Trust Wallet users lost more than $7 million shortly after it released an updated version of its extension for the Chrome web browser. The stolen funds will be reimbursed, said Changpeng Zhao, a ...

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-9491, allowed cybercriminals to hide malicious commands from users inspecting files through Windows' standard interface. We waited long enough. Image: Unsplash Microsoft ...

Microsoft has silently "mitigated" a high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability exploited by multiple state-backed and cybercrime hacking groups in zero-day attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-9491, this ...

Year after year, LNK files are exploited in malware attacks, mainly because a core vulnerability hides malicious content from users. Microsoft has not yet fixed the flaw, so we must be cautious when ...

The big picture: Today's world runs on digital documents, but companies and users face a maze of incompatible proprietary file formats. LibreOffice developers contend that only strictly open standards ...

Google Chrome vs. Mozilla Firefox: I Pit the Most Popular Browser Against the Best Open-Source Alternative Chrome dominates the browser market with extenstive site compatibility and a wealth of ...

Chinese hackers have been spotted targeting European diplomats using a longstanding Windows shortcut vulnerability that’s been popular with threat groups as far back as 2017. According to security ...

You might assume that high-risk security vulnerabilities that have been reported by expert security researchers would be fixed as quickly as possible by the affected companies, especially if those ...

Two Windows vulnerabilities—one a zero-day that has been known to attackers since 2017 and the other a critical flaw that Microsoft initially tried and failed to patch recently—are under active ...

There are plenty of open-source web browsers available. No matter what platform you use, there's an open-source app. Each of these web browsers is free to install and use. How much time do you spend ...

Google is adding multiple new AI features to Chrome, the most popular browser in the world. The most visible change is a new button in Chrome that launches the Gemini chatbot, but there are also new ...

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