Tag: exploit
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January 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Actively exploited zero day needs attention
More priorities: Executives should also prioritize rapid patching and risk reduction efforts this month around the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service Remote Code Execution, Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege, and Windows Virtualization Based Security Enclave Elevation of Privilege flaws, Bicer said, as these vulnerabilities directly enable full system or trust boundary compromise.Strategic focus…
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Microsoft January 2026 Patch Tuesday: 115 Vulnerabilities Fixed
Microsoft kicks off 2026 with 115 security updates, including a fix for an actively exploited zero-day. Protect your Windows and Office systems today. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/microsoft-january-2026-patch-tuesday-vulnerabilities/
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Fortinet fixed two critical flaws in FortiFone and FortiSIEM
Fortinet fixed six security flaws, including two critical bugs in FortiFone and FortiSIEM that attackers could exploit without authentication. Fortinet released patches for six vulnerabilities, including two critical flaws in FortiFone and FortiSIEM that could be exploited without authentication to leak configuration data or enable code execution. The first vulnerabilty, tracked as CVE-2025-64155 (CVSS score…
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Fortinet fixed two critical flaws in FortiFone and FortiSIEM
Fortinet fixed six security flaws, including two critical bugs in FortiFone and FortiSIEM that attackers could exploit without authentication. Fortinet released patches for six vulnerabilities, including two critical flaws in FortiFone and FortiSIEM that could be exploited without authentication to leak configuration data or enable code execution. The first vulnerabilty, tracked as CVE-2025-64155 (CVSS score…
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Fortinet fixed two critical flaws in FortiFone and FortiSIEM
Fortinet fixed six security flaws, including two critical bugs in FortiFone and FortiSIEM that attackers could exploit without authentication. Fortinet released patches for six vulnerabilities, including two critical flaws in FortiFone and FortiSIEM that could be exploited without authentication to leak configuration data or enable code execution. The first vulnerabilty, tracked as CVE-2025-64155 (CVSS score…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, update, vulnerability, windowsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Microsoft Windows vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20805 (CVSS Score of 8.7), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week, Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for January 2026 release…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for January 2026 fixed actively exploited zero-day
Microsoft Patch Tuesday addressed 112 security flaws across Windows, Office, Azure, Edge, and more, including eight critical vulnerabilities, kicking off the new year with a major patch update. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for January 2026 release 112 CVEs affecting Windows, Office, Azure, Edge, SharePoint, SQL Server, SMB, and Windows management services. Including third-party Chromium…
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North Korean Hackers Exploit Code Repositories in “Contagious Interview” Campaign
A newly documented campaign dubbed “Contagious Interview” shows North Korean threat actors weaponising developer tooling and code-repository workflows to steal credentials, cryptocurrency wallets and establish remote access even when victims never “run” the code they are sent. In a recent case analysed by SEAL, a malicious Bitbucket repository (hxxps://bitbucket[.]org/0xmvptechlab/ctrading) was delivered as a take”‘home technical…
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Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware
Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that’s exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers.”Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe…
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Microsoft Fixes 114 Windows Flaws in January 2026 Patch, One Actively Exploited
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its first security update for 2026, addressing 114 security flaws, including one vulnerability that it said has been actively exploited in the wild.Of the 114 flaws, eight are rated Critical, and 106 are rated Important in severity. As many as 58 vulnerabilities have been classified as privilege escalation, followed by…
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Critical Node.js Vulnerability Can Cause Server Crashes via async_hooks Stack Overflow
Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting “virtually every production Node.js app” that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.”Node.js/V8 makes a best-effort attempt to recover from stack space exhaustion with a catchable error, which frameworks have come to rely on for service availability,” Node.js’s…
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Identity Under Siege: What the Salt Typhoon Campaign Reveals About Trusted Access Risks
A recent disclosure confirms that email accounts belonging to U.S. congressional staff were compromised as part of the Salt Typhoon cyber-espionage campaign, targeting personnel supporting key House committees and exploiting trusted identities rather than software vulnerabilities, according to TechRadar. While no immediate operational disruption was publicly reported, the incident sends a clear message: identity systems…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 112 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day
Researchers said the information disclosure zero-day exposes sensitive information that attackers can use to undermine defenses and make other exploits more reliable. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-january-2026/
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Microsoft Starts 2026 With a Bang: A Freshly Exploited Zero-Day
The vendor’s first Patch Tuesday of the year also contains fixes for 112 CVEs, nearly double the amount from last month. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsofts-starts-2026-bang-zero-day
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Cybersecurity risk will accelerate this year, fueled in part by AI, says World Economic Forum
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, ciso, control, country, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, exploit, finance, framework, fraud, governance, healthcare, incident, infrastructure, international, middle-east, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAI is anticipated to be the most significant driver of change in cybersecurity in 2026, according to 94% of survey respondents;87% of respondents said AI-related vulnerabilities had increased in the past year. Other cyber risks that had increased were (in order) cyber-enabled fraud and phishing, supply chain disruption, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities;confidence in national cyber…
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Microsoft January 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 114 flaws
Today is Microsoft’s January 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 114 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-january-2026-patch-tuesday-fixes-3-zero-days-114-flaws/
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Threat Actors Exploit RMM Tools Through Weaponized PDF Files
Threat actors are exploiting legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools as part of a sophisticated campaign distributing weaponized PDF files to unsuspecting users. AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) recently uncovered multiple attack chains utilizing Syncro, SuperOps, NinjaOne, and ScreenConnect tools commonly used by managed service providers and IT teams for legitimate system administration. The…
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CISA Flags Actively Exploited Gogs Vulnerability With No Patch
A high-severity security flaw in the Gogs Git service is being actively exploited, leading to remote code execution First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisa-flags-exploited-gogs-flaw-no/
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Can You Afford the Total Cost of Free Java?
