Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users

The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility's update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. "The attack involved an infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic...

Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-001479)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-001479 advisory. u'Specifically timed and handcrafted traffic can cause internal errors in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility ...

CVE-2020-1627

A vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on vMX and MX150 devices may allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service DoS by sending specific packets requiring special processing in microcode that the flow cache can't handle, causing the riot forwarding daemon to crash. By continuously sending...

CVE-2019-12652

A vulnerability in the ingress packet processing function of Cisco IOS Software for Cisco Catalyst 4000 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper resource allocation when...

Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Hyper-V is a technology based on the Virtual Machine Monitor that provides a scalable, reliable and highly available virtualization platform. A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, which can be exploited by an attacker to bypas...

How Did One Of The World's Poorer Countries Become its Top Source of Online Attacks?

What country serves up the biggest share of online attacks? The U.S., you say? It’s the world’s largest and most advanced economy. China maybe? Its growing fast, with billions of citizens and hundreds of millions of Internet users. How about Russia? Try Myanmar. The southeast Asian country that’s...