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Microsoft Patches Record 206 Flaws, Including Three Zero-Days and Critical RCE Bugs

Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for a record 206 security vulnerabilities impacting its software portfolio, including three flaws that have been publicly disclosed at the time of release. Of the 206 flaws, 39 are rated Critical, and 167 are rated Important in severity. This includes 63 privilege escalation, 56 remote code execution, 30 information disclosure, 27 spoofing, 20 security

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No Patch Planned for Exploited Arista EOS Vulnerability

Organizations are advised to apply vendor-supplied mitigations or discontinue the vulnerable devices. The post No Patch Planned for Exploited Arista EOS Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft Defender RoguePlanet Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Access on Updated Windows

The anonymous security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for yet another Microsoft Defender zero-day named RoguePlanet. "The exploit is a race condition, so it's a hit or miss," the researcher, who published the exploit under a new GitHub account, "MSNightmare" said. "I have managed to get a 100% success rate on

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OpenSSL Patches High-Severity Vulnerability Found With AI

A total of 18 vulnerabilities have been patched in the latest OpenSSL releases, including many that were potentially discovered by AI. The post OpenSSL Patches High-Severity Vulnerability Found With AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Veeam Backup & Replication RCE Flaw Lets Domain Users Run Remote Code

Veeam has released security patches to address a critical flaw in its Backup & Replication software that could result in remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-44963, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. "A vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) on the Backup Server by an authenticated domain user," Veeam said in a Tuesday advisory. It

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WinRAR Flaw Exploited by Russia-Aligned Groups to Deploy Stealers in Ukraine

Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released. The activity has been attributed by Trend Micro to Earth Dahu (aka Gamaredon) and SHADOW-EARTH-066 (aka UAC-0226). It involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-8088, a path traversal flaw that allows an

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Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild - Patch Now

Google has released security updates to address 74 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11645 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as an out-of-bounds memory access in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Out-of-bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.103

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Will AI Kill the Bug Bounty Industry?

Anthropic's Mythos is accelerating vulnerability discovery to machine speed, forcing the bug bounty industry and offensive security teams to adapt to a future where finding flaws is no longer the hard part. The post Will AI Kill the Bug Bounty Industry? appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Check Point VPN Zero-Day Exploited in Qilin Ransomware Attacks

The authentication bypass vulnerability allows attackers to establish VPN connections without a valid password. The post Check Point VPN Zero-Day Exploited in Qilin Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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LiteLLM Flaw CVE-2026-42271 Exploited in the Wild, Chains to Unauthenticated RCE

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity flaw impacting BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42271 (CVSS score: 8.7), is a command injection vulnerability that could allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands on the

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Google Patches 5th Chrome Zero-Day Exploited in 2026

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-11645 and it was reported in late April by an anonymous researcher. The post Google Patches 5th Chrome Zero-Day Exploited in 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public

Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and break out of a container. The flaw, CVE-2026-23111, sits in the kernel's nf_tables packet-filtering code and was patched upstream on February 5, 2026. Exodus Intelligence released its full technical walkthrough on June 8, and it is not even

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Critical Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited to Bypass Passwords in IKEv1 Setups

Check Point has warned of active exploitation of a critical vulnerability impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments that are configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50751 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of a logic flow weakness in certificate validation that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass user

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks, Android Zero-Day, GitHub Worm and More

Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn't. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic tricks still worked. A chatbot got fooled. A bot token got leaked inside the malware. The same old mistakes showed up again. And while everyone chased the loud stuff, quieter attackers sat in inboxes for months, reading mail and

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Everest Forms Vulnerability Exploited to Hack WordPress Sites

The flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely and has been exploited in the wild for two months. The post Everest Forms Vulnerability Exploited to Hack WordPress Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Hardest Fork

Mythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it's a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I've seen the findings, and they're bad. These aren't "whoops, this line right here is wrong, and that's RCE." They're novel combinations of a few dozen issues out of thousands of things every SAST scanner already finds, chained together into something much worse. It's real creativity,

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SolarWinds Serv-U Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the flaw via specially crafted POST requests that crash the Serv-U service. The post SolarWinds Serv-U Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Emphere Raises $2.1 Million for AI-Powered Vulnerability Remediation

Emphere’s solution delivers AI-driven remediation to software companies to speed up releases. The post Emphere Raises $2.1 Million for AI-Powered Vulnerability Remediation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a denial-of-service (DoS) bug that causes the service to crash

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AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs

Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release. Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI.