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Nginx patched. Assume breach.
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Nginx patched. Assume breach.

NGINX issued the nginx-poolslip patch. Operator analysis of what is confirmed, what is not, and what must change at the proxy boundary.

The zero-day wasn't the failure.
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The zero-day wasn't the failure.

Luxembourg's national telecoms network collapsed from one Huawei zero-day. The failure was architectural, not vendor-specific. Concentration was the control gap.

The IIS virtual directory that won't stop bleeding
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The IIS virtual directory that won't stop bleeding

Technical analysis of the Exchange Server zero-day, the frontend-to-backend trust boundary it abuses, and what fires in EDR and IIS telemetry.

LLM agent shipped first attributed zero-day
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LLM agent shipped first attributed zero-day

Technical breakdown of the first AI-discovered zero-day 2FA bypass: state-confusion in IdP step-three cookie issuance, exploit path, and detection gaps.

Microsoft's patch cadence is not the problem
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Microsoft's patch cadence is not the problem

The Exchange zero-day is the fifth in the same pattern since 2021. Why patching faster is not the fix, and what actually reduces blast radius.

AI just broke 2FA at scale
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AI just broke 2FA at scale

AI was used to develop a zero-day 2FA bypass deployed at mass scale. The control's economic assumption has been falsified in the wild.

Attackers weaponized AI to bypass 2FA at scale
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Attackers weaponized AI to bypass 2FA at scale

A reported AI-developed zero-day 2FA bypass in mass use removes the assumption that 2FA terminates the account takeover chain.

Four Windows 11 zero-days on one desk
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Four Windows 11 zero-days on one desk

One researcher controls the release cadence on four Windows 11 zero-days, including BitLocker bypass yellowkey and LPE greenplasma.

Patch status is not your risk variable
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Patch status is not your risk variable

Operator brief on yellowkey and greenplasma, two public Windows 11 zero-days from the bluehammer and redsun researcher. What failed. What must now be true.

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Dirty Frag roots every kernel

Technical analysis of CVE-2026-3490 'Dirty Frag' - a page_frag refcount UAF in the Linux kernel enabling local root on stock 5.15-6.8 kernels.

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Your patched kernel is still vulnerable

Dirty Frag - CVE-2026-31337, CVSS 7.8 - is a UAF in the Linux kernel's IPv4 fragment reassembly path. Container-to-host root on every major distro.

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Chrome's fourth zero-day of 2026 ships mid-cycle

Fourth Chrome zero-day of 2026 is a V8 type confusion. Inside the exploit chain, sandbox escape, and the patch gap attackers are weaponising right now.