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Cloud Security Alliance Report Highlights Growing Patch Gap Risks 

Despite years of investment in vulnerability scanning and shift-left security practices, known vulnerabilities continue to drive production security incidents, according to the Cloud Security Alliance’s 2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security Report.   As AI accelerates both vulnerability discovery and exploit development, organizations are facing increasing pressure to reduce exposure windows before attackers can…

Google June 2026 Android Update Patches 124 Flaws, One Actively Exploited

Google on Monday released patches for 124 security vulnerabilities impacting its Android operating system for the month of June 2026, including one high-severity flaw in the Framework component that has come under active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2025-48595 (CVSS score: 8.4), the security flaw has been described as a case of privilege escalation without requiring any…

Google fixes actively exploited Android vulnerability (CVE-2025-48595)

Google has announced the June 2026 Android security updates, which fix a bucketload of vulnerabilities, including a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-48595) in the Android Framework that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” About CVE-2025-48595 CVE-2025-48595 is an integer overflow vulnerability in the Android Framework, a set of APIs and system services that apps interact with directly.…

AI-Driven Exploitation is Destroying Vulnerability Management. Here’s How to Handle It.

AI-driven exploitation timelines are rapidly shrinking, and they are not going to stop shrinking. Vulnerabilities are being discovered, reproduced, and weaponized faster than ever in the history of enterprise security. As a result, the window between a vulnerability being disclosed and indiscriminate exploitation observed across the internet is now measured in hours, not days. The…

Cato cuts vulnerability protection time to 45 minutes with agentic threat research

Cato Networks announced a new capability that reduces time-to-protect for newly disclosed vulnerabilities to 45 minutes. The company attributes this reduction to the use of agentic threat research designed to accelerate protection against emerging exploits. Traditional appliance-based security depends on a slow customer-operated patching cycle: vendors develop protections, customers receive updates, teams test them, and…

Hackers are exploiting Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN authentication bypass (CVE-2026-0257)

Authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-0257) in Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls that the company disclosed on May 13 have been targeted in “limited exploit attempts”. “Across multiple customers, Rapid7 observed successful exploitation via authentication probes using forged cookies, but the appliance accepted the cookie without a full VPN session being established in 8 out of 10 impacted…

Notepad++ vulnerabilities could enable arbitrary code execution on Windows systems

Two arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Notepad++ let local attackers run commands of their choice on Windows machines by tampering with the editor’s XML configuration files, with both flaws rated High at CVSS 7.8. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-48778 and CVE-2026-48800, affect every version of the editor up to and including 8.9.6, Notepad++ said in…

Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era

Security teams already struggle with long lists of vulnerabilities and limited time to patch them. Cisco believes AI could increase that pressure by accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing the number of findings security teams need to review. The company said it is moving further toward a risk-based disclosure approach, placing greater attention on issues under…

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing: 10,000+ Vulnerabilities Found in One Month, and the Patching Problem Has Never Been More Obvious

Anthropic said its AI Project Glasswing found over 10,000 serious vulnerabilities in one month, exposing a growing patching gap. Anthropic announced on Friday that Project Glasswing, its defensive cybersecurity initiative built around Claude Mythos Preview, has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in the month since the program went live. The number is…

Microsoft patches two zero-day flaws in Defender

Microsoft released emergency fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities in the malware protection components of Microsoft Defender. The flaws allow local attackers to gain system-level privileges or cause the anti-malware service to stop working correctly. Both conditions are valuable in a malware attack, first to prevent detection if the system relies only on Microsoft endpoint protection…

Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-41091, CVE-2026-45498)

Attackers are exploiting two Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-41091 and CVE-2026-45498), Microsoft acknowledged and CISA confirmed by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The vulnerabilities CVE-2026-41091 allows for local privilege elevation (LPE), and is caused by the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine improperly resolving links before accessing files. “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability…

Attackers hit vulnerabilities hard last year, making exploits the top entry point for breaches

Attackers couldn’t get enough of the vulnerabilities at their disposal last year, making exploits the top initial access vector across more than 22,000 breaches Verizon analyzed in its latest Data Breach Investigations Report released Tuesday. The massive annual study uncovered a surge of exploited vulnerabilities during a one-year period ending in October 2025. Exploited defects…

SEPPMail Secure E-Mail Gateway Vulnerabilities Enable RCE and Mail Traffic Access

Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in SEPPMail Secure E-Mail Gateway, an enterprise-grade email security solution, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and enable an attacker to read arbitrary mails from the virtual appliance. “These vulnerabilities could have been exploited to read all mail traffic or as an entry vector into the…

OpenClaw Vulnerabilities Could Enable Full AI Agent Takeover

Researchers at Cyera disclosed four chainable vulnerabilities in OpenClaw, collectively named Claw Chain, that could allow attackers to escape AI agent sandboxes, steal credentials, escalate privileges, and establish persistent access across enterprise environments.  The findings raise broader concerns about the security risks surrounding autonomous AI agent platforms.  “Each step looks like normal agent behavior to…

