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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

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

Meta on Monday said it detected and blocked spear-phishing attempts linked to Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group.

In addition, the tech giant said it’s filing a federal court contempt order against the company for violating a permanent injunction that barred it from targeting WhatsApp and its users.

“They tried to trick people into clicking on malicious links to drive them to external websites

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

Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine.

Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every polished message adds another case for Tier 1 to review, another link to inspect, and another alert that cannot be dismissed at a glance.

As the queue grows, a credential theft attempt or malware delivery can easily

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,

A China-nexus cyber espionage group has been observed deploying a BSD variant of a known backdoor called BRICKSTORM, as well as two other malware families codenamed PLENET (aka GRIMBOLT) and AGENTPSD to target Linux systems.

The activity has been attributed by Volexity to a threat cluster it tracks as VerdantBamboo, which it said overlaps with hacking groups known as Clay Typhoon (Microsoft),

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026.

The activity has been attributed by Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat actor dubbed UNC3753, which is also known as

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats.

“When automatic updates are enabled, new versions are auto-updated two hours after they are published, adding an extra layer of protection

OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks.

The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and