WannaCry showed how unpatched flaws and leaked cyber tools can cripple global systems, reshaping cybersecurity defenses worldwide. In memory of the day the digital world was shaken, but learned to fight back. The WannaCry ransomware attack represents one of the most significant events in recent cybersecurity history, not only for its global scale but also…
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CISOs step into the AI spotlight
Serving in the military requires a precise, tactical mindset, and that’s exactly what Barry Hensley espoused during his 24 years in the US Army, where he rose to the rank of colonel. The military “is where you earn your stripes, showing your soldiers your willingness to jump into a foxhole and pick up a weapon,”…
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Why patching SLAs should be the floor, not the strategy
I’ve been a CISO for two separate companies, know several CISOs personally, and interact with many others through various cybersecurity forums. We all have one thing in common. We can tell you our patching SLA numbers off the top of our heads. Ninety-five percent of criticals closed in 14 days. Eighty-something on highs. The board…
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OpenAI’s Daybreak uses Codex Security to identify risky attack paths
OpenAI Daybreak is the company’s cybersecurity initiative focused on building AI-assisted software defense into the development process from the start. It combines OpenAI models, Codex Security, and cyber-focused GPT-5.5 variants to help organizations identify, validate, and prioritize software vulnerabilities. How Daybreak identifies exploitable vulnerabilities Daybreak builds editable threat models from a company’s code repository, analyzes…
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Linux kernel maintainers suggest a ‘kill switch’ to protect systems until a zero-day vulnerability is patched
Linux server admins may get the ability to turn off a vulnerable function in the OS kernel until a patch for a zero-day vulnerability is ready, if a proposal from a kernel developer and maintainer is accepted by the open source community. The idea of a kill switch for privileged operators has been suggested by…
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Sophos Endpoint in action: Blocking a novel supply chain attack
How the unique anti-exploitation capabilities included with Sophos Endpoint blocked a supply chain attack. Categories: Products & Services Tags: Endpoint, Sophos Endpoint, Exploits
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Pressure mounts on Canvas as data leak extortion deadline looms
Pressure is mounting on Instructure, the company behind Canvas, as cybercriminals threaten to leak a trove of sensitive data they claim was stolen during a prolonged cyberattack on the widely used education tech platform. Widespread outages left schools, students and teachers temporarily unable to access critical data late last week after the company took Canvas…
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Apple Patches Everything, (Mon, May 11th)
Apple today released its typical feature update across it’s operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, vision OS). With this update, Apple patched 84 different vulnerabilities. Updates are available for the “26” series of operating systems, as well as for the previous “18” version of iOS/iPadOS, and two versions back for macOS (version 14 and…
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Google Says Hackers Used AI to Develop a Zero-Day Exploit
Google researchers say hackers used AI to develop zero-day exploits, Android backdoors, and automated supply chain attacks targeting GitHub and PyPI.
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IMF warns of the potential for AI attacks on global financial systems
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that AI could become a growing threat to global financial stability by making cyberattacks faster and more sophisticated. In a new analysis, the organization describes how new AI tools can help attackers identify and exploit security vulnerabilities in banks, payment systems, and cloud services in record time. According…
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CVE-2026-43500 and CVE-2026-43284: Dirty Frag Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw Raises Post-Compromise Risk
Linux local privilege escalation bugs remain especially dangerous when they turn a limited foothold into full root access. The CVE-2026-43500 vulnerability is the RxRPC half of the Dirty Frag exploit chain, which Microsoft says is already linked to limited in-the-wild post-compromise abuse, while Qualys describes it as a page-cache write issue that can let an…
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cPanel CVE-2026-41940 Under Active Exploitation to Deploy Filemanager Backdoor
A threat actor named Mr_Rot13 has been attributed to the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical cPanel flaw to deploy a backdoor codenamed Filemanager on compromised environments. The attack exploits CVE-2026-41940, a vulnerability impacting cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) that could result in an authentication bypass and allow remote attackers to gain elevated control of…
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News Alert: Lyrie.ai joins Anthropic verification program, unveils protocol for securing AI agents
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, May 11, 2026, CyberNewswire—Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC today announced acceptance into Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program and unveiled the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), an open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope and action verification slated for IETF submission. OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced two milestones that together…
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How Can SMBs Keep Up With AI Governance?
