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The outage has stopped official bankruptcy notices nationwide since Oct. 9, with no cause or restoration date announced.

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A newly analyzed Android remote-access Trojan called YuanKong can watch and control a victim’s phone, capture passwords and payment PINs, and send stolen information to operators. Rather than relying on access to text messages or contact lists, it uses Android’s Accessibility features and screen controls to observe what people do inside apps, including banking and […]

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A proof-of-concept exploit that gains root access on OpenBSD by chaining two kernel flaws. The main bug dates back about 37 years to the original BSD source code. According to Security researchers at Calif, the flaw survived because a shared memory attachment counter named shm_nattch used a signed 16-bit value. OpenBSD fixed both issues before […]

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A campaign against government organizations and state-linked infrastructure used AI-assisted scripts to steal credentials, maintain access to Linux servers and seek sensitive data, according to new research. The attackers altered users’ shell startup files to intercept the sudo command, then copied entered passwords to a file while passing them to the real command. This let […]

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