Tag: vulnerability
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Adaptive, Agentic AI Worms Loom as Next Enterprise Threat
AI worms, or viruses with wings and brains, adapt to new environments, seek out vulnerabilities, and will likely strike within a year, researchers say. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/adaptive-agentic-ai-worms-enterprise-cyber-threat
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New Gafgyt Variant Targets Linux Systems With Modular Spread Tactics
A new Gafgyt-family botnet, tracked as C0XMO, marks a notable technical shift in IoT malware design: the separation of scanning and propagation into distinct components and multi-architecture payloads that maximize reach across heterogeneous Linux devices. The operator delivered C0XMO by exploiting CVE-2021-27137 a stack buffer overflow in the UPnP SSDP parser of vulnerable DD-WRT firmware…
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Cisco SD-WAN 0-day exploited, no patch available (CVE-2026-20245)
A 0-day privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-20245) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has yet to be patched by Cisco is being leveraged by attackers. >>To … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/05/cisco-sd-wan-cve-2026-20245-0-day-exploited/
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Hackers Exploit Critical Everest Forms Pro WordPress Plugin Flaw to Take Over Sites
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in Everest Forms Pro, a WordPress plugin with about 4,000 active installations, to execute arbitrary code, leading to a complete site compromise.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3300 (CVSS score: 9.8), a remote code execution bug impacting all versions of the plugin up to, and including, 1.9.12.…
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Hackers Exploit Critical Everest Forms Pro WordPress Plugin Flaw to Take Over Sites
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in Everest Forms Pro, a WordPress plugin with about 4,000 active installations, to execute arbitrary code, leading to a complete site compromise.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3300 (CVSS score: 9.8), a remote code execution bug impacting all versions of the plugin up to, and including, 1.9.12.…
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Fake Context Alignment: The Attack That Made Gemini Obey Strangers Through Your Notifications
SafeBreach tricked Gemini into obeying attackers via WhatsApp notifications, using hidden foreign-language text to bypass Google’s defenses and control smart home devices. SafeBreach Labs researcher Or Yair spent months trying to break Google’s Gemini voice assistant after Google patched the vulnerabilities he found in his previous research. The new attack class he developed, named Fake…
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CISA Issues Alert on Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Security Flaw
Tags: authentication, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, linux, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a fresh alert warning organizations about the active exploitation of a Linux kernel vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-0492. The flaw, categorized as an improper authentication issue, affects Linux systems using the cgroups v1 release_agent feature and can allow attackers to escalate privileges within compromised environments. Linux…
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June 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Where are the CVEs?
My forecast from last month was only partly right. After the Anthropic Mythos announcements and the deluge of newly discovered vulnerabilities from vendors like Mozilla, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/05/june-2026-patch-tuesday-forecast/
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Cisco SD-WAN Security Flaw Actively Exploited for Root-Level Command Execution
Cisco has disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in its Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that is actively being exploited in the wild, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root-level privileges on affected systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 and is caused by improper input validation (CWE-116) within the command-line interface of…
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Microsoft Edge Vulnerability Lets Remote Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code
Microsoft has disclosed three critical vulnerabilities in its Edge browser, all discovered during the Pwn2Own competition and reported by security researcher Orange Tsai of DEVCORE Research Team. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-45492, CVE-2026-45494, and CVE-2026-45495, were publicly disclosed on June 4, 2026, with patches already issued by Microsoft. Overview of the Vulnerability CVE-2026-45492 Origin […]…
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Microsoft Edge Vulnerability Lets Remote Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code
Microsoft has disclosed three critical vulnerabilities in its Edge browser, all discovered during the Pwn2Own competition and reported by security researcher Orange Tsai of DEVCORE Research Team. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-45492, CVE-2026-45494, and CVE-2026-45495, were publicly disclosed on June 4, 2026, with patches already issued by Microsoft. Overview of the Vulnerability CVE-2026-45492 Origin […]…
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U.S. CISA adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-45247 (CVSS ver 4.0 score of 9.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The CVE-2026-45247 flaw is a…
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Everest Forms Pro Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution on WordPress Sites
Critical Everest Forms Pro RCE flaw exploited to create rogue WordPress admin accounts First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/everest-forms-pro-rce-actively/
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Claude Code GitHub Action Flaw Let One Malicious Issue Hijack Repositories
A security researcher found a flaw in Anthropic’s Claude Code GitHub Action that let an attacker take over vulnerable public repositories running it, with nothing more than a single opened GitHub issue. Because Anthropic’s own action repo used the same workflow, a working attack could have pushed malicious code into the action itself and onto…
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Hackers Are After the Gaps in Your Vulnerability Program: Here’s Their Playbook
Threat actors are actively teaching newcomers how to find, exploit, and profit from vulnerable systems. Flare explores what a popular underground hacking tutorial reveals about modern attacker workflows. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-are-after-the-gaps-in-your-vulnerability-program-heres-their-playbook/
