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ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit

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Author: Mandiant / Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) Published: June 11, 2026 Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/shinyhunters-targets-education-sector-oracle-exploit Summary Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group report a zero-day exploitation and extortion campaign by ShinyHunters (tracked as UNC6240) against Oracle PeopleSoft environments, running from May 27 to June 9, 2026. The actor exploited CVE-2026-35273, a critical (CVSS 9.8) unauthenticated … Read more

Critical Windows Netlogon RCE flaw now exploited in attacks

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Author: Sergiu Gatlan Published: June 1, 2026 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/critical-windows-netlogon-remote-code-execution-flaw-now-exploited-in-attacks/ Summary BleepingComputer reports that CVE-2026-41089, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Netlogon RPC interface, is now being exploited in attacks according to Belgium’s Centre for Cybersecurity (CCB). Rated CVSS 9.8, the flaw affects Windows servers acting as domain controllers and can be triggered … Read more

Rapid7 Observed Exploitation of PAN-OS GlobalProtect Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2026-0257)

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Author: Rapid7 Published: May 29, 2026 (last updated June 3, 2026) Source: https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/etr-rapid7-observed-exploitation-of-pan-os-globalprotect-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-cve-2026-0257/ Summary Rapid7 reports active in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect portal/gateway. The flaw stems from improper certificate handling in the authentication override feature: when the certificate used to encrypt authentication-override cookies is reused for … Read more

Thalium

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Company: Thalium Website: https://blog.thalium.re/ Overview Thalium is a cybersecurity research team that is part of the Thales group. Based in Rennes, France, the team focuses on threat intelligence, vulnerability research, and red team tool development, and publishes technical security research on its blog. Products & Services As presented on its site, Thalium’s public work centres … Read more

Rooting Xiaomi WiFi Routers

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Author: Julien R. (SoEasY) and Marin Duroyon Published: September 25, 2023 Source: https://blog.thalium.re/posts/rooting-xiaomi-wifi-routers/ Summary Researchers at Thalium documented a chain of remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting Xiaomi Wi-Fi routers built on a shared, OpenWrt-derived codebase, with the MI AIoT Router AC2350 as their primary target. The work spans three attack surfaces — LAN post-authentication, LAN … Read more

Enable SSH on XiaoMI Router(AX3000T) new Version R1.0.97

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Author: yuspring Published: Gist last active May 6, 2026 Source: https://gist.github.com/yuspring/37aa22bb18cb9c2a773252fb19f6b794 Summary This GitHub Gist documents a technique for enabling root SSH access on the Xiaomi AX3000T Wi-Fi router running stock firmware version R1.0.97 (and later builds after 1.0.90). Earlier community methods relied on the xqsystem/start_binding flaw, which Xiaomi patched; the author shows that the … Read more

Breaking Out of Restricted Mode: XSS to RCE in Visual Studio Code

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Author: Devesh Logendran (STAR Labs SG) Published: May 14, 2025 Source: https://starlabs.sg/blog/2025/05-breaking-out-of-restricted-mode-xss-to-rce-in-visual-studio-code/ Summary STAR Labs detailed a cross-site scripting flaw in Visual Studio Code’s Jupyter notebook error rendering that can be chained into full remote code execution. A crafted .ipynb file triggers unsanitized HTML in the “minimal error” renderer, executing JavaScript inside a VS Code … Read more

Visual Studio Code: Remote Code Execution (CVE-2022-41034)

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Author: Zemnmez (@Zemnmez), Google Security Research Published: December 1, 2022 Source: https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-pw56-c55x-cm9m Summary Google Security Research disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-41034) in Microsoft Visual Studio Code. By luring a victim into clicking a crafted link, an attacker could cause VS Code to open a remote Jupyter Notebook in a trusted context, abuse … Read more

Securing Developer Tools: Git Integrations

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Author: Thomas Chauchefoin (Vulnerability Researcher, Sonar) Published: March 15, 2022 Source: https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-git-integrations/ Summary Sonar’s research team showed how a malicious Git repository can achieve arbitrary code execution simply by being opened in a developer tool or navigated to in a terminal. The trick abuses Git’s per-repository .git/config and its core.fsmonitor directive, which Git runs as … Read more

Securing Developer Tools: Argument Injection in Visual Studio Code

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Author: Thomas Chauchefoin (Vulnerability Researcher, Sonar) Published: August 23, 2022 Source: https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-argument-injection-in-vscode/ Summary Sonar’s research team disclosed an argument injection vulnerability (CVE-2022-30129) in Visual Studio Code’s built-in Git integration. By luring a developer into clicking a crafted vscode:// URI, an attacker could smuggle dash-prefixed options into the underlying git command line and achieve arbitrary command … Read more