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Google AI
Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI

Google’s threat intelligence researchers have linked a zero-day exploit to AI-assisted development by a criminal group. The exploit targeted a popular open-source …

Linux
Dirty Frag: Unpatched Linux vulnerability delivers root access

A week after Copy Fail, another Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Dirty Frag” has been revealed, along with a PoC exploit. What is Dirty Frag …

cPanel
Multiple threat actors actively exploit cPanel vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940)

The situation around the critical cPanel authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940) has deteriorated significantly since our initial coverage. Exploratory probing …

Linux
Nine-year-old Linux kernel flaw enables reliable local privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431)

Security researchers at Theori have disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) in the Linux kernel. The flaw, nicknamed …

attack
New Mirai variants target routers and DVRs in parallel campaigns

Hidden inside newly discovered botnet malware is an unusual message from its creator: “AI.NEEDS.TO.DIE”. Dubbed “tuxnokill” by researchers at Akamai, …

Microsoft Windows Defender
Researcher drops two more Microsoft Defender zero-days, all three now exploited in the wild

The security researcher who earlier this month published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Defender is back with …

PDF
Acrobat Reader zero-day exploited in the wild for many months (CVE-2026-34621)

Unknown attackers have exploited a zero-day Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerability since November 2025 and possibly even earlier, security researcher Haifei Li has discovered. PDF …

Microsoft Windows Defender
BlueHammer: Windows zero-day exploit leaked

A buggy but functional proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for an unpatched Windows local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed BlueHammer has been published on GitHub by …

FreeScout
FreeScout vulnerability enables unauthenticated, zero-click RCE via email (CVE-2026-28289)

A newly discovered vulnerability (CVE-2026-28289) in the open-source help desk platform FreeScout could allow attackers to take over vulnerable servers by sending a specially …

Cisco
Threat actor leveraged Cisco SD-WAN zero-day since 2023 (CVE-2026-20127)

A “highly sophisticated” cyber threat actor has been exploiting a zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-20127) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller …

Google Chrome
Google patches Chrome vulnerability with in-the-wild exploit (CVE-2026-2441)

Google released a security update for Chrome to address a high-severity zero‑day vulnerability (CVE-2026-2441) on Friday. “Google is aware that an exploit for …

BeyondTrust
Hackers probe, exploit newly patched BeyondTrust RCE flaw (CVE-2026-1731)

Attackers are exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731) in internet-facing BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access instances. …

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