WordPress malware campaign hides payloads in Steam profiles

Nearly 2,000 WordPress websites were infected with malware that relies on Steam Community profile comments to hide command-and-control (C2) data.
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Cockroach Janta Party: India's fastest Instagram account! From courtroom slur to 10 Mn followers; decoding numbers behind the viral GenZ movement

On May 15, 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant made a remark inside a Supreme Court chamber that he probably didn't expect to outlive the hearing. He compared unemployed young people entering ...
Digital Trends

Claude just got a scam detector, and it could save you from a costly mistake

Thanks to AI’s content generation capabilities, scams are getting harder to detect. According to Malwarebytes’ research, 66% of people say it’s hard to tell a scam from the real thing. AI-generated ...
Wired

Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet

Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation software. It was created in 2005—and likely deployed by the US or an ally. Vitaly ...
AOL

House Number Numerology Explained: Here’s How to Decode It

You may already be familiar with numerology in the context of birth dates or names—using numbers to reveal insights into personality traits and life paths—but did you know that your home also carries ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Formbook Malware Campaign Uses Multiple Obfuscation Techniques to Avoid Detection

Two phishing campaigns, each using a different stealthy infection technique, are targeting organizations in attacks which aim to deliver data stealing malware to devices running on Microsoft Windows.
CNET

Malware Is Scary. Here's CNET's Guide to Cleaning an Infected Laptop

Every data-stealing virus requires a unique approach, but these are the essential first steps for reclaiming an infected device. Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in ...
TechSpot

Malware campaign lures users with fake Windows Update website

Editor's take: Microsoft has increasingly turned Windows Update into a point of frustration for some users, all while cybercriminals continue to exploit weaknesses in the Windows platform to deploy ...
HotHardware

Official CPU-Z And HWMonitor Installers Infected With Malware After Site Breach

If you downloaded common system tools CPU-Z or HWMonitor in the last 24 hours, stop reading this and go deal with that system first, because there's a real chance it was compromised. A breach of the ...
Scientific American

Open-source software has an invisible vulnerability. Hackers have found it

The danger in the code came from characters that are invisible to the human eye. In early March researchers at several security firms examined what looked like empty space and found hidden Unicode ...
GameSpot

After Infecting PCs With Malware, Gacha Game Gives Out Free Loot Boxes To Apologize

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The creators of free-to-play gacha RPG Duet Night Abyss have ...