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This is the worst Linux vulnerability in years. TL;DR copy.fail is a Linux kernel local privilege escalation, not a browser or clipboard attack. Disclosed by Theori on 29 April 2026 with a working PoC. It abuses the kernel crypto API (AF_ALG sockets) plus splice() to write four bytes at a time straight into the page cache of a file the attacker does not own. The exploit works unmodified across Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian, SUSE, Amazon Linux, Fedora and most others. No race condition, no per-distro offsets. The file on disk is never modified. AIDE, Tripwire and checksum-based monitoring see nothing. Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and the default RuntimeDefault seccomp profile do not block the syscall used. A custom seccomp profile is needed. The mainline fix landed on 1 April. Distros are rolling kernels out now. Patch. “Local privilege escalation” sounds dry, so let me unpack it. It means: an attacker who already has some way to run code on the machine, even as the most boring unprivileged user, can promote themselves to root. From there they can read every file, install backdoors, watch every process, and pivot to other systems. Why does that matter on shared infrastructure? Because “local” covers a lot of ground in 2026: every container on a shared Kubernetes node, every tenant on a shared hosting box, every CI/CD job that runs untrusted pull-request code, every WSL2 instance on a Windows laptop, every containerised AI agent given shell access. They all share one Linux kernel with their neighbours. A kernel LPE collapses that boundary. News article .

SAP has released the May 2026 security updates addressing 15 vulnerabilities across multiple products, including two critical flaws in the Commerce Cloud enterprise-grade e-commerce platform and the S/4HANA ERP suite. [...]

Agentic AI is already running in production environments across many organizations today. It is executing tasks, consuming data, and taking actions — most likely without meaningful involvement from the security team. The industry conversation has largely framed this as a question of policy: allow it, restrict it, or monitor it? However, that framing misses the point. The more urgent

HiddenLayer reveals infostealer malware in a Hugging Face repository

Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. [...]

The ICO has fined South Staffordshire Water nearly £1m for a series of data protection failings

CVSSv3 Score: 6.3 An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability [CWE-89] in FortiMail may allow an authenticated privileged attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via specifically crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 6.5 An OS command injection vulnerabtility [CWE-78] in FortiAP and FortiAP-W2 cli may allow an authenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via a specifically crafted cli command. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 5.0 An improper export of Android application components [CWE-926] in FortiTokenAndroid may allow other applications on the device to read the OTP code via an exported Content Provider URI. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 4.0 An Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') vulnerability [CWE-88] in FortiDeceptor WEB UI may allow an authenticated attacker with at least read-only admin permission to read log files via HTTP crafted requests. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 6.1 An improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command ("OS Command Injection") vulnerability [CWE-78] in FortiAP, FortiAP-U FortiAP-W2 CLI may allow an authenticated privileged attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via crafted CLI requests. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 5.2 A use of potentially Dangerous Function vulnerability [CWE-676] in FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager API may allow an authenticated attacker to cause a system hang via multiple specially crafted HTTP requests causing crashes. This happens if internal locks are aligned, which is out of control of the attacker. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 2.1 A Missing Authorization [CWE-862] in FortiClient Windows may allow an authenticated local attacker to decrypt a currently logged in users VPN password via use of an unprotected DLL function. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 9.1 An Improper Access Control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiAuthenticator may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via crafted requests. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 9.1 A missing authorization vulnerability [CWE-862] in FortiSandbox, FortiSandbox Cloud and FortiSandbox PaaS WEB UI may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via HTTP requests. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 8.3 An Out-Of-Bounds Write vulnerability [CWE-787] in FortiOS capwap daemon may allow an attacker controlling an authenticated FortiAP FortiExtender or FortiSwitch to gain execution privileges on the FortiGate device Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

CVSSv3 Score: 5.1 An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command ('SQL injection') vulnerability [CWE-89] in FortiNDR may allow an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands on selected databases and tables via specifically crafted HTTP requests. Revised on 2026-05-12 00:00:00

OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative that brings together frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model capabilities and Codex Security to help organizations identify and patch vulnerabilities before attackers find a way in using the same issues. "Daybreak combines the intelligence of OpenAI models, the extensibility of Codex as an agentic harness, and our partners across

Apple on Monday officially released iOS 26.5 with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Rich Communication Services (RCS) in beta as part of a "cross-industry effort" to replace traditional SMS with a more secure alternative. To that end, E2EE RCS messaging is rolling out to iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest version of Google Messages.

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