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An ongoing security investigation by Socket’s John Tuckner has discovered a search-hijacking campaign that involves 319 Chrome extensions with a combined 13.4 million downloads. The malicious extensions redirect search queries through tracking servers to generate advertising revenue from Bing and Yahoo

Hackers have reportedly broken into 25 servers across four countries, including systems connected to a U.S. government-affiliated organization. Security researchers also discovered evidence that AI tools may have played a role in the attack.

Massive Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have become the norm and October may actually have broken records, fixing over 1,400 vulnerabilities in Windows. This comes just a month after the company released patches for more than 1,000 flaws, and then had to send out an emergency patch to fix what those updates broke.

Hundreds of supermarkets in France were hit by a cyberattack this week that sent refrigerator temperatures soaring to 122°F, destroying food and reportedly sparking fires. Now, an AI researcher is warning that this could be a preview of something much worse.

In the era of privacy becoming almost nonexistent, we need to take every measure we can to reclaim some sense of security. Naturally, it’s not as convenient as it should be to protect yourself — we have traded convenience for privacy after all. But most operating systems have features, although buried beneath submenus, to make…

There was a time not that long ago when you had to choose between protection or performance on your Windows PC. If you enabled your security software, yes, you would be protected from malware and other viruses, but your computer’s performance would take a massive hit. On the other hand, if you left your security…