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Six bugs in U-Boot bootloader open the door to hidden firmware attacks

Researchers found flaws in the open-source code that starts up millions of embedded devices, from routers to industrial kit. Fixes are out.

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Six New Bugs in U-Boot Could Let Attackers Hijack Devices at Startup

Binarly researchers found flaws in the tiny program that boots routers, cameras and server chips. Two of them could let intruders run their own code before the device even wakes up.

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Progress tells ShareFile customers to pull the plug amid 'credible' threat

The maker of a widely used file-sharing tool is emailing on-premises customers to shut down their servers now, while it investigates what it calls a credible external threat.

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Nine Security Flaws Found in ATM Encryption Software, and Nobody Agrees How Bad It Is

A researcher found serious bugs in software that locks ATM hard drives. The world's biggest ATM maker says they don't matter. The researcher disagrees. The truth is somewhere uncomfortable.

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Laser Pulse Cracks Tangem Crypto Card Password in Seconds

Ledger's Donjon team showed a targeted laser can wipe the PIN on a Tangem wallet card, handing full control to whoever holds it.

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Free Android VPNs Are Leaking Your Traffic, Study of 281 Apps Finds

Researchers tested the most popular free VPN apps on Google Play. A significant share fail at the one job they promise: keeping your internet activity private.

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Unpatched Flaw in Alibaba's XQUIC Lets Anyone Crash HTTP/3 Servers With 260 Bytes

FoxIO researcher Sébastien Féry disclosed the bug on 8 July. There's no fix, no login required, and no malformed packets involved.

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'Ill Bloom' Wallet Flaw Drains $3.1 Million as Weak Recovery Phrases Give Thieves the Keys

Security firm Coinspect says attackers are already sweeping wallets whose recovery words were generated with predictable randomness.

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Security Debt Is Growing Faster Than Companies Can Fix It. Here Is What That Means.

Eight in ten organisations carry a backlog of unresolved security flaws older than a year. A practical framework explains how to turn that reality into a board-level conversation.

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Google Patches 27 Chrome Flaws, Two Rated Critical

Chrome 150 arrives with fixes for a string of memory-related bugs, most of them found by Google's own engineers rather than outside researchers.

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Microsoft patches 'RoguePlanet' Defender flaw after researcher publishes exploit in disclosure spat

The zero-day let attackers hand themselves the keys to a fully patched Windows machine. It was revealed by a researcher publicly feuding with Microsoft.

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A Secret Backdoor in Tenda Home Routers Lets Strangers Take Control, and There Is No Fix

A hidden login trick buried in Tenda networking gear gives anyone who knows the magic password full administrative control. The maker has not responded, and no patch exists.

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Ubiquiti Rushes Fixes for a 10-out-of-10 Flaw Across UniFi Gear

The networking vendor patched serious holes in UniFi Connect, Talk, Access, Protect and the underlying UniFi OS. One bug scores a perfect 10 on the severity scale.

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U.S. Government Gives Agencies Two Weeks to Patch Four Actively Exploited Flaws

Critical security holes in Adobe ColdFusion, Langflow, and Joomla extensions are already being used by attackers. Federal agencies have until July 10 to fix them.

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US cyber agency gives federal staff four days to patch Langflow AI tool being actively hacked

CISA added an authorisation bypass in the popular AI-agent builder Langflow to its must-patch list after Sysdig spotted attackers stealing cloud keys and hijacking servers.

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