'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' PC remote code exploits have been fixed, says Activision
For years, Modern Warfare 2 on Steam was a vector for all sorts of exploits and hacks. With this week’s update, it should be solved.
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Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain – to conduct command execution and reconnaissance, as…
IDScan.net Breach: Nexus Sold 153M IDs, Hegseth Hit [2026]
A dark-web marketplace called Nexus spent late August advertising something cybercrime forums rarely traffic in at this scale: not passwords, not credit card numbers, but forensic-grade scans of the physical identity documents that get you a hotel room, a rental car, or a legal cannabis purchase. By the time Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity finished tracing…
AMD RDNA 5 Leak Targets 3.5 GHz GPU Clocks [2026]
A new leak dropped on September 4, 2026 claims AMD is chasing GPU clock speeds as high as 3.5 GHz on its next-generation RDNA 5 architecture, a jump that would put the chipmaker’s graphics silicon in territory no consumer GPU has touched before. The figures, first reported by TechPowerUp and echoed by outlets including Club386,…
Pyramid Solutions NetStaX EtherNet/IP Stack
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in memory corruption, a device crash, or a potential remote attack vector without the originating device receiving a CIP error indicating that the request could not be processed. The following versions of Pyramid Solutions NetStaX EtherNet/IP Stack are affected: EtherNet/IP Adapter DLL Kit (EIPA) EtherNet/IP…
HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX
Nearly two dozen issues, tracked collectively as CVE-2026-73749 (CVSS score of 9.8), were addressed with the updates. The post HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Microsoft rolled out patches for cloud services, hackers compromised 5,000 Dropbox accounts, and Guardio is now valued at $1.1 billion. The post In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11,…
New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it…
Nintendo’s next two Direct events are both happening next week
Nintendo just announced two Direct events for next week, scheduled back to back. First up is the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September 8th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. It’s set to last around 30 minutes, streaming live on Nintendo’s YouTube channel or the Nintendo Today app. Images recently leaked showing a…