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CISA confirmed on Thursday that a high-severity privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel is now being exploited in ...

The group is abusing trusted remote management and file transfer tools to deliver a Linux encryptor on Windows machines.

The overall volume of kernel CVEs continues to climb: one security commentary noted the first 16 days of 2025 already saw 134 ...

The Qilin ransomware operation was spotted executing Linux encryptors in Windows using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to ...

On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

Recently, security researchers Socket found 10 packages on npm targeting software developers, specifically those who use the ...

Explore this week’s top cyber stories: stealthy virtual machine attacks, AI side-channel leaks, spyware on Samsung phones, ...

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The flaws let attackers abuse masked paths, console bind-mounts, and redirected writes to escape containers and gain host ...

There’s another ransomware story this week, but this one comes with a special twist. If you’ve followed this column for long, ...