As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates across organizations, security leaders are struggling to keep governance frameworks aligned with how quickly employees are integrating AI into daily workflows. According to Matt Warner, CEO and co-founder of Blumira, small and mid-sized business (SMB) organizations are facing growing pressure to enable AI innovation while simultaneously maintaining governance, compliance,…
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Hackers Used AI to Develop First Known Zero-Day 2FA Bypass for Mass Exploitation
Google on Monday disclosed that it identified an unknown threat actor using a zero-day exploit that it said was likely developed with an artificial intelligence (AI) system, marking the first time the technology has been put to use in the wild in a malicious context for vulnerability discovery and exploit generation. The activity is said…
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Apple needs to fix admin authentication in ABM
Apple’s platforms are secure by design, but when it comes to authentication, the company seems to be protecting employees more than it protects IT admins. It’s an attack vector just waiting to be exploited — if it hasn’t been already. As noted first by Six Colors, the problem is that administrator and People Manager accounts on Apple Business…
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‘Dirty Frag’ Exploit Poised to Blow Up on Enterprise Linux Distros
The privilege escalation vulnerability, which is similar to other Linux flaws like Copy Fail and Dirty Pipe, may already be under limited exploitation.
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Google warns artificial intelligence is accelerating cyberattacks and zero-day exploits
Google says hackers now use AI to create exploits, automate attacks, evade defenses, and target AI supply chains at scale. Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the cyber threat landscape, and a new report from the Google Cloud Threat Intelligence team highlights how attackers already use AI to improve vulnerability exploitation and gain initial access to…
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Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program
Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC also unveils the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), the first open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, and action verification — slated for IETF submission. OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced two milestones that together position the company as foundational infrastructure for the agentic AI era: acceptance into…
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Google: Hackers used AI to develop zero-day exploit for web admin tool
Researchers at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) say that a zero-day exploit targeting a popular open-source web administration tool was likely generated using AI. […]
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Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI
Google’s threat intelligence researchers have linked a zero-day exploit to AI-assisted development by a criminal group. The exploit targeted a popular open-source web-based system administration tool. It allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication once they had valid user credentials. The flaw stemmed from a semantic logic error, a case where a developer hardcoded a trust…
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Hackers Use AI for Exploit Development, Attack Automation
Cyber adversaries have long used AI, but now attackers are using large language models to develop exploits and orchestrate complex attacks.
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Google spotted an AI-developed zero-day before attackers could use it
Google researchers found a zero-day exploit developed by artificial intelligence and alerted the susceptible vendor to the imminent threat before a well-known cybercrime group initiated a mass-exploitation campaign, the company said in a report released Monday. The averted disaster probably isn’t the first time attackers used AI to build a zero-day, but it is the…
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Google discovers weaponized zero-day exploits created with AI
The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) today released evidence of a zero-day exploit developed by a cybercriminal group with the help of AI. It marks the first time the security research group has identified what it believes to be an AI-crafted zero-day exploit in the wild. While evidence of threat actors using AI models for…
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9-Year-Old Dirty Frag Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Linux Systems
The Dirty Frag vulnerability affects Linux systems and allows root access escalation, while public PoC exploit code increases attack risks.
