The first ThreatsDay Bulletin of 2026 tracks GhostAd adware, macOS malware, proxy botnets, cloud exploits, and more emerging ...

Windows doesn’t offer a single switch to disable Exploit Protection completely. You can only disable individual mitigations system-wide or per app. We strongly recommend turning it off only for ...

Update Nov. 3, 10:42 am UTC: This article has been updated to include a section on Berachain’s emergency hard fork. Update Nov. 3, 9:47 am UTC: This article has been updated to add the latest figures, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

Pixnapping could be used to steal private data, including 2FA codes. Side-channel attack abuses Google Android APIs to steal data on display. Flaw is partially patched, although a more complete fix is ...

Unity has fixes ready to go, and Valve has released an updated version of Steam, too. Unity has fixes ready to go, and Valve has released an updated version of Steam, too. is a senior reporter ...

A newly discovered cross-platform malware dubbed ModStealer is slipping past antivirus systems and targeting crypto wallets on Windows, macOS, and Linux, according to researchers at Apple device ...

An attacker is exploiting a nearly 2-year-old vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ to compromise Linux servers and install malicious software on them. The attacker then discreetly fixes the same security ...

CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies about attackers targeting a high-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's OverlayFS subsystem that allows them to gain root privileges. Multiple ...

Attackers can exploit two newly discovered local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities to gain root privileges on systems running major Linux distributions. The first flaw (tracked as ...

Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in widely deployed Linux components that could allow unprivileged users to gain root access across popular distributions. The first is a local privilege ...

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 ...