Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs
RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS…
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Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Vulnerability / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has…
GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier
Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+…
Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user…
Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per…
Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA
Swati KhandelwalJul 22, 2026Law Enforcement / Cybercrime German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as…
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities
Ravie LakshmananJul 21, 2026Software Security / Artificial Intelligence Google’s DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence (AI)…
AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code
Hidden text on a web page was enough to make Kiro, AWS’s agentic coding IDE, rewrite its own configuration file and run an attacker’s code…
Apple Fixes Hide My Email Bug That Exposed Real Addresses in Mail Logs
Ravie LakshmananJul 21, 2026Vulnerability / Cloud Security Apple has moved to address a security flaw in its Hide My Email service that enabled users’ real…
Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access
Ravie LakshmananJul 21, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point…
WordPress wp2shell Exploitation Grows as Public Exploit Fuels Mass Scanning
Attackers have begun to exploit two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress that, when combined together, enable unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and complete compromise of vulnerable…
Russian Intelligence Hacks IP Cameras to Spy on Military Logistics Across NATO States and Ukraine
At least one Russian intelligence service is systematically hijacking internet-connected security cameras across Europe and Ukraine, using the feeds to watch military transport routes, weapons…