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CVE-2026-42945: 18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Flaw May Enable Unauthenticated RCE

Web infrastructure bugs remain especially dangerous when they sit in widely deployed request-handling logic for years without detection. Among the latest vulnerabilities impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, the CVE-2026-42945 vulnerability stands out as an 18-year-old heap buffer overflow in ngx_http_rewrite_module that can be reached by an unauthenticated attacker through crafted HTTP requests and may…

CVE-2026-46300: Fragnesia Linux Kernel Flaw Grants Root via Page Cache Corruption

Local privilege-escalation bugs remain especially dangerous when they turn an ordinary user foothold into immediate root access. The CVE-2026-46300 vulnerability, nicknamed Fragnesia, is a high-severity Linux kernel flaw in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem that allows an unprivileged local attacker to write arbitrary bytes into the page cache of read-only files and escalate privileges. Public reporting…

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…

Free VPNs leak your data while claiming privacy

Most free Android VPNs track users, request dangerous permissions, and connect to risky servers, privacy comes at a hidden cost. Free VPN apps are some of the most popular downloads on Android, promising privacy at no cost. But the reality is far from what they advertise. Most users tap “install” without a second thought, unaware…

SonicWall Report Finds Preventable Risks Drive Breaches

The most dangerous cybersecurity threat facing businesses today isn’t a novel, AI-generated attack. It’s a stolen password, an unpatched system, and the quiet confidence that it won’t happen to you. That is the sobering conclusion of the 2026 SonicWall Cyber Protect Report, released today. In a reframing of traditional threat reporting, the company has shifted…

Attackers Don’t Just Send Phishing Emails. They Weaponize Your SOC’s Workload

The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees. Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them. When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to a breach. For years, the cybersecurity industry has focused on the front door of phishing…