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Google told a security researcher his bug was a nice catch, lined up his payout, then eleven days later called it harmless and refused to pay a cent. The flaw …
Nightmare-Eclipse is back, with a new exploit called RoguePlanet. Windows 10 and 11 have a new zero-day that lets a user with no rights take complete control of …
One extra character in the Linux kernel hands a normal user root. A single ! that does not belong inside nftables, the firewall built into Debian and Ubuntu by …
GhostTree makes Windows Defender stop scanning. Two lines of code, no admin rights, and malware sitting right next to it goes completely undetected. A Varonis …
A Windows zero-day called MiniPlasma gives any standard user full SYSTEM access on a fully patched machine. Microsoft patched it in December 2020, assigned it …
A new Linux zero-day called Dirty Frag gives any local user full root access on every major Linux distribution, and right now no distribution has a patched …
Since 2017, every major Linux distribution has been shipping a flaw that hands root access to any local user. The exploit is a 732-byte Python script that uses …
Last week at Black Hat Asia in Singapore, a Kaspersky researcher publicly demonstrated PhantomRPC: five separate ways to take any standard Windows service …
Two unpatched Windows Defender zero-days have been actively exploited since April 16th, and both of them work on fully patched Windows 10, Windows 11, and …
Windows Defender, the built-in antivirus running on every Windows machine, has a zero-day exploit with full source code sitting on GitHub. No patch, no CVE, and …
NVIDIA GPUs with GDDR6 memory can be used to take full control of a system, including a root shell, bypassing hardware defenses that were supposed to stop …
In January 2026, Microsoft had already patched 114 vulnerabilities! Four modem drivers deleted since October. Companies that wrote them: gone. Source code: …
A 52-year-old tape just revealed a buffer overflow that looks exactly like the bugs we’re still finding today. 😏 In July 2025, someone found a magnetic …
Your Windows Kernel has a race condition. You’ve probably never thought about race conditions. (Most people haven’t. But stick with me…) …