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PAN-OS RCE Exploit Under Active Use Enabling Root Access and Espionage

PAN-OS RCE Exploit Under Active Use Enabling Root Access and Espionage

Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that threat actors may have attempted to unsuccessfully exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw as early as April 9, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-0300 (CVSS score: 9.3/8.7), a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal service of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software that could allow an unauthenticated attacker

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Linux Kernel Dirty Frag LPE Exploit Enables Root Access Across Major Distributions

Linux Kernel Dirty Frag LPE Exploit Enables Root Access Across Major Distributions

Details have emerged about a new, unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting the Linux kernel. Dubbed Dirty Frag, it has been described as a successor to Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431, CVSS score: 7.8), a recently disclosed LPE flaw impacting the Linux kernel that has since come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability was reported to Linux kernel maintainers

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The Back Door Attackers Know About — and Most Security Teams Still Haven’t Closed

The Back Door Attackers Know About — and Most Security Teams Still Haven’t Closed

Every AI tool, workflow automation, and productivity app your employees connected to Google or Microsoft this year left something behind: a persistent OAuth token with no expiration date, no automatic cleanup, and in most organizations, no one watching it. Your perimeter controls don’t see it. Your MFA doesn’t stop it. And when an attacker gets

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30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign

30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign

A newly discovered Vietnamese-linked operation has been observed using a Google AppSheet as a “phishing relay” to distribute phishing emails with an aim to compromise Facebook accounts. The activity has been codenamed AccountDumpling by Guardio, with the scheme selling the stolen accounts back through an illicit storefront run by the threat actors. In all, roughly 30,000 Facebook

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