Tagged: cybersecurity

Hackers can now take over your computer through Microsoft Word

A new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office could potentially allow hackers to take control of your computer. The vulnerability can be exploited even if you don’t actually open an infected file.
Although we’re still waiting for an official fix, Mi…

Researchers find new vulnerability with Apple Silicon chips

Researchers have released details of an Apple Silicon vulnerability dubbed “Augury.” However, it doesn’t seem to be a huge issue at the moment.
Jose Rodrigo Sanchez Vicarte from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Michael Flanders of the…

Destructive hacking group REvil could be back from the dead

There was a period in 2021 when the computing world was gripped by fear of a dizzyingly effective hacking group fittingly named REvil — until its website was seized by the FBI and its members arrested by Russia’s security services, that is. Yet like a …