A web application is a lot like a castle. It’s got WAFs, firewalls, and encryption guarding the front door. This leads many developers to…

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TL;DR Qualys disclosed RefluXFS on July 22, 2026. Tracked as CVE-2026-64600, it is a Linux kernel XFS privilege escalation to root. Qualys estimates the flaw potentially affects more than 16.4 mil…

TL;DR Check Point disclosed a SmartConsole authentication bypass on July 22, 2026. The flaw, CVE-2026-16232, is already exploited in the wild against a handful of customers. It carries a CVSS scor…

TL;DR The Exim team published advisory EXIM-Security-2026-06-22.1 on July 22, 2026. It describes an Exim vulnerability that lets a local attacker read files outside the mail spool. The bug can lea…

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The Art of Finding What’s Hidden

👻 The Ghost Subscriber: How I Haunted Hidan’s Premium Tiers An IDOR vulnerability in subscription APIs, a $200 bounty, and the 7-day ghost that proved privacy matters everywhere By …

If you’ve spent five minutes looking at a vulnerability report or a bug bounty write-up, you’ve seen these tags everywhere: CWE-79…

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Paperclip Logic, Academic Pressure, and Swarm Behavior

This is the second part of the previous writeup. If you have skipped the first part, it is recommended to read it first in order to…

Understanding the backbone of Windows environments, and why compromising it often means compromising everything.

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Phase 2 — Finding the Exact Offset & Taking Control of EIP 🎯

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) rely heavily on alerts generated by SIEM, EDR, and other security tools. These alerts are essential, but…