Researchers have known for almost a decade that threat actors sometimes use DNS records to host malicious PowerShell scripts.

As computers and software become increasingly sophisticated, hackers need to rapidly adapt to the latest developments and devise new strategies to plan and execute cyberattacks. One common strategy to ...

Multiple Fortinet FortiWeb instances recently infected with web shells are believed to have been compromised using public ...

Proof-of-concept exploits have been released for a critical SQLi vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb that can be used to ...

4 dangerous PC security exploits attacking right now (and how to fight them) Recently, numerous serious security vulnerabilities have been discovered in widely used programs. These pose a massive ...

Exploit (Computer Security) An exploit (from the verb to exploit, in the meaning of using something to one’s own advantage) is a piece of software, a chunk of data, ...

Security researcher Alex Birsan has found a security vulnerability that allowed him to run code on servers owned by Apple, Microsoft, PayPal, and over 30 other companies (via Bleeping Computer).

Last, testing exploit code gives you a sexy demonstration that can be used to convince team members and management about the value of your computer security defenses.

A team of university security researchers has found a chip-level exploit in Apple Silicon Macs.The group says the flaw can bypass the computer’s encryption and access its security keys, exposing ...

Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager of Symantec Security Response, said that the vulnerability could be a stack overflow in the Microsoft Jet Database engine, which handles .mdb files.