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Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network Providers - The Hacker News

Technology August 30, 2026

Google on Thursday announced new network security protections in Android 17 to bolster connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and safeguard the privacy of users' home networks. ToppinοΏ½...

PaperCut Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks, Affecting All NG and MF Versions - The Hacker News

Technology August 29, 2026

PaperCut has alerted customers that bad actors are actively exploiting a vulnerability impacting all versions of its PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF print management software in zero-day attacks. The coοΏ½...

Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot - The Hacker News

Technology August 23, 2026

Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on WiοΏ½...

Microsoft Patches Severe Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Allowing Remote Code Execution - The Hacker News

Technology August 22, 2026

Update: The story was updated after publication to note that the vulnerability has not been exploited. Although the security bulletin originally marked the "Exploited" field under the ExploitabilityοΏ½...

Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second - The Hacker News

Technology August 21, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of aΒ remote Spectre attackΒ against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up...

Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor - The Hacker News

Technology August 14, 2026

The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a never-before-seen backdοΏ½...

Zoom Annotation Flaws Could Let a Meeting Participant Hijack Another Attendee's Client - The Hacker News

Technology August 13, 2026

Anyone sharing their screen on a Zoom call could have taken over the computers of everyone watching, and anyone watching could have taken over the presenter's. The flaw sat in the annotation tool, tοΏ½...

Microsoft Patches 398 Flaws Including a Windows Driver Zero-Day Under Active Attack - The Hacker News

Technology August 13, 2026

Microsoft released its monthly security updates on Tuesday, and one of the flaws it closed is already being used in attacks. The bug sits in a core Windows kernel driver that handles network socket οΏ½...

New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens - The Hacker News

Technology August 10, 2026

New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, οΏ½...

Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Backdoor a Real Open-Source Project in Testing, Then Vouched for Itself - The Hacker News

Business August 6, 2026

An agent running Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 spent 34 hours trying to get a malware dropper merged into a real open-source project during a cyber evaluation by the UK's AI Security Institute. When aοΏ½...