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7 tips for accelerating cyber incident recovery

Despite strong and redundant defenses, enterprises remain vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. And because attacks — and cyber incidents — are inevitable, developing an incident response and recovery process that’s quick, comprehensive, and coordinated is essential. Expediting incident recovery time is critical because the longer an outage persists, the more costs, risk, and business…

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…

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…

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…

Over 1,300 SharePoint Servers Still Exposed to Actively Exploited Spoofing Flaw

More than 1,300 internet-exposed Microsoft SharePoint servers remain unpatched against a spoofing flaw previously exploited as a zero-day. “Improper input validation in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network,” said Microsoft in its advisory. SharePoint Servers Still Exposed  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32201, affects SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, SharePoint…

Legitify: Open-source scanner for security misconfigurations on GitHub and GitLab

Misconfigured source code management platforms remain a common entry point in software supply chain attacks, and organizations often lack visibility into which settings put them at risk. Legitify, an open-source tool from Legit Security, addresses that gap by scanning GitHub and GitLab environments and reporting policy violations across organizations, repositories, members, and CI/CD runner groups.…

A Little Bit Pivoting: What Web Shells are Attackers Looking for?, (Tue, Apr 7th)

Webshells remain a popular method for attackers to maintain persistence on a compromised web server. Many “arbitrary file write” and “remote code execution” vulnerabilities are used to drop small files on systems for later execution of additional payloads. The names of these files keep changing and are often chosen to “fit in” with other files. Webshells themselves…

Attackers Exploit RCE Flaw as 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM Instances Remain Exposed

Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances remain exposed online, as attackers actively exploit a critical remote code execution flaw CVE-2025-53521. Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances remain exposed online, with attackers actively exploiting the critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2025-53521 (CVSS ver. 3.1 score of 9.8), the nonprofit security organization Shadowserver warns. The vulnerability in BIG-IP…

Attackers are handing off access in 22 seconds, Mandiant finds

Exploits remain the leading entry point for attackers for the sixth consecutive year, according to Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 report, which draws on more than 500,000 hours of incident response work conducted in 2025. The data shows attackers speeding up their internal hand-offs, shifting away from email phishing, and targeting backup and virtualization infrastructure with greater…

SecurityBridge Taps Jesper Zerlang to Lead Global Growth

Enterprise ERP systems remain one of the most overlooked attack surfaces in cybersecurity. In an interview with Channel Insider, newly appointed SecurityBridge CEO Jesper Zerlang said closing that SAP security gap will define the company’s next phase of growth as it accelerates global expansion and deepens channel partnerships. Former board member turned executive charts early…