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Critical Cisco Unified CM Bug Patched as Public Exploit Code Emerges
Cisco patched a critical Unified CM flaw with public PoC code that allows unauthenticated attackers to launch SSRF attacks remotely. Cisco has addressed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20230, affecting Unified CM and Unified CM SME. The flaw, caused by improper validation of certain HTTP requests, allows a remote attacker without authentication to perform server-side…
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Infosecurity Europe: Mythos Outperforms GPT5.5 on Google Chrome Vulnerability Exploits, Says New Benchmark
A Bugcrowd researcher has unveiled ExploitBench, an independent benchmark of AI models for vulnerability exploitation First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/mythos-gpt-chrome-exploits/
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Comodo Internet Security 0-Day Flaw Triggers Windows System Crashes
A remotely exploitable zero-day vulnerability in Comodo Internet Security’s kernel-level firewall driver allows attackers to crash Windows systems with a single IPv6 packet, and the vendor has yet to respond. Security researcher Marcus Hutchins publicly disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in Comodo Internet Security on June 3, 2026, after multiple attempts to reach the vendor…
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Gamaredon Uses WinRAR Vulnerability to Launch Modular Spy Campaign on Ukrainian Targets
Gamaredon exploits a WinRAR flaw to drop modular, nearly fileless malware on Ukrainian targets, hiding payloads in Windows streams and resolving C2s via Telegram. Sekoia’s Threat Detection & Research team dropped a YARA rule in late December 2025 to hunt for new initial access vectors, and by January 2026 it had already generated a dozen…
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Gamaredon Uses WinRAR Vulnerability to Launch Modular Spy Campaign on Ukrainian Targets
Gamaredon exploits a WinRAR flaw to drop modular, nearly fileless malware on Ukrainian targets, hiding payloads in Windows streams and resolving C2s via Telegram. Sekoia’s Threat Detection & Research team dropped a YARA rule in late December 2025 to hunt for new initial access vectors, and by January 2026 it had already generated a dozen…
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PoC Exploit Released for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Security Vulnerability
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a critical server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability impacting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified CM Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), increasing the likelihood of active exploitation in enterprise environments. Cisco Unified Manager Security Vulnerability Tracked as CVE-2026-20230 and detailed in Cisco advisory cisco-sa-cucm-ssrf-cXPnHcW, the…
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CISA Adds Exploited Magento RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45247 to KEV Catalog
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical flaw impacting Mirasvit Cache Warmer, a popular Magento full-page cache extension, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45247 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of deserialization of untrusted First seen…
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From critical to controlled: Cutting vulnerabilities in a live manufacturing environment
A vulnerability scanner flags a critical CVSS 10 vulnerability on an industrial asset. The report lands in the boss’ inbox and now he wants to know why we’re sitting on a … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/04/ot-vulnerability-management-process/
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CISA Alerts Users to Actively Exploited Android Framework Security Vulnerability
CISA has issued an urgent alert warning of an actively exploited Android Framework vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-48595, and has added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The agency has set a strict remediation deadline of June 5, 2026, urging organizations to take immediate action to mitigate potential risks associated with this flaw. Android…
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Acer Confirms Patch in Progress for Wave 7 Router 0-Day Flaw
Acer has confirmed that it is actively developing a firmware patch to address critical zero-day vulnerabilities affecting its Wave 7 routers, following responsible disclosure by an independent security researcher. According to an official advisory published on June 2, 2026, the vulnerabilities impact Acer Wave 7 devices running firmware version T7c_GBL_1.01.000055 or earlier. The flaws expose…
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Hackers Exploit Google Gemini Flaw Using Malicious Messages from WhatsApp, Slack, and SMS
Hackers are exploiting a newly discovered flaw in Google’s Gemini voice assistant by sending malicious messages via popular platforms such as WhatsApp, Slack, Signal, Instagram, Messenger, and SMS. The vulnerability, uncovered by SafeBreach Labs, shows how attackers can secretly inject instructions into Gemini’s conversation context via instant message notifications. This lets them manipulate the assistant…
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CISA directive for AI executive order to be released this week, Andersen says
The binding operational directive will focus in part on “vulnerability alleviation and vulnerability management,” Andersen said in remarks delivered at the TechNet Cyber conference in Baltimore. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cisa-directive-for-ai-exec-order-release
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Acer addresses critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Wave 7 routers
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/acer-addresses-critical-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-wave-7-routers
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CISA adds Android and Linux kernel flaws to exploited vulnerabilities catalog
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/cisa-adds-android-and-linux-kernel-flaws-to-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
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CISA Flags 2-Year-Old Oracle WebLogic Vulnerability as Actively Exploited
CISA added Oracle WebLogic flaw CVE-2024-21182 to its KEV catalog, giving federal agencies until June 4 to patch exposed servers. The post CISA Flags 2-Year-Old Oracle WebLogic Vulnerability as Actively Exploited appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-cisa-oracle-weblogic-vulnerability-exploited/