SquareX claims to have found a way to abuse a hidden Comet API to execute local commands, but Perplexity says the research is fake.
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Vulnerability Allowed Scraping of 3.5 Billion WhatsApp Accounts
Researchers demonstrated a now-patched vulnerability that could have been used to enumerate all WhatsApp accounts.
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Recent 7-Zip Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit targeting the high-severity remote code execution (RCE) bug exists.
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SolarWinds Patches Three Critical Serv-U Vulnerabilities
SolarWinds Serv-U is affected by vulnerabilities that can be exploited for remote code execution.
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Fortinet Discloses Second Exploited FortiWeb Zero-Day in a Week
An OS command injection flaw, the exploited zero-day allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the underlying system.
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Meta Paid Out $4 Million via Bug Bounty Program in 2025
The total amount of money given to bug bounty hunters by the social media giant has reached $25 million.
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Chrome 142 Update Patches Exploited Zero-Day
The flaw was reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group and was likely exploited by a commercial spyware vendor.
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Widespread Exploitation of XWiki Vulnerability Observed
The exploitation of the recent XWiki vulnerability has expanded to botnets, cryptocurrency miners, scanners, and custom tools.
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Fortinet Confirms Active Exploitation of Critical FortiWeb Vulnerability
Security firms say the flaw has been actively exploited for weeks, even as Fortinet quietly shipped fixes and CISA added the bug to its KEV catalog.
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In Other News: Deepwatch Layoffs, macOS Vulnerability, Amazon AI Bug Bounty
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: EchoGram attack undermines AI guardrails, Asahi brewer still crippled after ransomware attack, Sora 2 system prompt uncovered.
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