NCSC launches SilentGlass, a plug-in device to secure HDMI and DisplayPort links
2026-04-28T08:51:46Z•62228ec1af64475f9cb9ebbe9fbba6d47b6f6443069df8ef4d45c16a66d0a456
CVE-2026-40050CVE-2026-6770China-linked-APTCrowdStrikeDisplayPortFast16GopherWhisperHDMIItronMedtronicNCSCShinyHuntersTorbrowser-fingerprintingcritical-vulnerabilitydata-breachespionagephysical-securityspear-phishingvulnerability
What happened
This collection of SecurityAffairs reports covers multiple high-impact incidents and research: CrowdStrike fixed a critical unauthenticated path-traversal vulnerability in LogScale (CVE-2026-40050) that could expose arbitrary files; a Firefox/Tor fingerprinting flaw (CVE-2026-6770) allowed cross-site tracking even in private/Tor sessions; the UK NCSC commercialized SilentGlass to protect HDMI/DisplayPort links from hardware attacks; Medtronic confirmed a breach after ShinyHunters claimed >9M records stolen; NASA staff were targeted by a China-linked spear-phishing campaign posing as a U.S.研究er
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