Exploitation of vulnerabilities has now emerged as the most common way that attackers gain initial access into an organization’s environment, which underlines the ongoing importance of getting the basics right. Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigation Report [1] More CVEs, Less Time The industrialization of vulnerability exploitation is not new; the process-driven approach to vulnerability weaponization […]
Three 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” […]
In 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 […]
! Update May 18, 2026 Three additional CVEs have been discovered in cPanel & WHM that could allow attackers to read files, execute arbitrary code, or escalate privileges on unpatched systems. The issues have been patched in cPanel & WHM versions 11.136.0.9, 11.134.0.25, 11.132.0.31, and WP Squared. Greenbone’s OPENVAS ENTERPRISE FEED provides users with alerts […]
On April 14th and 15th, Fortinet disclosed 27 new vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of its products. The most severe of the new flaws, CVE-2026-39808 (CVSS 9.8) and CVE-2026-39813 (CVSS 9.8) allow unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on the FortiSandbox service. FortiSandbox is Fortinet’s remote sandboxing and malware analysis service, distributed as on premises hardware […]
In early April, Cisco announced two critical-severity CVEs along with additional high and medium-severity vulnerabilities. Collectively, the flaws allow authentication bypass, privilege escalation to an Administrator account, unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as the root user, information disclosure, and Denial of Service conditions. The two critical flaws are CVE-2026-20160 (CVSS 9.8) affecting Cisco Smart Software […]
Fortinet FortiClient EMS faces immediate risk from two critical severity CVEs: CVE-2026-35616 in versions 7.4.5-7.4.6 and CVE-2026-21643 in 7.4.4. CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS 9.8) is an actively exploited vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) 7.4.5 through 7.4.6, published on April 4, 2026. The flaw is an improper access control [CWE-284] that can be exploited for […]
This month exposed new cyber security risks at all levels of enterprise IT infrastructure. New critical vulnerability exposure emerged in perimeter networking gear and core network appliances. Other risks included actively exploited flaws in major browsers, enterprise email clients, agentic workflow platforms, core OS components, and virtually every other aspect of the enterprise IT ecosystem. […]
On March 12th, 2026, Veeam published two security advisories containing 7 critical and one high-severity vulnerability in its Backup & Replication server. The flaws cumulatively affect the version 12 and 13 builds. Although there are no reports of active exploitation or public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits available yet, Veeam has appeared on CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities […]
February 2026’s cyber security headlines were dominated by the sudden emerging risk of CVE-2026-20127, a critical-severity vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. However, this month, other high-risk vulnerabilities impacting widely deployed enterprise software also opened new gaps for attackers to exploit. To effectively defend IT infrastructure, security teams need granular visibility, reliable threat intelligence for prioritization, […]
