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Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware Fast16 Confirmed as Nuclear Weapons Simulation Tampering Tool Dating Back to 2005

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Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware Fast16 Confirmed as Nuclear Weapons Simulation Tampering Tool Dating Back to 2005

Symantec and Carbon Black have published a definitive analysis confirming that Fast16, a Lua-based malware framework first surfaced by SentinelOne weeks ago, was purpose-built to sabotage nuclear weapons testing simulations. The findings establish Fast16 as the earliest known cyber sabotage tool targeting nuclear weapons research — predating the first

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Chaotic Eclipse Releases MiniPlasma — A Five-Year-Old Windows Zero-Day That Still Grants SYSTEM Privileges on Fully Patched Systems

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Chaotic Eclipse Releases MiniPlasma — A Five-Year-Old Windows Zero-Day That Still Grants SYSTEM Privileges on Fully Patched Systems

Chaotic Eclipse has released a third wave of Windows zero-day disclosures, publishing a proof-of-concept for a privilege escalation vulnerability codenamed MiniPlasma that grants SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems — including those running the latest May 2026 updates. The flaw resides in cldflt.sys, the Windows Cloud

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FamousSparrow Targets Azerbaijani Oil and Gas Firm in Three-Wave Campaign Using ProxyNotShell, Deed RAT, and Kernel-Level Rootkit

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FamousSparrow Targets Azerbaijani Oil and Gas Firm in Three-Wave Campaign Using ProxyNotShell, Deed RAT, and Kernel-Level Rootkit

Bitdefender Labs has documented a sustained espionage campaign by Chinese-aligned APT group FamousSparrow against an oil and gas company in Azerbaijan, carried out across three distinct waves between December 2025 and February 2026. The campaign marks a strategic pivot for the group toward South Caucasus energy infrastructure and demonstrates

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Chaotic Eclipse Returns With Two More Windows Zero-Days — BitLocker Bypass YellowKey and CTFMON Privilege Escalation GreenPlasma

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Chaotic Eclipse Returns With Two More Windows Zero-Days — BitLocker Bypass YellowKey and CTFMON Privilege Escalation GreenPlasma

The anonymous security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse — responsible for the BlueHammer, RedSun, and UnDefend Microsoft Defender zero-days that ZDW covered last month — has returned with two additional Windows zero-days, escalating an increasingly public confrontation with Microsoft over vulnerability disclosure handling. The first vulnerability, codenamed YellowKey, is a

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Critical MetInfo and Weaver E-cology Flaws Under Active Exploitation — Unauthenticated RCE Targeting Chinese Enterprise Infrastructure

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Critical MetInfo and Weaver E-cology Flaws Under Active Exploitation — Unauthenticated RCE Targeting Chinese Enterprise Infrastructure

Two critical vulnerabilities in widely deployed Chinese enterprise software are under active exploitation, with threat actors leveraging unauthenticated remote code execution flaws in MetInfo CMS and Weaver E-cology to compromise servers without requiring any credentials. CVE-2026-29014 (CVSS 9.8) affects MetInfo, a PHP and MySQL-based enterprise

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