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Microsoft Slams Public Zero-Day Disclosures Amid GitHub Researcher Account Removal

Microsoft has come out strongly in favor of Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD), urging the research community to share their findings and give affected vendors an opportunity to better understand the impact and address them before they are publicly disclosed. The development comes after a researcher named Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) disclosed details of multiple zero-day

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Critical FortiClient EMS Vulnerability Exploited in Fresh Attacks

Fortinet rolled out hotfixes for the security defect in April, warning that it had been exploited in the wild as a zero-day and urging immediate patching. The post Critical FortiClient EMS Vulnerability Exploited in Fresh Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Gitea Vulnerability Exposed 30,000 Deployments to Attacks

The security flaw allowed attackers to pull private container images, exposing source code, credentials, and infrastructure. The post Gitea Vulnerability Exposed 30,000 Deployments to Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Vulnerability in Popular Conference Software Granted Attackers a 100% Talk Acceptance Rate

Novee researchers discovered an account takeover vulnerability in the open source CFP management tool Pretalx. The post Vulnerability in Popular Conference Software Granted Attackers a 100% Talk Acceptance Rate appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Gitea Vulnerability Exposes Private Container Images without Authentication

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw in Gitea, an open-source, self-hosted platform for version control, that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to pull private container images from Gitea deployments without requiring an account, password, or other credentials. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-27771 (CVSS score: N/A), affects all versions of Gitea prior to 1.26.2

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CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Zero-Day

Resolved last week, the vulnerability was exploited in the wild as a zero-day to execute scripts with root privileges. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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AppOmni’s Marlin AI Brings Autonomous Investigation to SaaS Security

Marlin AI automatically analyzes SaaS misconfigurations, investigates related activity across enterprise environments, and recommends remediation steps — while stopping short of fully autonomous corrective action. The post AppOmni’s Marlin AI Brings Autonomous Investigation to SaaS Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft Patches SharePoint RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45659 Across Server Versions

Microsoft has rolled out updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could be exploited by bad actors in attacks without requiring any specialized conditions to be met. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, carries a CVSS score of 8.8. It has been assigned an important severity. "Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows

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Hackers Exploited KnowledgeDeliver Zero-Day for Web Shell Deployment

Hardcoded machineKey values in a configuration file enabled ViewState deserialization attacks leading to remote code execution. The post Hackers Exploited KnowledgeDeliver Zero-Day for Web Shell Deployment appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Open Source DockSec Uses AI to Cut Through Vulnerability Noise in Docker Images

DockSec, an OWASP incubator project, correlates findings from multiple container security scanners and uses AI to generate plain-English remediation guidance and exact Dockerfile fixes. The post Open Source DockSec Uses AI to Cut Through Vulnerability Noise in Docker Images appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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CERT-In Mandates 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where "feasible" to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors' abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability

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KnowledgeDeliver LMS Flaw Exploited to Deploy Godzilla and Cobalt Strike

A now-patched high-severity security flaw affecting Digital Knowledge KnowledgeDeliver, a Learning Management System (LMS) popular in Japan, was exploited as a zero-day to deliver the Godzilla web shell and ultimately facilitate the deployment of Cobalt Strike Beacon. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5426 (CVSS score: 7.5), stems from the use of hard-coded ASP.NET machine keys, leading to

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Ghost CMS Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Over 700 Websites

Sites belonging to major universities such as Harvard and Oxford, as well as DuckDuckGo, have been compromised in the attack. The post Ghost CMS Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Over 700 Websites appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Ghost CMS CVE-2026-26980 Exploited to Hijack 700+ Sites for ClickFix Attacks

Threat actors are exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Ghost CMS to inject malicious JavaScript code with an aim to fuel ClickFix attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the activity involves the exploitation of CVE-2026-26980 (CVSS score: 9.4), an SQL injection vulnerability in Ghost's Content API that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary data from the

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‘Underminr’ Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hide Malicious Connections Behind Trusted Domains

The stealthy vulnerability impacts roughly 88 million domains and can be exploited to bypass DNS filtering and hide command-and-control traffic. The post ‘Underminr’ Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hide Malicious Connections Behind Trusted Domains appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin CVE-2026-48172 Exploited to Run Scripts as Root

A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin has come under active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS score: 10.0), relates to an instance of incorrect privilege assignment that an attacker could abuse to run arbitrary scripts with elevated permissions. "Any cPanel user (including an attacker or a compromised account) may

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Drupal Core SQL Injection Bug Actively Exploited, Added to CISA KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Drupal Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9082 (CVSS score: 6.5), an SQL injection vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Drupal Core. "Drupal Core

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First VPN Dismantled in Global Takedown Over Use by 25 Ransomware Groups

Authorities in Europe and North America have announced the dismantling of a criminal virtual private network (VPN) service used by criminal actors to obscure the origins of ransomware attacks, data theft, scanning, and denial-of-service attacks. The disruption of First VPN Service was led by France and the Netherlands, with several other nations supporting the investigation since December

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Drupal Vulnerability in Hacker Crosshairs Shortly After Disclosure

Drupal is warning users that it has already seen attempts to exploit CVE-2026-9082 and security firms are seeing attacks against thousands of websites. The post Drupal Vulnerability in Hacker Crosshairs Shortly After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Making Vulnerable Drivers Exploitable Without Hardware - The BYOVD Perspective

1 Introduction This article provides a technical analysis of how many Windows kernel mode drivers can be interacted with from user mode without the hardware they were developed for. This work was motivated by driver-oriented vulnerability research and the need to evaluate the exploitability of individual findings, which frequently affect code whose reachability is hardware-gated. The