Other users can watch your browsing and time your keystrokes through OS file notifications
Researchers at Graz University of Technology have used the file-notification systems in Windows, Linux, and macOS to spy on activity in other accounts. On Windows, a standard …
The TASK#STOMP Windows backdoor takes Wi-Fi passwords, screenshots, and business files
Researchers have taken apart TASK#STOMP, a Windows backdoor that searches a victim’s drives for business documents, uploads them to attacker servers, and then stays put …
DeepZero: Open-source hunting for vulnerable Windows drivers
DeepZero is an open-source engine that automates the search for exploitable Windows kernel drivers. You point it at a folder of binaries and it parses them, pulls them apart, …
September 2026 Patch Tuesday: Record patch count, 2 zero-days, and a SigRed successor
September 2026 Patch Tuesday is here, with Microsoft delivering another record-breaking number of patches, including those for two vulnerabilities that have been exploited as …
Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs
Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without …
September 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: All we need is more time
UPDATE: September 2026 Patch Tuesday is now live The Patch Apocalypse is continuing unabated. We are seeing record numbers of patches being released and reported CVEs continue …
Windows memory integrity switches on automatically for eligible devices in October 2026
Beginning in October 2026, Windows quality updates start enabling memory integrity protection on eligible devices with little or no additional configuration. On machines where …
Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver
Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Durham University have found a way to knock down some of the toughest protections in Windows 11 without physically opening or …
August 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: How do we deal with the patch apocalypse?
July 2026 Patch Tuesday was record-setting in so many ways. The sheer volume of security patches for almost every product in the Microsoft portfolio was the highest ever and, …
Bank of America impersonators weaponize ScreenConnect, then make it hard to remove
A phishing campaign impersonating Bank of America (BoA) is underway, trying to trick Windows users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software and then making it …
PoC exploit released for critical AD CS domain-takeover flaw (CVE-2026-54121)
Security researchers who discovered and reported CVE-2026-54121 (aka “Certighost”), a critical privilege elevation vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate …
Microsoft tightens Windows enterprise activation security
Microsoft is making Trusted Platform Module (TPM)-backed attestation a requirement for Windows Key Management Service (KMS), the on-premises service used for Windows volume …
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