Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2026
CIFSwitch is a 19-year-old Linux logic bug turning forged CIFS auth keys into root. Affects Mint, CentOS, Rocky, Kali, SLES. CIFSwitch stands apart from typical privilege escalation vulnerabilities because of how it was discovered. Asim Manizada, a security engineer at SpaceX, didn’t find it by auditing source code the old-fashioned way. He built an AI-powered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score of 7.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Palo Alto Networks addressed the vulnerability CVE-2026-0257 on May […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2026
CVE-2026-0257 lets attackers forge Palo Alto GlobalProtect auth cookies and bypass VPN login. Exploitation confirmed since May 17. Palo Alto Networks addressed the vulnerability CVE-2026-0257 on May 13. Two weeks later, cybersecurity firm Rapid7 confirmed active exploitation across multiple customer environments. The flaw impacts the GlobalProtect portal and gateway components of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2026
Attackers are texting Signal users posing as Support, asking for backup recovery keys. Once obtained, they can decrypt the entire message history, not just future chats. A phishing campaign is currently targeting Signal users with text messages that impersonate Signal Support and ask them to hand over their backup recovery key. The message looks urgent, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2026
GREYVIBE, a Russia-linked group active since 2025, targets Ukraine with AI-assisted malware and five attack chains. Researchers say it’s part spy op, part crime gang. Security firm WithSecure has been tracking a previously unknown Russian-linked APT group called GREYVIBE since at least August 2025. The group targets Ukraine and Ukrainian-related organizations across military, government, civilian, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2026
A researcher dropped 6 Windows zero-days with no warning. Three are now exploited in the wild. Microsoft is angry. The researcher says Microsoft ignored them first. Over the past month, a researcher going by Chaotic Eclipse, also known as Nightmare-Eclipse, publicly released details of six unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows components including Defender and BitLocker. No […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2026
Threat actors are exploiting a critical FortiClient EMS flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-35616, to deploy malware on unpatched systems. Threat actors are exploiting a critical FortiClient EMS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score of 9.1), that allows remote code execution without authentication. Fortinet released fixes in April after confirming zero-day attacks in the wild and urged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Daemon Tools, TanStack, and Nx Console flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: The first flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8398, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin flaw CVE-2026-48172 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS score of 10.0) affects the LiteSpeed User-End cPanel plugin before version 2.4.5 and allows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2026
Iran’s “hacktivist” group Ababil of Minab, which hit LA Metro and wiped terabytes of data, is forensically linked to Iran’s intelligence service MOIS. In late March, a group calling itself Ababil of Minab posted videos and screenshots online claiming it had broken into the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, wiped hundreds of terabytes of […]
