Remembering what Windows 10 did right—and how it made modern Windows more annoying

Windows 10 wasn’t perfect; these examples of what it did right are cherry-picked. But part of the operating system’s ...
Amazon S3 on MSN

You should know these Windows settings that stop exploits

Windows includes built-in exploit protection that limits the damage hackers can do even when software vulnerabilities exist. The tool offers system-wide and app-specific settings, though enabling ...
CSO Online

Webrat turns GitHub PoCs into a malware trap

The known RAT aimed at gamers is now targeting security professionals searching GitHub for PoCs and exploit codes.

WebRAT malware spread via fake vulnerability exploits on GitHub

The WebRAT malware is now being distributed through GitHub repositories that claim to host proof-of-concept exploits for ...
WeLiveSecurity

Revisiting CVE-2025-50165: A critical flaw in Windows Imaging Component

ESET researchers provide a comprehensive analysis and assessment of a critical severity vulnerability with low likelihood of ...
The Escapist

ARC Raiders patch fixes a few key barricade exploits

ARC Raiders has been live for nearly a week, and we have ourselves a first patch to get some of the key issues sorted. The patch is relatively small, but there are a few key fixes to annoying bugs and ...
Hosted on MSN

How Windows Exploit Protection shields apps from attacks

Windows includes built-in exploit protection that limits the damage hackers can do even when software vulnerabilities exist. The tool offers system-wide and app-specific settings, though enabling ...
TechRepublic

AI Beats Hackers to a Zero-Day Cybersecurity Discovery, Twice

AI Beats Hackers to a Zero-Day Cybersecurity Discovery, Twice Your email has been sent Google’s AI agent Big Sleep identified the critical vulnerability CVE-2025-6965 before cybercriminals could ...
ExtremeTech

Hackers Exploit Windows 11 Accessibility Feature, Steal Banking Details

A new version of the Coyote banking trojan is targeting Windows users in Brazil, and it uses an insidiously novel technique. Security researchers at Akamai report that this malware takes advantage of ...
Ars Technica

Found in the wild: 2 Secure Boot exploits. Microsoft is patching only 1 of them.

Researchers have unearthed two publicly available exploits that completely evade protections offered by Secure Boot, the industry-wide mechanism for ensuring devices load only secure operating system ...
CSOonline

Ethical hackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities against popular OS, browsers, VMs and AI frameworks

During Pwn2Own hacking contest, participants were asked to compromise Microsoft Windows 11, Mozilla Firefox, VMware Workstation, NVIDIA Container Toolkit among other well-known systems. Security ...
Forbes

Windows 11 Hacked — Three New Pwn2Own Zero-Days Deployed

Windows 11 hacked three times on day one of PWN2OWN. Update, May 17, 2025: This story, originally published May 16, has been updated with news of another successful Windows 11 hack at the Pwn2Own ...