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Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities

Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Endpoint Security / Vulnerability 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… 

9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros

9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros

Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Linux / Vulnerability 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… 

GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension

GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension

Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Developer Tools 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… 

Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks

Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks

Ravie LakshmananMay 21, 2026Web Security / Vulnerability Drupal has released security updates for a “highly critical” security vulnerability in Drupal Core that could be exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution, privilege escalation, or… 

Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity to Secure AI Agents During Development

Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity to Secure AI Agents During Development

Ravie LakshmananMay 20, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Security Testing 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… 

Microsoft Takes Down Malware-Signing Service Behind Ransomware Attacks

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…