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Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities
Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. “Improper link resolution before file access (‘link following’)…
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When Identity is the Attack Path
Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do – a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS behavior. No one misconfigured anything or violated a policy. Yet that single key, which was easily accessible to a minor-league attacker, could have…
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9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several…
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GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension
GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension. The development comes as the Nx team revealed that the extension, nrwl.angular-console, was breached after one of its…
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David Osborn Congratulates Hank Sanders and Thanks Supporters After HD 52 Democratic Primary
Free news: “This campaign was always a collective effort, and I am deeply proud of the work we did together,” David Osborn said. “Even though we lost, we did essential work.”
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May 19 Primary Election: Preliminary results for Hood River and Wasco counties: Updated 10 a.m. May 20
Free news: preliminary results of the May 19 Primary Election as of 10 a.m. May 20.
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Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity to Secure AI Agents During Development
Microsoft has unveiled two new open-source tools called RAMPART and Clarity to assist developers in better testing the security of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. RAMPART, short for Risk Assessment and Measurement Platform for Agentic Red Teaming, functions as a Pytest-native safety and security testing framework for writing and running safety and security tests for AI…
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Microsoft Takes Down Malware-Signing Service Behind Ransomware Attacks
Microsoft on Tuesday said it disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) operation that weaponized the company’s Artifact Signing system to deliver malicious code and conduct ransomware and other attacks, compromising thousands of machines and networks across the world. The tech giant attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Fox Tempest, which it said offered the…
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Webworm Deploys EchoCreep and GraphWorm Backdoors Using Discord and MS Graph API
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh activity from a China-aligned threat actor known as Webworm in 2025, deploying custom backdoors that employ Discord and Microsoft Graph API for command-and-control (C2 or C&C) communications. Webworm, first publicly documented by Broadcom-owned Symantec in September 2022, is assessed to be active since at least 2022, targeting government agencies
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GitHub Breached — Employee Device Hack Led to Exfiltration of 3,800+ Internal Repos
GitHub on Tuesday said it’s investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after the notorious threat actor known as TeamPCP listed the platform’s source code and internal organizations for sale on a cybercrime forum. “While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’…
