Attackers have not waited for Exploit Wednesday; the Microsoft Windows zero-day attacks have already started. Here’s what you need to know and do.

Windows Update may occasionally backfire with faulty patches, but for the most part, it’s meant to keep us safe from the latest threats. Microsoft regularly pushes new patches that address potential ...

A new exploit for IE9 bypasses all security measures in even the latest fully patched version of Windows 7, according to a French security company Vupen. The exploit uses an unpatched zero-day ...

New research being presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today shows that a vulnerability in Windows Update could be exploited to downgrade Windows to older versions, exposing a ...

Hackers will quickly jump on one of the 15 vulnerabilities Microsoft patched Tuesday to build attack code that infects Internet Explorer users, security researchers agreed today. The bug, which ...

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State-sponsored APTs from North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China are targeting victims using a Windows shortcut file exploit, according to new research from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). In ...

This one's important, so let's get right to it: a new security flaw in all versions of Windows opens the door for a wormable remote code execution vulnerability. That means it can be exploited by an ...

The disclosure of a new exploit technique that bypasses an important Windows security feature may result in more successful attacks against Microsoft's newer operating systems, researchers said today.

Patch Tuesday has passed, and we are now left with what is colloquially known in cybersecurity circles as Exploit Wednesday. This month, that could be more problematic for Windows users than usual as ...

The security advisory gave out few details of the vulnerability, only saying that it was a flaw in the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) component, and could result in a denial-of-service attack that would ...

North Korean hackers have exploited a recently patched Google Chrome zero-day (CVE-2024-7971) to deploy the FudModule rootkit after gaining SYSTEM privileges using a Windows Kernel exploit. "We assess ...