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New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation

New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation 2026-05-14 at 16:44 By Eduard Kovacs The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46300, is similar to the recently disclosed exploits named Dirty Frag and Copy Fail. The post New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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Windows Zero-Days Expose BitLocker Bypasses And CTFMON Privilege Escalation

Windows Zero-Days Expose BitLocker Bypasses And CTFMON Privilege Escalation 2026-05-14 at 13:04 By An anonymous cybersecurity researcher who disclosed three Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities has returned with two more zero-days involving a BitLocker bypass and a privilege escalation impacting Windows Collaborative Translation Framework (CTFMON). The security defects have been codenamed YellowKey and GreenPlasma, respectively, by the

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Why Australian Dark Web Data Is Now Being Sold in Bundles — and What It Means for Organizational Exposure in 2026

Why Australian Dark Web Data Is Now Being Sold in Bundles — and What It Means for Organizational Exposure in 2026 2026-05-14 at 12:48 By Ashish Khaitan In 2026, opportunistic assaults and isolated breaches will no longer characterize Australia’s cyber risk environment. Industrialized data theft, in which stolen data is packaged, repackaged, and marketed on

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AI cyber capability is speeding past earlier projections

AI cyber capability is speeding past earlier projections 2026-05-14 at 12:48 By Sinisa Markovic AI cyber capability is improving faster than expected, with newer models surpassing earlier projections, according to the UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI). AISI measures AI cyber capability using “time horizon benchmarks”, which estimate how long AI systems can complete cybersecurity

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Hackers Targeted PraisonAI Vulnerability Hours After Disclosure

Hackers Targeted PraisonAI Vulnerability Hours After Disclosure 2026-05-14 at 12:48 By Ionut Arghire The first exploitation attempts were observed less than four hours after the authentication bypass was publicly disclosed. The post Hackers Targeted PraisonAI Vulnerability Hours After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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High-Severity Vulnerability Patched in VMware Fusion

High-Severity Vulnerability Patched in VMware Fusion 2026-05-14 at 12:48 By Eduard Kovacs The patch was announced as Broadcom is attending the Pwn2Own hacking competition in Berlin this week. The post High-Severity Vulnerability Patched in VMware Fusion appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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CERN’s open source KiCad library gives the world 17,000 circuit board components

CERN’s open source KiCad library gives the world 17,000 circuit board components 2026-05-14 at 11:16 By Sinisa Markovic CERN has released its complete KiCad component library under an open source license, making it available to hardware designers anywhere in the world. The library, maintained by CERN’s Design Office, contains more than 17,000 electronic components in

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Researcher Drops YellowKey, GreenPlasma Windows Zero-Days

Researcher Drops YellowKey, GreenPlasma Windows Zero-Days 2026-05-14 at 11:16 By Ionut Arghire YellowKey is a BitLocker bypass that requires physical access. GreenPlasma enables elevation of privileges to System. The post Researcher Drops YellowKey, GreenPlasma Windows Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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New Fragnesia Linux Kernel LPE Grants Root Access via Page Cache Corruption

New Fragnesia Linux Kernel LPE Grants Root Access via Page Cache Corruption 2026-05-14 at 11:15 By Details have emerged about a new variant of the recent Dirty Frag Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability that allows local attackers to gain root access, making it the third such bug to be identified in the kernel within

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18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE

18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE 2026-05-14 at 10:40 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, including a critical flaw that remained undetected for 18 years. The vulnerability, discovered by depthfirst, is a heap buffer overflow issue impacting ngx_http_rewrite_module (CVE-2026-42945, CVSS v4 score: 9.2) that could

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Vector embedding security gap exposes enterprise AI pipelines

Vector embedding security gap exposes enterprise AI pipelines 2026-05-14 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Enterprise adoption of retrieval-augmented generation has moved sensitive corporate content into a new storage format that existing security tools cannot inspect. Companies deploying internal AI assistants convert documents into high-dimensional numerical vectors and ship them to embedding services and vector databases

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Closing the AI governance gap in your enterprise

Closing the AI governance gap in your enterprise 2026-05-14 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Casey Bleeker, CEO at SurePath AI, talks about the AI governance gap that exists in almost every organization. Drawing from three years of conversations with IT, business, and security leaders, Casey explains why AI

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Over 70% of organizations hit by identity breaches

Over 70% of organizations hit by identity breaches 2026-05-14 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Attackers rely on stolen credentials, compromised service accounts, and social engineering attacks targeting employees, according to Sophos’ The State of Identity Security 2026 survey. What do you estimate to be the overall cost to your organization to rectify the identity breach?

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Machine identities outnumber humans 109 to 1

Machine identities outnumber humans 109 to 1 2026-05-14 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Organizations manage an average of 109 machine identities for every human identity. AI agents account for a growing share of those identities, with companies expecting AI agent growth of 85% over the next 12 months. Machine identities are projected to increase by

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Judge says Elon Musk’s $1.5M settlement with SEC over Twitter disclosures raises ‘red flags’

Judge says Elon Musk’s $1.5M settlement with SEC over Twitter disclosures raises ‘red flags’ 2026-05-14 at 03:45 By Reuters Judge Sooknanan also noted that SEC lawyers at a prior hearing to discuss the case had appeared surprised when lawyers for Musk revealed that they had been in settlement talks with the agency. This article is

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Analyzing TeamPCP’s Supply Chain Attacks: Checkmarx KICS and elementary-data in CI/CD Credential Theft

Analyzing TeamPCP’s Supply Chain Attacks: Checkmarx KICS and elementary-data in CI/CD Credential Theft 2026-05-14 at 03:45 By Our research examines the April 22 Checkmarx KICS and April 24 elementary-data incidents as part of a broader TeamPCP supply chain campaign. Across both cases, the actor abused trusted CI/CD and release workflows to steal credentials at scale.

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Foxconn Confirms North American Factories Hit by Cyberattack

Foxconn Confirms North American Factories Hit by Cyberattack 2026-05-14 at 01:32 By Eduard Kovacs The Nitrogen ransomware group claims to have hacked the company’s systems, stealing 8TB of data, including confidential documents. The post Foxconn Confirms North American Factories Hit by Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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