A hot potato: A widespread scandal involving used Seagate hard drives fraudulently sold as new has continued to escalate, with new evidence suggesting that the drives originated from Chinese cryptocurrency mining farms. The drives, many of which had logged 15,000 to 50,000 hours of prior use, were reportedly altered to appear unused before re-entering the retail supply chain.
A high-severity vulnerability in 7-Zip has been discovered, allowing attackers to bypass Windows' Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) security feature and execute malicious code during file extraction. 7-Zip lacks an auto-update function, requiring users to manually update the software.