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Unit 42 is aware of two critical vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, referred to as PHP2Shell. Both are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities rated as 9.2 (CVSS 4.0). Researchers encourage reviewing the PHP Group’s security advisory and patching guidance. Read More …
A state-aligned cyber group in Asia compromised government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries in an ongoing espionage campaign, according to security researchers. In total, the crew compromised at least 70 organizations, and maintained access to several of these Read More …
This is a follow-up analysis to a previous blog about a zero day exploit where the FortiGuard Incident Response (FGIR) team examined how remote attackers exploited multiple vulnerabilities in an appliance to gain control of a customer’s system. At the Read More …
This week, the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team investigated a sample of SteelFox malware. This is bundled with “software activators” for JetBrains and Foxit PDF readers. During installation, they run as a service and use vulnerable signed Windows drivers Read More …
The Spectre vulnerability that has haunted hardware and software makers since 2018 continues to defy efforts to bury it. On Thursday, Eduardo (sirdarckcat) Vela Nava, from Google’s product security response team, disclosed a Spectre-related flaw in version 6.2 of the Read More …
For a fair amount of time, null-deref bugs were a highly exploitable kernel bug class. Back when the kernel was able to access userland memory without restriction, and userland programs were still able to map the zero page, there were Read More …
Windows kernel threats have long been favored by malicious actors because it can allow them to obtain high-privileged access and detection evasion capabilities. These hard-to-banish threats are still crucial components in malicious campaigns’ kill chains to this day. In fact, Read More …
Taiwanese hardware vendor QNAP warns most of its Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are impacted by a high severity Linux vulnerability dubbed ‘Dirty Pipe’ that allows attackers with local access to gain root privileges. The ‘Dirty Pipe’ security bug affects Read More …
A code execution vulnerability has been patched in the TIPC module of the Linux Kernel. The Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC) module has been designed to facilitate intra-cluster communication across Ethernet or UDP connections and is capable of service addressing, Read More …
Details tied to a stunning iPhone vulnerability were disclosed by noted Google Project Zero researcher Ian Beer. Apple patched the vulnerability earlier this year. But few details, until now, were known about the bug that could have allowed a threat Read More …