Ivanti, Fortinet, SAP, VMware, n8n Patch RCE, SQL Injection, Privilege Escalation Flaws

Ivanti, Fortinet, n8n, SAP, and VMware have released security fixes for various vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code. Topping the list is a critical flaw impacting Ivanti Xtraction (CVE-2026-8043, CVSS score: 9.6) that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure or client-side attacks. “External control of…

When ransomware hits, confidence doesn’t restore endpoints

Ransomware, supply chain vulnerabilities, insider threats, compliance failures, and software disruptions remain major concerns for security leaders, according to The Ransomware Reality: Zero Days to Recover report by Absolute Security. How CISOs currently ensure endpoint resilience against ransomware (overall, %) (Source: Absolute Security) A survey of 750 CISOs from enterprise organizations with more than 5,000…

Windows Zero-Days Expose BitLocker Bypasses And CTFMON Privilege Escalation

An anonymous cybersecurity researcher who disclosed three Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities has returned with two more zero-days involving a BitLocker bypass and a privilege escalation impacting Windows Collaborative Translation Framework (CTFMON). The security defects have been codenamed YellowKey and GreenPlasma, respectively, by the researcher, who goes by the online aliases Chaotic Eclipse

18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, including a critical flaw that remained undetected for 18 years. The vulnerability, discovered by depthfirst, is a heap buffer overflow issue impacting ngx_http_rewrite_module (CVE-2026-42945, CVSS v4 score: 9.2) that could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution or cause a

May Patch Tuesday roundup: Critical holes in Windows Netlogon, DNS, and SAP S/4HANA

Critical vulnerabilities in Windows Server’s networking and identity infrastructure, as well as a serious hole in Microsoft Dynamics 365 on-premises version, highlight Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday fixes. They are among the 118 vulnerabilities identified this month by the company. Some in cloud-based services like Azure and Microsoft Teams have already been fixed, so no admin…

Microsoft addresses 137 vulnerabilities in May’s Patch Tuesday, including 13 rated critical

Microsoft addressed another triple-digit batch of vulnerabilities cutting across its various enterprise products, components and underlying systems. Yet despite the high number of defects, the vendor reported no actively exploited zero-days in this month’s Patch Tuesday update. Thirteen of the 137 vulnerabilities Microsoft disclosed were assigned critical CVSS ratings, including a pair of vulnerabilities affecting…

Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday, (Tue, May 12th)

Today’s Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 137 different vulnerabilities. In addition, the update addresses 137 Chromium-related issues affecting Microsoft Edge. There are no already disclosed or already exploited vulnerabilities included in today’s patches. I removed the Chromium issues from the table below and included only the 137 Microsoft issues to make it more readable. Note that issues…

The world’s most “Dangerous” AI, Anthropic’s Mythos, found only one flaw in curl

Anthropic’s AI found five vulnerabilities in curl, but only one low-severity issue proved to be a real vulnerability. In April, Anthropic made considerable noise announcing Mythos, a new artificial intelligence model described as so effective at identifying vulnerabilities in code as to be, in the company’s own words, “dangerously good.” So good, in fact, that…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Critical Apache HTTP/2 Flaw (CVE-2026-23918) Enables DoS and Potential RCE

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released security updates to address several security vulnerabilities in the HTTP Server, including a severe vulnerability that could potentially lead to remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23918 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a case of “double free and possible RCE” in the HTTP/2 protocol…

Unpatched flaws turn Ollama’s auto-updater into a persistent RCE vector, researchers say

Researchers at Striga have disclosed two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-42248, CVE-2026-42249) in Ollama’s Windows auto-updater that, when chained together, may allow an attacker to covertly plant a persistent executable that runs on every login. CVE-2026-42248 and CVE-2026-42249 Ollama is an open-source tool for running large language models locally. It’s is used by those who don’t want their…

Wireshark 4.6.5 Released, (Sun, May 3rd)

Wireshark release 4.6.5 fixes 43 vulnerabilities (38 CVEs) and 35 bugs. This high number of fixes is due to AI: “This release fixes quite a few vulnerabilities. This is due to to a recent trend in AI-assisted vulnerability reports.“   Didier Stevens Senior handler blog.DidierStevens.com (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0…

CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is below – CVE-2024-57726 (CVSS score: 9.9) – A missing authorization vulnerability in

Progress Software fixes sneaky WAF bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-21876)

Progress Software has fixed a slew of high-severity vulnerabilities in MOVEit WAF and LoadMaster, including a flaw (CVE-2026-21876) that may allow attackers to bypass firewall detection. MOVEit WAF (web application firewall) is designed to protect Progress’s managed file transfer platform MOVEit Transfer from web-based attacks. (A zero-day vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer was infamously exploited in…

22 BRIDGE:BREAK Flaws Expose 20,000 Lantronix and Silex Serial-to-IP Converters

Cybersecurity researchers have identified 22 new vulnerabilities in popular models of serial-to-IP converters from Lantronix and Silex that could be exploited to hijack susceptible devices and tamper with data exchanged by them. The vulnerabilities have been collectively codenamed BRIDGE:BREAK by Forescout Research Vedere Labs, which identified nearly 20,000 Serial-to-Ethernet converters exposed

