Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"

2026-08-16T13:02:44Zc906ff287e2ca2bfb3af3d6c3f8378ac8a190ab2197a4c49640c98e0eeec144f
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Ars Technica security feed covering major vulnerability disclosures, software supply-chain compromises, ransomware, credential theft, cyberespionage, critical-infrastructure attacks, router exploitation, and post-quantum security developments. Several items describe potentially severe active threats, including backdoored Daemon Tools software, the CopyFail Linux vulnerability, a credential-stealing open-source package, emergency ASP.NET patches, and state-linked attacks.

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