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Lyrie.ai Deploys Real-Time Zero-Day Tracking Across Global Enterprise Infrastructure
OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced several milestones that together position the company as foundational security infrastructure for the agentic AI era: the deployment of a real-time zero-day tracking and disclosure system designed to notify affected organizations of active exploit activity; acceptance into Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program (CVP); and the public release…
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New ‘Dirty Frag’ exploit targets Linux kernel for root access
A newly disclosed Linux privilege escalation issue dubbed “Dirty Frag” is giving attackers a cleaner path to post-compromise escalation to root privileges. According to Microsoft, a couple of vulnerabilities constituting the issue, affecting Linux kernel networking and memory-fragment handling components, are already seeing active exploitation in the wild. The exploitation attempts look indistinguishable from the…
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Your Purple Team Isn’t Purple — It’s Just Red and Blue in the Same Room
Defending a network at 2 am looks a lot like this: an analyst copy-pasting a hash from a PDF into a SIEM query. A red team script is being rewritten by hand so the blue team can use it. A patch waiting on a change-approval window that’s longer than the exploitation window itself. Nobody in…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in BerriAI LiteLLM, tracked as CVE-2026-42208 (CVSS score of 9.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. At the end of April, attackers rapidly exploited the critical…
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1,800+ MCP servers exposed without authentication: How zero trust can secure the AI agent revolution
We find ourselves teetering upon a precipice of our own unwitting construction, and the vertiginous depth of our collective negligence ought to give every security practitioner profound pause. In our headlong rush to deploy AI agents across enterprise environments, we have erected an infrastructure so thoroughly unfortified that it beggars belief. The Model Context Protocol,…
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Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program
Dubai, UAE, May 7th, 2026, CyberNewsWire This article was provided by CyberNewswire and does not represent the editorial content of eSecurityPlanet. Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC has unveiled the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), the first open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, and action verification — slated for IETF submission. OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company…
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AI Agents Are Creating a New Cybersecurity Blind Spot
The cybersecurity industry has spent years focusing on visibility. Dashboards expanded. Detection tooling improved. Telemetry volumes exploded. Yet one of the biggest emerging risks in 2026 is not hidden malware or an unknown zero-day. It is the rapid deployment of AI agents that organisations barely understand, cannot fully inventory, and often cannot meaningfully govern. AI…
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New cPanel vulnerabilities could allow file access and remote code execution
cPanel fixed three flaws that could allow file reads, code execution, and privilege escalation. No active exploitation has been reported yet. cPanel has released security updates to fix three vulnerabilities affecting cPanel & WHM that could allow attackers to read files, execute code, or escalate privileges on vulnerable systems. Below are the descriptions for these…
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Ollama Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory. The out-of-bounds read flaw, which likely impacts over 300,000 servers globally, is tracked as CVE-2026-7482 (CVSS score: 9.1). It has been codenamed Bleeding Llama by Cyera. Ollama is a
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Official JDownloader site served malware to Windows and Linux users between May 6 and May 7
JDownloader website was hacked to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers carrying a Python RAT between May 6–7, 2026. JDownloader official website was compromised in a supply chain attack that replaced legitimate Windows and Linux installers with malicious files between May 6 and May 7, 2026. JDownloader is a free, open-source download management application designed…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 576 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX): A Fileless Linux Implant Built for Stealth and Persistence Braintrust security incident…
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Week in review: cPanel vulnerability actively exploited, DigiCert breach, LinkedIn job scams
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone Office work in 2026 relies on mobile apps used alongside personal tools like banking and messaging. Ten widely used workplace apps, including Gmail, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack, and Notion,…
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cPanel, WHM Release Fixes for Three New Vulnerabilities — Patch Now
cPanel has released updates to address three vulnerabilities in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation, code execution, and denial-of-service. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-29201 (CVSS score: 4.3) – An insufficient input validation of the feature file name in the “feature::LOADFEATUREFILE” adminbin call that…
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Five new holes, one exploited, found in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile
