Analytics Insight

How Hackers Operate: The Tools Behind Real-World Cybersecurity Testing

Overview:Ethical hackers follow the seven-phase Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), moving from intelligence ...
AZFamily

10 arrested in child exploitation operation in Apache Junction

APACHE JUNCTION, AZ (AZFamily) — Ten people were arrested in a two-day, multi-agency child exploitation operation in Apache Junction. On June 5 and June 6, federal, state and local authorities ...
The Verge

Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits

The company is feuding with a security researcher publicly posting vulnerabilities. The company is feuding with a security researcher publicly posting vulnerabilities. is the Verge’s weekend editor.
WREG

Former Olive Branch preacher, teacher sentenced for child exploitation

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former teacher and preacher from Olive Branch, Mississippi, was sentenced this week after a jury trial on a charge of child exploitation. Kyle Michael Hilleary, 32, was sentenced to ...
Dark Reading

AI-Assisted Exploit Development Outpaces Scanner Detection

Attackers have reduced the time to develop an exploit for a known vulnerability from 125 days to a mere half a day, thanks to the use of AI-assisted development, leaving vulnerability scanners ...
Ars Technica

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other ...
KWWL

Dubuque teacher charged with 6 counts of child exploitation

DUBUQUE, Iowa — A Hempstead High School teacher faces federal charges of child exploitation. Andrew Robert Roos, 35, was charged with six counts in an indictment unsealed in United States District ...
Computer Weekly

Vulnerability exploitation now primary origin of data breaches

Approximately 31% – close to a third – of all data breaches now begin with the exploitation of some form of software vulnerability by a malicious actor, surpassing credential theft as the number one ...
Forbes

Microsoft Confirms Active 0-Day Exploit—Check Emergency Mitigation

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Microsoft confirms Exchange zero-day, CISA warns it's under active exploitation. Updated May ...
CoinTelegraph

THORChain pauses trading after suspected $10M exploit

THORChain paused trading after ZachXBT flagged a suspected $10 million exploit spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base. Decentralized liquidity protocol THORChain halted trading after ...
TechSpot

A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

The Epitome of WTF: A researcher known as "Nightmare-Eclipse" recently released YellowKey, a security vulnerability that allegedly enables a full bypass of BitLocker's full-volume encryption. The ...