Imagine this scenario: on an otherwise fine and ordinary Monday morning, your security operations center (SOC) flags a suspicious alert. Files from a confidential vault are transferring to someone’s personal cloud storage account. Halt! An analyst stops the flow, but some files are leaked to who-knows-where. In fact, other than knowing the leak happened, you…
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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…
Global Security News, Network Security
Residential proxies make a mockery of IP-based defenses
Attack traffic moved through ordinary home and mobile connections in ways that limited the usefulness of IP reputation on its own. GreyNoise observed 4 billion malicious sessions during a 90-day period and described activity that appeared indistinguishable from normal user traffic at the network level. Residential proxies routed traffic through consumer broadband, mobile data, and…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
Pretend Disk Format: PDFs harbor new dangers
A particularly insidious phishing campaign is disguising malware pretending to be ordinary PDF documents behind links to virtual hard disks. Because workers are used to receiving purchase orders or invoices in the PDF format, they are likely to open the malicious files unthinkingly, enabling the malware they contain — in this case AsyncRAT, a remote-access…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
Pretend Disk Format: PDFs harbor new dangers
A particularly insidious phishing campaign is disguising malware pretending to be ordinary PDF documents behind links to virtual hard disks. Because workers are used to receiving purchase orders or invoices in the PDF format, they are likely to open the malicious files unthinkingly, enabling the malware they contain — in this case AsyncRAT, a remote-access…