General
High
17 May
Eduard Kovacs /
Security Week:
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46300, is similar to the recently disclosed exploits named Dirty Frag and Copy Fail. The post New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
General
High
17 May
Ionut Arghire /
Security Week:
Introduced in 2008, the critical-severity security defect was patched this week in NGINX Plus and NGINX open source. The post PoC Code Published for Critical NGINX Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
General
High
17 May
A security researcher claims Microsoft quietly fixed an Azure Backup for AKS vulnerability after rejecting his report, and without issuing a CVE. Microsoft disputes the claim, telling BleepingComputer the behavior was expected and that "no product changes were made," despite the researcher documenti
Telecom
High
17 May
Ann Mary Peter /
MediaNama:
OpenAI has endorsed the Kids Online Safety Act and new AI safety bills while positioning artificial intelligence as essential public infrastructure. The post OpenAI backs kids safety law, says AI must avoid social media’s failures appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
Telecom
High
17 May
Prabhanu Kumar Das /
MediaNama:
The US Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act of 2025 in a 15-9 bipartisan vote, establishing regulatory rules for digital assets, splitting oversight between the CFTC and SEC. The post Lowdown: What is the landmark US cryptocurrency regulation passed by the Senate Banking Committee appea
General
Critical
17 May
A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability is raising serious concerns across the security community, as it allows attackers to access highly sensitive data, including SSH private keys and password hashes, on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2026-46333, the flaw has been nicknamed “ssh-keysign-pwn
General
High
17 May
Two critical memory-safety vulnerabilities in PHP’s image-processing functions could allow attackers to leak sensitive heap memory or to execute denial-of-service attacks via specially crafted JPEG files. The flaws, discovered in PHP’s ext/standard extension by Positive Technologies researcher Nikit
General
High
17 May
A widely used download manager trusted by millions has briefly turned into a malware delivery platform after attackers compromised the official JDownloader website, replacing legitimate installers with malicious versions targeting both Windows and Linux users. The incident, confirmed by developers a
General
High
17 May
Two vulnerabilities in the Avada Builder plugin for WordPress, with an estimated one million active installations, allow hackers to read arbitrary files and extract sensitive information from the database. [...]
General
High
17 May
Sergiu Gatlan /
BleepingComputer:
During the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, competitors collected $385,750 in cash awards after exploiting 15 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in multiple products, including Windows 11, Microsoft Exchange, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations. [...]
General
High
17 May
(The Hacker News) /
The Hacker News:
A critical security vulnerability impacting the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild to inject malicious JavaScript code into WooCommerce checkout pages with the goal of stealing payment data. Details of the activity were published by Sansec this week. T
Government
High
17 May
The company may also need to demonstrate robust security certifications and compliance with India's data protection framework to win customer trust.
General
High
16 May
Ashish Khaitan /
The Cyber Express:
A newly revealed Exim BDAT vulnerability is affecting some email server setups that use Exim as their Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), prompting security attention due to its severity. Tracked as CVE-2026-45185 with a CVSS score of 9.8 and internally referred to as “Dead.Letter,” the issue is classified a
General
High
16 May
Samiksha Jain /
The Cyber Express:
The growing use of AI vulnerability management tools is changing how organisations identify security flaws, but the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned that companies must not rush into adopting artificial intelligence without understanding the risks and operational challenges invo
General
High
16 May
Ashish Khaitan /
The Cyber Express:
Foxconn, one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers and a major supplier to Apple, has confirmed that a recent Foxconn cyberattack disrupted operations at several of its North American facilities. According to online reports, a ransomware group known as Nitrogen claimed responsibility for
General
Critical
16 May
A critical vulnerability in the Amazon Redshift JDBC driver has put enterprise applications at severe risk of Remote Code Execution (RCE). Threat actors can exploit this newly disclosed flaw simply by manipulating database connection URLs. This hidden vulnerability allows attackers to hijack the app
General
High
16 May
Tushar Subhra Dutta /
Cybersecurity News:
A recent intrusion uncovered by security researchers revealed a calculated attack campaign that used a legitimate enterprise management tool as a weapon. The threat actor gained access through a compromised third-party IT services provider, then quietly moved through the victim’s environment using t
General
High
16 May
A chain of four critical vulnerabilities discovered in OpenClaw, one of the fastest-growing open-source platforms for autonomous AI agents, has left an estimated 245,000 publicly accessible server instances exposed to remote exploitation, credential theft, and persistent backdoor installation. Origi
General
High
16 May
Ionut Arghire /
Security Week:
The refresh resolves critical-severity use-after-free and other types of bugs in various browser components. The post Chrome 148 Update Patches Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
General
High
16 May
Hackers are leveraging a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Burst Statistics to obtain admin-level access to websites. [...]