hacker
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It is what’s known as a privilege escalation exploit, and if it were chained together with other attacks it could be used by a hacker to seize control of the computer.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
“Whether or not Mythos is a hacker superweapon really is immaterial to the conversation,” says Dave Lewis, global advisory chief information-security officer at the password-manager developer 1Password.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
"The second thing is that even with existing weaknesses that we know about, but organisations might not have patched against, might not be well defended against, it's just a really good hacker," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
But so far in the war, that has been the only visible commercial attack claimed by an Iranian hacker group.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
I asked Violet, “Your father, he’s a college professor, but he was too busy to come see you after you like completely collapsed from a hacker attack? Too busy?”
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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