, says ads and new fees are key to recovery

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Christopher Ames) Netflix yesterday reported a loss of 970,000 paid streaming subscribers in its Q2 earnings after having lost 200,000 customers in the first quarter of 2022. The company's…

Pro-Russia hack campaigns are running rampant in Ukraine

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Pro-Russian threat actors are continuing their unrelenting pursuit of Ukrainian targets, with an array of campaigns that include fake Android apps, hack attacks exploiting critical vulnerabilities, and email phishing…

Critical flaws in GPS tracker enable “disastrous” and “life-threatening” hacks

Enlarge A security firm and the US government are advising the public to immediately stop using a popular GPS tracking device or to at least minimize exposure to it, citing a host of…