Ethical hacker Rasmus Moorats in a blog post revealed an exploit in Sound Blaster Katana V2X speakers, dubbed "Pwnd Blaster," that would allow an attacker to remotely take over your PC.
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Brave has officially released Brave Origin, a minimal version of the regular Brave browser without a lot of the optional features such as Rewards, Leo AI, and Brave's VPN, for a one-time fee.
This week saw data breaches impacting GTA Online cheaters, a health wearable, a UN food assistance program for Palestinians, and an update to the neverending 23andMe saga.
An exploit described as “remarkably simple” allows anyone to add a new email address to any Instagram account using Meta’s AI chat bot, allowing full account takeover.
A complex travel booking breach, multiple government breaches around the world, some updates, and much more. This was a busy week for cybercriminals.
Google Family Link, Google's child safety feature, can be leveraged by an attacker to lock you out of your Google account and surveil and control your activity
Security researcher Harry Sintonen disclosed that the macOS desktop Signal app doesn't actually delete messages when they're deleted in the UI of the app.
After the town of Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to end its contract with the dystopian surveillance company Flock, a pro-Flock councilmember proposed a ban of phones, cameras, the internet, and nearly all technology.
Apple has published the source code for their corecrypto libraries on GitHub, along with the tools and formal verification libraries they used to evaluate their cryptography, so independent cryptography experts can verify it for themselves.
The US DOJ is demanding the data of all users, equating to over 100,000 people, of the EZ Lynk app over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, which the company denies.
Brian Krebs found a public GitHub repository with sensitive internal CISA credentials "including cloud keys, tokens, plaintext passwords, logs and other sensitive CISA assets."
Security researchers at Calif have found the first public memory corruption exploit on Apple's M5 chip, surviving Memory Integrity Enforcement protections.
After Discord announced their DAVE end-to-end encryption protocol for audio and video calls in 2024, they’ve finally finished migrating all calls to use it by default.
This week had some particularly noteworthy breaches including facial recognition systems, fingerprint scans, and Trump Mobile.
Fragnesia, the latest local privilege escalation vulnerability in the same family as Dirty Frag, emerges as an “unintended side effect of one of the patches addressing the original Dirty Frag vulnerabilities” according to the original creator of Dirty Frag, Hyunwood Kim.
This week featured some high-risk breaches including banks, cars, and water utilities.
An anonymous security researchers known as Nightmare-Eclipse has published two more Windows zero-day exploits, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, after already publishing 3 earlier this year.
Android has introduced some new protections against scammers and malware, some powered by agentic AI.
The Canvas breach quickly became the biggest hack of the week, but a couple others slipped under the radar.
Governor Spencer Cox has signed a law stating that websites are accountable for determining if a user is physically located in Utah, even from behind a VPN.
Canvas, software used by thousands of schools in the U.S., has been hacked and the private data of staff and students stolen.
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