A security researcher has released RoguePlanet, a Windows zero-day exploit leading to local privilege escalation to SYSTEM.

Windows has come a long way from its wild west days, with multiple protections that guard against dangerous software. But attackers constantly try to evade those defenses—and recently succeeded with a ...

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ESET researchers discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in Mozilla products, exploited in the wild by Russia-aligned group RomCom. This is at least the second time that RomCom has been caught ...

Exploit code has been released for an unpatched Windows privilege escalation flaw reported privately to Microsoft, allowing attackers to gain SYSTEM or elevated administrator permissions. Dubbed ...

The leak online of exploit code for an apparent Windows zero-day flaw dubbed "BlueHammer" could be the sign of a larger issue that security researchers face when collaborating with Microsoft on ...