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Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access

Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access

Ravie LakshmananJul 23, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation… 

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control… 

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data

Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Vulnerability / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a… 

Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication

Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication

Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29059 (CVSS score: 7.5),… 

Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA

Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA

Swati KhandelwalJul 22, 2026Law Enforcement / Cybercrime German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as one of the world’s most widely used criminal phishing kits,… 

Trojanized Newtonsoft.Json Fork Hides Game-Rigging Code in a Working Library

Trojanized Newtonsoft.Json Fork Hides Game-Rigging Code in a Working Library

Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a NuGet typosquat that’s unlike the typical information-stealing malware distributed via package registries: usual info-stealers: it’s designed to rig live game results on…