The five new vulnerabilities discovered in Ivanti’s on-premises mobile endpoint management solution are a “classic example of the legacy trap” that CSOs must avoid, says an expert. “Patch today to survive the weekend,” said Robert Enderle of the Enderle Group, “but start planning your exit from legacy MDM as soon as possible.” He was commenting…
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RansomHouse says it breached Trellix and exposes internal systems
RansomHouse claimed responsibility for the Trellix breach, adding the security firm to its Tor data leak site and sharing screenshots of internal systems. The RansomHouse ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on cybersecurity firm Trellix. To support its claims, the gang published screenshots allegedly showing access to internal Trellix services. In early…
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Cyberattacks on Poland’s Water Plants: A Blueprint for Hybrid Warfare
Poland’s ABW confirmed hackers breached ICS at five water plants, gaining ability to alter equipment settings. Russia-linked APT groups suspected. Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has published a detailed account of a sustained campaign targeting the country’s water plants, documenting security breaches at five water treatment facilities in 2025. The incidents mark one of the…
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Sen. Schumer seeks DHS plan on AI cyber coordination with state, local governments
The Senate’s top Democrat called on the Department of Homeland Security Friday to work closely with state and local governments to defend against artificial intelligence-strengthened hacks. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to make sure state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) governments aren’t left behind as AI models advance,…
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Dirty Frag: Unpatched Linux vulnerability delivers root access
A week after Copy Fail, another Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Dirty Frag” has been revealed, along with a PoC exploit. What is Dirty Frag In effect, Dirty Frag refers to two flaws: A xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write vulnerability (CVE-2026-43284, aka Copy Fail 2.0), now patched in the Linux kernel, affects the modules supporting one…
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Zara Data Breach: 197,000 Customers Exposed in Third-Party Security Incident
Nearly 200,000 Zara customers were exposed in a third-party breach linked to ShinyHunters, revealing emails, purchase history, and support data. Personal data belonging to nearly 197,000 Zara customers has been compromised following a cyberattack on a former technology provider used by Inditex, the Spanish fashion giant behind some of the world’s most recognized retail brands…
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Cisco Reveals Security Gaps in Vision Language Models
Vision language models (VLMs) continue to expand the capabilities of artificial intelligence by combining image and text understanding into a single system. However, recent research from Cisco into typographic prompt injection attacks highlights significant weaknesses in how these models interpret and secure visual information. The second installment of Reading Between the Pixels explores how small…
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Apple vs. social engineering: Terminal paste trap blocked
Echoing concerns from other security experts, Orange Cyberdefense (OC) recently warned that employees have become the biggest security threat faced by business. Now, in the latest illustration of its ongoing security response, Apple is putting new protections in place in macOS 26.4 that should help – but employee education remains critical as hackers turn to complex, multi-stage, social engineering…
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Flaw in Claude’s Chrome extension allowed ‘any’ other plugin to hijack victims’ AI
As businesses and governments turn to AI agents to access the internet and perform higher-level tasks, researchers continue to find serious flaws in large language models that can be exploited by bad actors. The latest discovery comes from browser security firm LayerX, involving a bug in the Chrome extension for Anthropic’s Claude AI model that…
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CISA gives feds four days to patch Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day
CISA has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their networks against a high-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) exploited in zero-day attacks. […]
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Claude in Chrome is taking orders from the wrong extensions
Anthropic Claude’s Chrome browser extension, known as Claude in Chrome, has a bug that can allow other malicious extensions to hijack it, compromising trusted AI workflows. Researchers at LayerX Security have warned that Claude’s overly trusted browser communication flows can be abused to inject scripts that can potentially hijack the assistant’s capabilities and manipulate browsing…
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Dirty Frag: A new Linux privilege escalation vulnerability is already in the wild
Dirty Frag: unpatched Linux kernel flaw grants root access on Ubuntu, RHEL and Fedora. A working exploit is already public. Security researchers have disclosed a new unpatched vulnerability in the Linux kernel, code-named Dirty Frag, that allows an unprivileged local user to gain full root access on most major Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora,…
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Ivanti EPMM vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-6973)
Ivanti has released fixes for 5 high-severity vulnerabilities in its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) solution, one of which (CVE-2026-6973) has being exploited as a zero-day by attackers. “We are aware of a very limited number of customers exploited with CVE-2026-6973,” the company said in a security advisory published on Thursday. About CVE-2026-6973 CVE-2026-6973 is caused…
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Your CTEM program is probably ignoring MCP. Here’s how to fix it
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the connective tissue of modern AI tooling and has quietly become one of the most significant blind spots in modern security programs. Like shadow IT before it, shadow AI — especially as it relates to MCP risk — introduces a new class of exposures that security teams lack adequate tooling…
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Pen tests show AI security flaws far more severe than legacy software bugs
Penetration tests of AI-based systems are revealing a greater percentage of high-risk flaws than those discovered in legacy systems. Security consultancy Cobalt’s annual State of Pentesting Report reveals that 32% of all AI and large language model (LLM) findings are rated as high risk — nearly 2.5 times the rate (13%) of severe flaws found…
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Your refresh plan has a CVE blind spot
The conversation is straightforward, but the problem behind it is not. The customer bought servers in 2017 and typically refresh every five to six years. Generally, around the 2022 to 2023 timeframe, they would have looked to buy new. Historically, that is what would have happened. But COVID hit, and there were supply chain constraints…
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New Linux PamDOORa Backdoor Uses PAM Modules to Steal SSH Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux backdoor named PamDOORa that’s being advertised on the Rehub Russian cybercrime forum for $1,600 by a threat actor called “darkworm.” The backdoor is designed as a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)-based post-exploitation toolkit that enables persistent SSH access by means of a magic password and specific TCP…
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April 2026 Leadership Recap: New CEOs and Promotions Start Q2
We’re at the start of Q2 of 2026, as hard as that is to believe – and with that comes new appointments to company leadership and promotions across the channel. Organizations such as Syspro, Kiteworks, Coro, and Paessler have all made significant updates to their executive benches to enhance their strategies. Read more about the…
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Another Universal Linux Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) Vulnerability: Dirty Frag, (Fri, May 8th)
Less than two weeks after the public disclosure of the Copy Fail vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431), another local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been revealed. Referred to as “Dirty Frag,” this vulnerability was discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel) [1]. In this diary, I will provide a brief background on Dirty Frag,…
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AI, Cyberwarfare, and Autonomous Weapons: Inside America’s New Military Strategy
The Pentagon is integrating AI into military operations, transforming cybersecurity, targeting, and command systems into a unified warfare architecture. May 2026 marks a turning point in the evolution of modern warfare: the convergence of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and conventional military power is no longer theoretical. It is becoming an operational reality. The Pentagon has signed…
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Linux Kernel Dirty Frag LPE Exploit Enables Root Access Across Major Distributions
Details have emerged about a new, unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting the Linux kernel. Dubbed Dirty Frag, it has been described as a successor to Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431, CVSS score: 7.8), a recently disclosed LPE flaw impacting the Linux kernel that has since come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability was…
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Palo Alto Networks firewall flaw has been exploited for several weeks
Palo Alto Networks warns that a critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in the PAN-OS firewall system. The vulnerability has already been exploited by suspected state-sponsored hackers for nearly a month, reports Bleeping Computer. The vulnerability, CVE-2026-0300, is located in the User-ID Authentication Portal (also known as the Captive Portal) and allows attackers to execute…
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ShinyHunters Extorts Universities in New Instructure Canvas Hack
Students across the United States were locked out of coursework, quizzes, and grades during finals week after threat actors defaced hundreds of Canvas login portals in a ShinyHunters-linked extortion campaign. The disruption impacted colleges, universities, and school districts worldwide, underscoring the growing cybersecurity risks facing cloud-based education platforms. “ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). Instead of…
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Become a millionaire by bug hunting on Android
Over the past decade, Google has introduced a wide range of bug bounty programs for its software and services. The company has now announced that the reward for individuals who discover vulnerabilities in Android or the Chrome browser is being increased, bringing the maximum reward to $1.5 million. However, reports indicate that you must find…
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13 new critical holes in JavaScript sandbox allow execution of arbitrary code
Thirteen critical vulnerabilities have been found in the vm2 JavaScript sandbox package that could allow an attacker’s code to escape the container and do nasty things to IT environments. As a result, developers using this library in their applications are urged to update the software to the latest version, which is currently 3.11.2. The warnings…
