1. CISA has issued an urgent directive for federal agencies to patch a maximum severity vulnerability in the Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor plugin, which is currently being exploited in the wild (The Hacker News). 2. Microsoft is developing a patch for a zero day privilege escalation vulnerability in the Defender Malware Protection Engine codenamed RoguePlanet (The Hacker News). 3. Threat actors are actively exploiting…
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1. Palo Alto Networks confirmed that CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass vulnerability in PAN-OS GlobalProtect, is under active exploitation in the wild. (The Hacker News) 2. Attackers are actively exploiting the GlobalProtect authentication bypass flaw to establish unauthorized VPN connections to corporate networks. (BleepingComputer) 3. A new local privilege escalation vulnerability named CIFSwitch has been identified in the Linux kernel, allowing attackers to gain root access…
1. A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in NGINX tracked as CVE-2026-42945 is being actively exploited in the wild to cause worker crashes and potential remote code execution (The Hacker News). 2. Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse released a proof of concept for a Windows zero day exploit named MiniPlasma that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched systems (Bleeping Computer). 3. The Tycoon2FA phishing kit…
1. Microsoft Exchange and Windows 11 were successfully compromised by researchers using zero day vulnerabilities during the Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 event (bleepingcomputer.com). 2. The Funnel Builder WordPress plugin is being actively exploited to inject malicious JavaScript into WooCommerce checkout pages to steal credit card data (bleepingcomputer.com). 3. A critical supply chain attack targeting the TanStack library impacted two OpenAI employee devices, prompting immediate security containment…