Assume the breach. Zero-days keep shipping, AI is writing exploits faster than anyone patches, and “patch everything in time” stopped working years ago. Stop betting the org on winning that race. You don’t control which bug lands. You control what it can reach once it does. That is a question about the shape of your…
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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: On the Ground With TrendAI™ ZDI’s Biggest AI Showdown Yet
47 zero-days fell at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 for US$1,298,250 in payouts. TrendAI™ was on the ground all three days — here’s what we saw.
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Microsoft Calls the Zero-Day Dumps Irresponsible. The Researcher Says Microsoft Started It.
A researcher dropped 6 Windows zero-days with no warning. Three are now exploited in the wild. Microsoft is angry. The researcher says Microsoft ignored them first. Over the past month, a researcher going by Chaotic Eclipse, also known as Nightmare-Eclipse, publicly released details of six unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows components including Defender and BitLocker. No…
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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, Day Three: DEVCORE Crowned Master of Pwn, $1.298 Million Total
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 ended with 47 zero-days and $1.29M in payouts, as DEVCORE dominated the competition across all categories. Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 ended after three intense days, with participants discovering 47 unique zero-days, and earning $1,298,250 in total payouts. Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 wrapped up at OffensiveCon on Saturday with a final day that sealed DEVCORE’s…
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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, Day Two: $385,750 more, Microsoft Exchange falls, and the running total crosses $900K
Day two of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 saw $385,750 earned for 15 zero-days, bringing the total to $908,750 and 39 vulnerabilities over two days. During the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, security researchers earned $385,750 after successfully demonstrating 15 unique zero-day vulnerabilities affecting products such as Windows 11, Microsoft Exchange, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux…
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Researchers uncover YellowKey and GreenPlasma Windows Zero-Days
Researchers disclosed two new Windows zero-days named YellowKey and GreenPlasma affecting BitLocker and the CTFMON framework. A security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse, also called Nightmare-Eclipse, disclosed two new Windows zero-day vulnerabilities named YellowKey and GreenPlasma. The flaws affect BitLocker and the Windows Collaborative Translation Framework (CTFMON). YellowKey could allow attackers to bypass BitLocker protections,…
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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, Day One: $523,000 paid out, AI products fall
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 day one saw 22 entries and 24 zero-days across major software, with researchers earning $523,000 in total rewards. Day one of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 featured 22 entries targeting widely used technologies, including browsers, operating systems, AI platforms, and NVIDIA infrastructure. By the end of the day, researchers demonstrated 24 unique zero-day vulnerabilities…
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It’s Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and Not a Zero-Day In Sight
It’s the first time in two years with no zero-days. But with 137 flaws to patch, including nine critical ones, admins still have plenty of work to do.
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Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 120 flaws, no zero-days
Today is Microsoft’s May 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 120 flaws and no zero-days disclosed this month. […]
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Microsoft Defender under attack as three zero-days, two of them still unpatched, enable elevated access
Attackers exploit three Microsoft Defender zero-days, code-named BlueHammer, RedSun, and UnDefend, to gain elevated access. Attackers are exploiting three recently disclosed zero-day flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain higher privileges on compromised systems. The vulnerabilities, called BlueHammer, RedSun, and UnDefend, were revealed by a researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse after criticizing Microsoft’s handling of the…
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Privilege Elevation Dominates Massive Microsoft Patch Update
Elevation-of-privilege bugs accounted for more than half of the 165 vulnerabilities patched, with two zero-days in that mix.
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CVE-2026-3910: Chrome V8 Zero-Day Used for In-the-Wild Attacks
Chrome zero-days continue to pose a major risk for cyber defenders. Earlier this year, Google patched CVE-2026-2441, the first actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026. Now, another emergency update has been released, fixing two more flaws already exploited in the wild, CVE-2026-3910 in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine and CVE-2026-3909, an out-of-bounds write bug…
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Zero-day exploits hit enterprises faster and harder
Google tracked 90 vulnerabilities exploited as zero-days last year, with Chinese cyberespionage groups doubling their count from 2024 and commercial surveillance vendors overtaking state-sponsored hackers for the first time. Nearly half of the recorded zero-days targeted enterprise technologies such as security appliances, VPNs, networking devices, and enterprise software platforms. “Increased exploitation of security and networking…
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CVE-2026-21385: Google Patches Qualcomm Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Android Attacks
Steady cadence of Android zero-days marked as exploited in the wild makes its path to 2026. Following CVE-2025-48633 and CVE-2025-48572, two Android Framework bugs Google flagged for active exploitation, defenders keep seeing the same familiar pattern. Mobile-chain vulnerabilities can move fast from limited attacks to real enterprise risk when patching lags. In March 2026, that…
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CVE-2026-22769: Critical Dell RecoveryPoint Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild
SOC Prime has recently covered a wave of actively exploited zero-days across major ecosystems, including Apple’s CVE-2026-20700 and Microsoft’s CVE-2026-20805, alongside a fresh Chrome zero-day case. But the avalanche of threats keeps marching into 2026. Recently, researchers from Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) detailed the active exploitation of CVE-2026-22769, a maximum-severity hardcoded-credential vulnerability…
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Microsoft Patches 6 Actively Exploited Zero-Days
Three of those zero-days are security feature bypass flaws, which give attackers a way to slip past built-in protections in multiple Microsoft products.