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A benign looking update Dragon Boss pushed out in March 2025 established persistence via scheduled tasks and arranged for future payloads to be excluded from Windows Defender.

A digitally signed adware tool has deployed payloads running with SYSTEM privileges that disabled antivirus protections on thousands of endpoints, some in the educational, utilities, government, and healthcare sectors. […]

Microsoft has awarded $2.3 million to security researchers after receiving nearly 700 submissions during this year’s Zero Day Quest hacking contest. […]

CISA warned U.S. government agencies to secure their systems against a Windows Task Host privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges. […]

The security defects allow attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Organizations Warned of Exploited Windows, Adobe Acrobat Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The US government has warned that Iran-linked hackers are manipulating PLCs and SCADA systems to cause disruption. The post Industry Reactions to Iran Hacking ICS in Critical Infrastructure: Feedback Friday appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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