Jewelbug, a China-linked hack-for-hire group, breached 15 government ministries at once by inserting one script into a shared ...

When finding vulnerabilities and generating targeted exploits is a 21-minute job that costs just $3.61, it’s time to scrap outdated best practices and ‘hand-to-hand combat with attackers,’ warns ...

Vulnerabilities can lurk within production code for years or decades — and AI tools have opened a gateway to a glut of new long-hidden discoveries.

A top Microsoft executive says a shift toward memory safety and other preventative measures can limit the ability to exploit ...

A nine-year-old race condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel's XFS filesystem, tracked as CVE-2026-64600, allows local attackers to overwrite protected files and gain root privileges. Dubbed ...

The 16-year-old Januscape flaw affects Linux’s KVM hypervisor, allowing attackers to escape virtual machines and potentially execute code on the underlying host. A newly disclosed Linux kernel ...

Offensive Security shipped Kali Linux 2026.2 on Monday, June 29, delivering the most technically disciplined point release the project has produced in recent memory. The update hands penetration ...

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Phoronix Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that ...

Patched in April, the underlying vulnerability allows local attackers to elevate their privileges to root. Proof-of-concept (PoC) code is now available for another Linux kernel vulnerability that ...

A recently patched local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's rxgk module now has a proof-of-concept exploit that allows attackers to gain root access on some Linux systems. Named ...

A newly disclosed Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability known as “Dirty Frag” enables escalation from an unprivileged user to root through vulnerable kernel networking and memory-fragment ...