Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that’s part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named “imgdecode,” was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026,…
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Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unauthorized access…
In the other incident, a model instructed to retrieve figures from a public research dashboard bypassed the organization’s security controls and used the unauthorized access to steal credentials. It then made configuration changes on the…
These days, the best thing you can get for your office is a small computer. Apple’s M6 Mac mini is on sale for $949 right now, which is quite a bit under its $1,099 price…
Swati KhandelwalOct 16, 2026Vulnerability / OpenBSD A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD’s KARL kernel-address randomization…
Geekbench 7 Results are expressed as Geekbench scores. Higher scores/longer bars are faster. Surface Laptop Ultra’s Windows power slider set to “Best performance” Geekbench 7 is an overall, general-purpose performance benchmark, and in Single-core CPU…
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor’s own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of…
Ravie LakshmananOct 16, 2026Phishing / Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle…