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Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Vulnerabilities & Exploits

CVEs, zero-days, patching and exploited weaknesses.

ai human psychologyJun 29, 20264 min

Your Eyes Lie to You in Court — How Deepfakes Exploit the Brain's Trust in What It Sees

AI-generated video and audio are shattering the courtroom assumption that 'seeing is believing.' Psychology explains why our brains are hardwired to trust visual evidence — and how deepfakes turn that evolutionary advantage into a legal vulnerability.

cybersecurityJun 29, 20264 min

CISA's BOD 26-04: The Three-Day Patch Mandate That Changes Federal Cybersecurity

CISA has revamped its federal patching mandate with a risk-matrix approach that prioritizes high-risk vulnerabilities, fundamentally changing how federal agencies approach security in an AI-driven threat landscape.

software vulnerabilities patch managementJun 29, 20265 min

F5’s Emergency Patch for NGINX HTTP/3 Flaws Isn’t Just a Patch — It’s a Warning

Analysis of the out-of-band security patches released by F5 to address two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-24989 and CVE-2024-24990) in NGINX's HTTP/3 implementation, including affected versions, exploitation risks, and mitigation strategies.

cloud security incidentsJun 29, 20265 min

Estrogen Loss Collapses the Brain’s Structural Scaffold, Explaining Women’s Alzheimer’s Vulnerability

New research reveals that post-menopausal estrogen decline triggers a selective degradation of the extracellular matrix in the female hippocampus, dismantling the critical support network for memory cells — a mechanism absent in men.

ai security exploits use after free kernel evasionJun 29, 20264 min

One Character, One Root: How a Negation Bug Broke Linux Sandboxing

A single flipped bit in nf_tables lets attackers escape containers and gain root—here’s how it works, why it slipped through, and why your Kubernetes clusters are still at risk.

threat actor campaigns exploitationJun 29, 20265 min

WinRAR’s Forgotten Door: How Russian Actors Turned a Year-Old Patch Into a Backdoor

Shadow-Earth-066 and Earth Dahu exploit CVE-2025-8088 in Ukraine—and beyond—because organizations still haven’t found WinRAR on their networks. It’s not the flaw that’s dangerous; it’s the silence.

ai cognitive architecturesJun 29, 20264 min

The Stale Mirror: How AI Memory Exploits a Century-Old Psychology Trick

A 1948 psychology experiment reveals why AI memory feels personal. For children still forming their identity, an outdated profile can lock them into a version of themselves that no longer exists.

cybersecurityJun 28, 20263 min

Your Incident Response Is a Patchwork. Here’s Why It’s Failing.

Network incident response is slowed by context-switching across monitoring, ticketing, identity, and communication tools. Learn how intelligent workflow automation cuts MTTR by connecting your existing stack.

browser security zero day exploitsJun 27, 20263 min

Chrome’s Fifth Zero-Day This Year Isn’t an Accident—It’s a Warning

Google patched CVE-2026-11645, a V8 engine flaw exploited in the wild—the fifth zero-day of 2026. This isn’t chaos. It’s a strategic escalation.

ai agent security safetyJun 27, 20264 min

The One-Character Hack That Took Down AI Agents: BadHost CVE-2026-48710 Explained

BadHost (CVE-2026-48710) is a Starlette host header flaw that lets attackers bypass path-based authentication in FastAPI, vLLM, LiteLLM, and AI agent servers. Here's how to detect it and patch it.

social engineering phishingJun 26, 20264 min

Shopify Shop App Exploited to Push Callback Phishing Attacks

Threat actors are abusing the popular Shop order-tracking app by inserting fake purchase receipts, tricking users into calling fraudulent support lines to steal sensitive data and credentials.

cyber threat intelligenceJun 22, 20264 min

Disguising Command-and-Control: How DragonForce Exploits Microsoft Teams Relays

An investigation into the techniques used by the DragonForce ransomware gang, specifically their utilization of a custom 'Backdoor.Turn' malware to tunnel malicious traffic through Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. Includes verified attack chain details, BYOVD evasion techniques, and Backdoor.Turn capabilities from Symantec research.