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New High-Severity Linux Flaws: Copy Fail, Copy Fail 2, and Dirty Frag Offer Local Privilege Escalation to Root
BlogThree new high-severity local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities affecting Linux were recently disclosed, creating significant global risk. Although user-level access is a prerequisite for their exploitation, the new CVEs allow command execution as the root user and full system takeover. The CVEs are considered reliably exploitable on all major Linux distributions. The name “Copy Fail” […]
April 2026 Threat Report: Mythos or Reality? Time to Find Out
BlogIn April 2026, the cyber security landscape was flooded with news about Anthropic’s new Mythos bug-hunting AI and Project Glasswing. The rose-colored takeaway is that one year from now, software will be free from vulnerabilities because AI will find all of the flaws and vendors will patch. Major software companies will scan all their products […]
Emergency Patch! CVE-2026-41940 in cPanel & WHM Enables Full Server Takeover
BlogPublished on April 29th, 2026, CVE-2026-41940 (CVSS 9.8, EPSS ≥ 95th pctl) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain administrative access to cPanel & WHM, and WP Squared through a missing authentication flaw [CWE-306]. Successful exploitation can grant control over hosted websites, databases, email accounts, the server operating system and configuration, and adjacent websites in shared-hosting […]