Before running Java on a free JVM, assess the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited and the consequences of an exploit. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/can-you-afford-the-total-cost-of-free-java/
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ServiceNow patches critical AI platform flaw that could allow user impersonation
The company says it has no evidence the bug was exploited before October’s patch, but researchers say AI agent configuration can still enable prompt-injection style abuse. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/servicenow-fixes-critical-ai-vulnerability-cve-2025-12420/
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Dutch court convicts hacker who exploited port networks for drug trafficking
Dutch appeals court jails a 44-year-old hacker for 7 years for hacking port systems to help smuggle cocaine through European logistics hubs. A Dutch appeals court sentenced a 44-year-old hacker to seven years in prison for hacking port systems to help smuggle cocaine through European logistics hubs into the Netherlands. The appeals court reduced the…
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Phishing Scams Exploit Browserthe-Browser Attacks to Steal Facebook Passwords
Cybersecurity researchers issue warning over a surge in attacks designed to trick Facebook users into handing over login credentials First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/phishing-scams-exploit-browser/
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High-severity bug in Broadcom software enables easy WiFi denial-of-service
Tags: access, attack, business, encryption, exploit, firmware, flaw, monitoring, network, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, vulnerability, wifiChipset-level bugs linger: Researchers said the vulnerability highlights why protocol-stack implementation remains open to serious flaws. “This attack is both easy to execute and highly disruptive, underscoring that even mature and widely deployed network technologies can still yield new and serious attack vectors,” said Saumitra Das, vice president of engineering at Qualys. “Because the attack…
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Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list
Git server flaw that attackers have been abusing for months has now caught the attention of US cyber cops First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/01/13/cisa_gogs_exploit/
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For application security: SCA, SAST, DAST and MAST. What next?
Tags: advisory, ai, application-security, automation, best-practice, business, cisa, cisco, cloud, compliance, container, control, cve, data, exploit, flaw, framework, gartner, government, guide, ibm, incident response, infrastructure, injection, kubernetes, least-privilege, ml, mobile, network, nist, resilience, risk, sbom, service, software, sql, supply-chain, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, waf<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024" alt="Chart: Posture, provenance and proof." class="wp-image-4115680" srcset="https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?quality=50&strip=all 1430w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=300%2C168&quality=50&strip=all 300w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=768%2C431&quality=50&strip=all 768w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&quality=50&strip=all 1024w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=1240%2C697&quality=50&strip=all 1240w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=150%2C84&quality=50&strip=all 150w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=854%2C480&quality=50&strip=all 854w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=640%2C360&quality=50&strip=all 640w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=444%2C250&quality=50&strip=all 444w” width=”1024″ height=”575″ sizes=”auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px” /> Sunil GentyalaOver the past year the community has admitted the obvious: the battleground is the software supply chain and…
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What Should We Learn From How Attackers Leveraged AI in 2025?
Old Playbook, New Scale: While defenders are chasing trends, attackers are optimizing the basicsThe security industry loves talking about “new” threats. AI-powered attacks. Quantum-resistant encryption. Zero-trust architectures. But looking around, it seems like the most effective attacks in 2025 are pretty much the same as they were in 2015. Attackers are exploiting the same entry…