CVE-2026-31431 CVSS 7.8 flaw since 2017 enables root via 732-byte exploit, impacting major Linux distributions.

The flaw allows an unprivileged local user to write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux ...

ZiChatBot malware spread via 3 PyPI packages in July 2025 uses Zulip APIs as C2, enabling stealthy attacks across systems ...

Cisco has confirmed that the ArcaneDoor threat actor deployed a persistence mechanism that isn't handled by the security ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has disclosed that a U.S. federal civilian agency was compromised by FIRESTARTER malware on a Cisco ...

The new kernel's number ends in zero, but it's not a milestone release. Linux 7.0 boasts improvements in Rust, its scheduler - and it's further embracing AI. More than half a dozen distros will let ...

Palo Alto Networks warned customers that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity PAN-OS ...

Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are responsible for Linux's code. If you try to mess around with ...

What just happened? The stable Linux kernel 7.0 was officially released over the weekend, marking the first major version bump since version 6.0 launched in October 2022. The new release introduces ...

"No, VS is Windows only and that isn't going to change," said Microsoft's Mads Kristensen today in a social media post in response to the question that keeps popping up about taking the flagship IDE ...

Admins are being warned by cyber experts from the US and UK that this is part of continuing campaign to crack Cisco firewalls ...

An interministerial seminar convened on 8 April by the Directorate General for Enterprise, the National Agency for Information Systems Security, and the State Procurement Directorate produced a ...