BeyondTrust’s 13th Annual Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report Reveals Drop in Total Volume, But Surge in Critical Risk

GUEST RESEARCH:  Critical vulnerabilities doubled year-over-year, signalling rising risk severity as AI-driven discovery and expanding attack surfaces reshape the Microsoft security landscape Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 40% of all flaws, continuing to dominate threat actor pathways and reinforcing identity as the primary attack vector Azure and Dynamics 365, saw a 9x increase in…

CISA flags another Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bug as exploited (CVE-2026-20133)

CISA added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability (CVE-2026-20133) that Cisco has yet to flag as exploited. Three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerabilities Alongside CVE-2026-20133, CISA has also listed CVE-2026-20128 and CVE-2026-20122 – two other Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerabilities – as being leveraged in…

CISA Adds 8 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets April-May 2026 Federal Deadlines

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including three flaws impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2023-27351 (CVSS score: 8.2) – An improper authentication vulnerability in PaperCut

NIST Scales Back Vulnerability Scoring in 2026 as CVE Volume Surges

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is narrowing how it analyzes and scores software vulnerabilities, citing a sharp increase in submissions that has made it difficult to keep pace.  “For years, security teams relied on NVD for vulnerability context to support prioritization decisions. But that model is under real strain,” said Ian Gray,…

NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge in Vulnerability Submissions

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it will only enrich those that fulfil certain conditions owing to an explosion in CVE submissions. “CVEs that do not meet those criteria will still be…

Fortinet fixes critical FortiSandbox vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808)

Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808) in FortiSandbox could be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized code or commands on vulnerable systems. Both vulnerabilities can be triggered with a specially crafted HTTP request, putting unpatched FortiSandbox deployments at risk. About FortiSandbox FortiSandbox is Fortinet’s security solution for detecting and analyzing advanced threats. It…

NIST narrows scope of CVE analysis to keep up with rising tide of vulnerabilities

The federal agency tasked with analyzing security vulnerabilities is overwhelmed as it and other authorities struggle to keep pace with a flood of defects that grows every year. The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced Wednesday that it has capitulated to that deluge and narrowed the priorities for its National Vulnerability Database. NIST said…

April Patch Tuesday Fixes Critical Flaws Across SAP, Adobe, Microsoft, Fortinet, and More

A number of critical vulnerabilities impacting products from Adobe, Fortinet, Microsoft, and SAP have taken center stage in April’s Patch Tuesday releases. Topping the list is an SQL injection vulnerability impacting SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP Business Warehouse (CVE-2026-27681, CVSS score: 9.9) that could result in the execution of arbitrary database 

OpenAI expands its cyber defense program with GPT-5.4-Cyber for vetted researchers

Defending critical software has long depended on the ability to find and fix vulnerabilities faster than attackers can exploit them. OpenAI is expanding a program designed to give professional defenders prioritized access to AI tools built for that purpose. The company is scaling its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program to thousands of verified individual…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2026 fixed actively exploited SharePoint zero-day

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for April 2026 fixed 165 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited SharePoint zero-day. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 165 vulnerabilities, making it one of the largest updates by CVE count. One of the most interesting flaws fixed by the IT giant is a critical SharePoint zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-32201, already…

Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition

Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in Windows Defender dubbed “BlueHammer.” Separately, Google Chrome fixed its fourth zero-day of 2026, and an emergency update for Adobe Reader nixes an actively exploited…

Microsoft drops its second-largest monthly batch of defects on record

Microsoft addressed 165 vulnerabilities affecting its various products and underlying systems, including one actively exploited vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint, in this month’s Patch Tuesday update.  “By my count, this is the second-largest monthly release in Microsoft’s history,” Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, wrote in a blog post…

Hackers have been exploiting an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability for months

Adobe Reader vulnerabilities have been exploited for decades by threat actors taking advantage of the universal use of the utility to fool employees into downloading infected PDF documents through phishing lures. Now a security researcher says a Reader hole has been quietly exploited by malware for as long as four months, fingerprinting computers to gather…

Cisco IMC auth bypass vulnerability allows attackers to alter user passwords (CVE-2026-20093)

Cisco has fixed ten vulnerabilities affecting its Integrated Management Controller (IMC), the most critical of which (CVE-2026-20093) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to the system as Admin. Cisco ICM riddled with vulnerabilities Cisco Integrated Management Controller is a built-in hardware management system used in Cisco servers. It allows…

Chrome Vulnerability CVE-2026-5281 Exploited in the Wild

Google has released a Chrome update for multiple high-severity flaws and confirmed that one of the vulnerabilities is being actively exploited in the wild.  We are “… aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-5281 exists in the wild,” said Google in its advisory. Inside CVE-2026-5281 The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5281, is a use-after-free flaw affecting Chrome’s…

New Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2026-5281 Under Active Exploitation — Patch Released

Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address 21 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-5281 (CVSS score: N/A), concerns a use-after-free bug in Dawn, an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard. “Use-after-free in Dawn in Google…