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Canvas login portals hacked in mass ShinyHunters extortion campaign
The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting another vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals for hundreds of colleges and universities. […]
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Ivanti customers confront yet another actively exploited zero-day
Attackers are hitting Ivanti customers yet again — circling back to a common target and consistently susceptible vendor in the network edge space — by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in one of the company’s most besieged products. Ivanti warned customers that attackers have successfully exploited CVE-2026-6973, an improper input validation defect in Ivanti Endpoint Manager…
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Ollama vulnerability highlights danger of AI frameworks with unrestricted access
A critical vulnerability in Ollama poses a direct risk of sensitive information leaks to more than 300,000 internet-exposed servers, researchers have found. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-7482, stems from an out-of-bounds heap read in Ollama’s model quantization pipeline. Ollama is one of the most popular frameworks for running AI models on local hardware. The flaw…
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Nation-state actors exploit Palo Alto PAN-OS zero-day for weeks
Palo Alto says hackers exploited PAN-OS zero-day CVE-2026-0300 for weeks, gaining root access to exposed firewalls and hiding traces. Palo Alto Networks warned that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting the critical PAN-OS zero-day CVE-2026-0300 for nearly a month. After exploiting the flaw, attackers deployed tunneling tools such as EarthWorm and ReverseSocks5, used stolen credentials…
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Inside the World of Laptop Farms: How They Help Foreign Remote Workers Look U.S.-Based to Earn More Money
The expansion of remote work fundamentally altered enterprise security models. Organizations that once relied on tightly controlled office environments suddenly began shipping pre-configured corporate laptops to workers they would never physically meet. VPN enrollment, SaaS identity platforms, remote onboarding systems, and cloud collaboration tools rapidly became the new trust perimeter. Criminal organizations and state-sponsored operators…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in the Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), tracked as CVE-2026-6973 (CVSS score of 7.1), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Ivanti warns customers…
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Deepfakes Are Exposing Gaps in Cyber Insurance Policies
Deepfakes are creating new cybersecurity risks that many organizations — and their cyber insurance policies — may not be fully prepared to address. As attackers increasingly use AI-generated voice, video, and identity impersonation in fraud and ransomware attacks, cybersecurity experts warn businesses must reassess both security strategies and cyber insurance coverage. During a recent Channel…
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Ivanti warns of new EPMM flaw exploited in zero-day attacks
Ivanti warned customers today to patch a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability in Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) exploited in zero-day attacks. […]
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CloudZ RAT Abuses Windows Phone Link to Steal OTPs
A malware campaign is exploiting a built-in Windows feature to intercept sensitive data — without ever touching the victim’s phone. Cisco Talos researchers identified the CloudZ remote access trojan (RAT) using a custom plugin to monitor Microsoft’s Phone Link application and potentially capture SMS-based one-time passwords (OTPs). “MFA bypass is becoming a bigger and bigger…
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Cisco patches high-severity flaws enabling SSRF, code execution attacks
Cisco fixed several high‑severity flaws in its enterprise products, including SSRF bugs in Unity Connection that could enable code execution or service disruption. Cisco released patches for multiple high‑severity vulnerabilities affecting its enterprise products. Successful exploitation could allow code execution, server‑side request forgery (SSRF), or denial‑of‑service attacks. Two notable flaws, CVE‑2026‑20034 and CVE‑2026‑20035, impact Cisco…
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PAN-OS RCE Exploit Under Active Use Enabling Root Access and Espionage
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that threat actors may have attempted to unsuccessfully exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw as early as April 9, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-0300 (CVSS score: 9.3/8.7), a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal service of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software that could allow an…
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WWDC 2026: How Apple can take a great leap in AI
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) takes place in just a few weeks. Everyone expects the company to explain its approach to AI deployment on its platforms. With that in mind, here’s what several months of speculation suggest Apple will announce, though the details remain to be disclosed. Apple is investing billions of dollars in these plans; R&D spending…
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State-sponsored hackers likely behind zero-day attacks on Palo Alto firewalls
