Zero-day exploits, AI-driven Android malware, firmware backdoors, password manager trust gaps, rising DDoS define this week’s critical cyber threats.

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Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are known for their ability to understand and respond to human instructions/prompts. As such, LLMs can be used to produce natural language interfaces for ...

A fully featured command line tool for post-exploitation operations on Microsoft SQL Server instances. Provides RCE (Remote Code Execution), privilege escalation, persistence, evasion, and cleanup ...

Three security vulnerabilities in the official Git server for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), mcp-server-git, have been identified by cybersecurity researchers. The flaws can be exploited ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a security flaw that leverages indirect prompt injection targeting Google Gemini as a way to bypass authorization guardrails and use Google Calendar ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a zero-shot Text-to-SQL method based on large language model (LLM) prompt learning, which we call the AMPC-SQL. Specifically, we utilize large models to play two roles: ...

Netstat helps you view active connections, open ports, and running network services. This guide explains how to run Netstat, read its output, and use the most helpful switches. You can see every TCP ...

Sometimes you just want Windows to shut down. But instead of shutting down quickly, the system seems to ponder, blocked by running processes, background services, or open apps. However, for decades ...

A port is a logical access point used by networking protocols to distinguish different services on the same device. For example, HTTP uses port 80, HTTPS uses 443, and RDP uses 3389. Windows Firewall ...