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JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies

September 7, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. “The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques including RC4-protected…

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

September 6, 2026 Blogmaster

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about calls for RFK Jr.’s resignation coming entirely from Democrats: And that’s why trying to…

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Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests

September 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Eat more fatty fish. That dietary advice has changed the way the world consumes salmon, pushing consumer demand ever upward and production to higher and higher levels. Most of that…

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German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket

September 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Isar Aerospace, founded in 2018 by three students at a German university, successfully launched a privately-developed rocket into low-Earth orbit Saturday from a Norwegian spaceport inside the Arctic Circle. The…

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Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner

September 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine after the stealer deletes itself. One of…

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Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication

September 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrative control without authentication, according to CERT Polska’s attack…

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Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores

September 5, 2026 Blogmaster

Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store’s server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce…

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This Week In Techdirt History: August 30th – September 5th

September 5, 2026 Blogmaster

This Week in 2016 UK Gov’t Report: Facebook, Twitter, And Google Are Pretty Much Unrepentant Terrorist Supporters New Zealand Court Grants Kim Dotcom’s Request To Have Extradition Hearing Livestreamed On…

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Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code

September 5, 2026 Blogmaster

Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability,…

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Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials

September 5, 2026 Blogmaster

JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity…

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