Palo Alto Networks believes the in-the-wild exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-0300) in its firewalls is likely the work of state-sponsored threat actors. A flaw with no patch (yet) CVE-2026-0300 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal service of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software, and can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers sending…
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Critical Palo Alto Networks software bug hits exposed firewalls
Palo Alto Networks is warning customers about a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting its PAN-OS user-ID authentication portal that is already being exploited in the wild. The flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on exposed firewalls, the company said in a security advisory. PAN-OS is the software that runs all Palo…
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Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
Palo Alto Networks warned customers that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity PAN-OS firewall zero-day vulnerability for nearly a month. […]
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From Android TVs to routers: the xlabs_v1 Mirai-based botnet built for DDoS attacks
A new Mirai‑based botnet, xlabs_v1, hijacks ADB‑exposed IoT devices for powerful DDoS attacks, with 21 flooding methods and DDoS‑for‑hire use. A new Mirai‑derived botnet called xlabs_v1 is hijacking internet‑exposed devices running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and using them for large‑scale DDoS attacks. Hunt.io discovered the bot on an unsecured server, it includes 21 flood techniques…
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CallPhantom Android scam reached 7.3 million downloads on Google Play
Scams targeting Android users in India and across the Asia-Pacific region have grown around a long-standing curiosity gap: the desire to look up call records tied to a phone number. A cluster of 28 fraudulent apps on Google Play exploited that gap and pulled in more than 7.3 million downloads before the store removed them.…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, tracked as CVE-2026-0300 (CVSS score of 9.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaw is a buffer…
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Mythos AI: What Security Leaders Should Do Next
The recent discussion around Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing has caught the attention of the cybersecurity industry for good reason. Mythos is not just another AI announcement. It is being positioned as a frontier model with advanced cybersecurity capability, particularly around finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. Anthropic has stated that Project Glasswing is…
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vm2 Node.js Library Vulnerabilities Enable Sandbox Escape and Arbitrary Code Execution
A dozen critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the vm2 Node.js library that could be exploited by bad actors to break out of the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on susceptible systems. vm2 is an open-source library used to run untrusted JavaScript code inside a secure sandbox by intercepting and proxying JavaScript objects to…
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US government agency to safety test frontier AI models before release
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), a division of the US Department of Commerce, has signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI that would give the agency the ability to vet AI models from these organizations and others prior to their being made publicly available. According to a release from CAISI, which…
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US government agency to safety test frontier AI models before release
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), a division of the US Department of Commerce, has signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI that would give the agency the ability to vet AI models from these organizations and others prior to their being made publicly available. According to a release from CAISI, which…
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An Adaptive Cyber Analytics UI for Web Honeypot Logs [Guest Diary], (Wed, May 6th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Eric Roldan, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Through the expansion of Large Language Models (LLMs), cybersecurity has exploded with a variety of tools for both offensive and defensive purposes. A majority of software and cyber tools are integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions into their…
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Taiwan High-Speed Rail Emergency Braking Hack: How a Student Stopped the Trains and Exposed a Major Security Gap
Taiwan high‑speed rail was disrupted after a 23‑year‑old student spoofed signals and triggered an emergency alarm, stopping four trains for nearly an hour. Taiwan high‑speed rail system, one of the most important pieces of national infrastructure, was thrown into chaos during the Qingming Festival holiday when several trains suddenly came to an unexpected halt. Experts…
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A DOD contractor’s API flaw exposed military course data and service member records
A defense technology company with Department of Defense contracts exposed user records and military training materials through API endpoints that lacked meaningful authorization checks, according to an account published by Strix, an open-source autonomous security testing project. The issue affected Schemata, an AI-powered virtual training platform used in military and defense settings. According to Strix,…
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A critical Palo Alto PAN-OS zero-day is being exploited in the wild
Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability affecting some Palo Alto Networks’ customers’ firewalls, the security vendor said in an advisory Tuesday. The critical memory corruption vulnerability — CVE-2026-0300 — affects the authentication portal of PAN-OS, and allows unauthenticated attackers to run code with root privileges on the vendor’s PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls, the company…
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Palo Alto Networks Firewall Zero-Day Exploited in Active Attacks
Palo Alto Networks recently disclosed a firewall vulnerability that is already being exploited in the wild. The flaw affects the PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal and could allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code with root privileges on vulnerable devices. This vulnerability “… allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the…
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Iranian cyber espionage disguised as a Chaos Ransomware attack
Iran-linked APT MuddyWater used ransomware-style tactics to mask espionage, combining phishing, credential theft, data exfiltration, and extortion without encryption. A newly discovered cyber intrusion attributed to the Iran-linked APT MuddyWater (aka SeedWorm, TEMP.Zagros, Mango Sandstorm, TA450, and Static Kitten) reveals how state-sponsored attackers are increasingly leveraging ransomware tactics to disguise espionage operations. The campaign, uncovered by security researchers at Rapid7, blended…
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CVE-2026-23918: Critical Apache HTTP/2 Flaw Can Trigger DoS and Possible RCE
Apache has patched CVE-2026-23918, a critical flaw in Apache HTTP Server’s HTTP/2 handling that Apache describes as a “double free and possible RCE.” The issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.66 and was fixed in 2.4.67, released on May 4, 2026. The CVE-2026-23918 vulnerability matters because it can be abused remotely and without authentication. Public reporting…
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CVE-2026-23918: Critical Apache HTTP/2 Flaw Can Trigger DoS and Possible RCE
Apache has patched CVE-2026-23918, a critical flaw in Apache HTTP Server’s HTTP/2 handling that Apache describes as a “double free and possible RCE.” The issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.66 and was fixed in 2.4.67, released on May 4, 2026. The CVE-2026-23918 vulnerability matters because it can be abused remotely and without authentication. Public reporting…
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CVE-2026-0300: Palo Alto PAN-OS Zero-Day Enables Root RCE on Exposed Firewalls
Edge security appliances remain high-value targets, especially when a flaw can be exploited before a patch is widely available. The CVE-2026-0300 vulnerability is a critical buffer overflow in the User-ID Authentication Portal, also known as Captive Portal, in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS. Palo Alto rates it 9.3/10 when the portal is exposed to the internet…
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CVE-2026-0300: Palo Alto PAN-OS Zero-Day Enables Root RCE on Exposed Firewalls
Edge security appliances remain high-value targets, especially when a flaw can be exploited before a patch is widely available. The CVE-2026-0300 vulnerability is a critical buffer overflow in the User-ID Authentication Portal, also known as Captive Portal, in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS. Palo Alto rates it 9.3/10 when the portal is exposed to the internet…
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Apache fixes critical HTTP/2 double-free flaw CVE-2026-23918 enabling RCE
Apache fixed several flaws in HTTP Server, including CVE-2026-23918 (CVSS score of 8.8), a double-free bug in HTTP/2 that could allow remote code execution. The Apache Software Foundation has released updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities in its HTTP Server, including CVE-2026-23918 (CVSS score of 8.8). The issue involves a “double free” error in HTTP/2 handling…
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Root-level RCE vulnerability in Palo Alto firewalls exploited (CVE-2026-0300)
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-0300) affecting Palo Alto Networks firewalls is being actively exploited by attackers, the security company acknowledged today, and urged customers to implement mitigations as they are still working on fixes. About CVE-2026-0300 CVE-2026-0300 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal (aka Captive Portal) service of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS…
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Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall RCE zero-day exploited in attacks
Palo Alto Networks warned customers today that a critical-severity unpatched vulnerability in the PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal is being exploited in attacks. […]
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Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaw exploited for remote code execution
Palo Alto Networks warns of a critical PAN-OS flaw (CVE-2026-0300) that is under active attack, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Palo Alto Networks has warned that a critical PAN-OS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300 (CVSS score of 9.3), is actively exploited in the wild. The flaw is a buffer overflow that allows unauthenticated remote code execution,…
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Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables Remote Code Execution
Palo Alto Networks has released an advisory warning that a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in its PAN-OS software has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, has been described as a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. It carries a CVSS score of 9.3 if the User-ID Authentication Portal is configured to…