PromptSpy Android malware abuses Google Gemini to analyze screens, automate persistence, block removal, and enable VNC-based remote device control.

Moving from Windows to Linux doesn't require much of a learning curve and brings some real benefits, but you need to accept a few compromises. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 ...

Linux has long been known as the operating system of developers and power users, but today it’s far more accessible than ever before. Thanks to user-friendly distributions that prioritize simplicity, ...

The Linux desktop has continued its slow growth. Linux has been making gains in no small part because of Microsoft Windows' blunders. Users and governments have been losing trust in Windows and ...

Windows doesn’t offer a single switch to disable Exploit Protection completely. You can only disable individual mitigations system-wide or per app. We strongly recommend turning it off only for ...

Balancer, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with over $750 million in value locked, appears to have been hit by its biggest exploit yet, with on-chain data showing upward of $110 million in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

A newly discovered cross-platform malware dubbed ModStealer is slipping past antivirus systems and targeting crypto wallets on Windows, macOS, and Linux, according to researchers at Apple device ...

Apple patched a zero-click vulnerability that allowed sophisticated attackers to compromise devices and could have led to cryptocurrency theft; it urged immediate updates. Apple is urging users to ...

An attacker is exploiting a nearly 2-year-old vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ to compromise Linux servers and install malicious software on them. The attacker then discreetly fixes the same security ...

I've worked from home for over a decade. Without Linux as my primary operating system, I'm not sure how I would be able to do the things I do with the level of simplicity and reliability that I've ...

Linux places no special demands on hardware, so there are generally no limitations when choosing a Linux system. Even more feature-rich desktop distributions like Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop, ...