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GitHub branding image used by Wiz Research in their CVE-2026-3854 writeup.
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Wiz found an RCE in GitHub's git-push pipeline. The patch shipped in six hours.

CVE-2026-3854 is a CVSS 8.7 RCE in GitHub's git-push pipeline. github.com fixed it within hours. 88% of Enterprise Server installs were still vulnerable at disclosure.

Socket security research card promoting the CanisterWorm Namastex compromise analysis.
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Another npm worm: CanisterWorm hits 16 Namastex packages and reaches PyPI on the same hop

Socket flagged a self-propagating worm in @automagik/genie, pgserve, and 14 sibling Namastex Labs packages. It steals 40 credential categories and republishes itself.

Adobe Acrobat product hero card showing the red Acrobat icon.
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Adobe's Acrobat zero-day sat on VirusTotal for 136 days. Patch is APSB26-43.

CVE-2026-34621 is an actively exploited Acrobat and Reader bug that runs attacker JavaScript inside the PDF runtime. The first sample hit VirusTotal in November and went unflagged.

A car driving past a city skyline at night, illustrating mobile cybercrime.
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Toronto Police arrest three behind 'SMS blasters'. Phones lost 911 access for seconds at a time.

Project Lighthouse logged 13 million cellular disruptions from car-mounted IMSI catchers spoofing legitimate towers. Three men face 44 charges in Canada's first SMS-blaster bust.

BleepingComputer's Microsoft Patch Tuesday header art.
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Microsoft April 2026 Patch Tuesday: 167 fixes, two zero-days, and a SharePoint bug already in CISA's KEV

Microsoft's April 8 Patch Tuesday closes 167 CVEs. CVE-2026-32201 in SharePoint is being exploited and CISA added it the same day. Here's what to patch first.

GnuPG and OpenPGP key icon over an abstract lattice background.
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GnuPG 2.5.19 lands ML-KEM in mainline. Post-quantum OpenPGP is no longer a side branch.

Werner Koch shipped GnuPG 2.5.19 on April 24 with FIPS-203 ML-KEM, the first stable post-quantum encryption algorithm in OpenPGP. Here's what changed and what didn't.

Anthropic Project Glasswing branding from Anthropic's news page.
AI·

A Discord group guessed Anthropic's URL pattern and walked into Claude Mythos

Bloomberg reports a small group accessed Anthropic's locked-down Mythos model the same day it launched, using credentials from a third-party contractor and educated URL guessing.

Illustration accompanying Tom's Hardware coverage of the Linux kernel driver removal.
Open Source·

Linux 7.1 is yanking ham radio, ISDN, and ATM. The reason: AI bug-report spam.

Jakub Kicinski's networking pull request removes 138,161 lines of decades-old code. Kernel maintainers say LLM-generated bug reports made the old subsystems un-maintainable.

Mozilla Firefox 150 security announcement cover graphic
Open Source·

Mozilla fixed 271 Firefox bugs that Claude Mythos found. Its own tests caught 22.

Firefox 150 shipped Monday with 271 security fixes from Anthropic's Project Glasswing. Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley says Mythos matches elite human researchers.

Google's social card for the post-quantum cryptography migration blog post
Web·

Google just moved 'Q-Day' to 2029. Here's what that changes for your crypto stack

Google's security team says cryptographically-relevant quantum computers could arrive by 2029, six years before the NSA's 2031 deadline. What to migrate, and in what order.