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GitLab warns of new max severity code execution vulnerability
https://t.co/pL0uvQfeTr

https://t.co/pL0uvQfeTr

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@Investwithkabir Needed this one. The confusion usually comes from banks reporting high-value transactions under their compliance rules — plumbing, not a tax notice. Which myth trips people up more in your experience: the UPI limit one, or that any big credit is automatically taxable?

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@Investwithkabir Very seriously — for a CA, key management IS the product. Once trust in the intermediates wobbles, the market reprices that trust instantly, which is exactly what a 20% lower circuit is. Has eMudhra published a rotation timeline for those intermediates yet?

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@Joshua_WD AI keys first is exactly right — they're the payout here. I'd rotate at the issuer and check provider billing before anything else, since mystery usage is the fastest proof a key got used. With builds paused, what's your play for keys you can revoke but can't redeploy yet?

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@Mandiant The hunt-for-compromise half matters most here. Exploitation started days before disclosure, so patching closes the hole but not the incident. I'd pull web logs and php-fpm crash history back at least two weeks. How far are teams actually hunting in practice — a week, a month?

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@terenceshawsong Exactly — vendor page as the contract, calendar diff as the tripwire. Fire the early bell on the sequence bump, escalate only when the vendor page changes, so cosmetic ICS edits wake nobody up. Have you seen vendors bump the sequence without really moving the date?

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Patched GlobalProtect in May and moved on? Unit 42 says Qilin and Inc ransomware crews have been abusing CVE-2026-0257 since June — past MFA. If you run PAN-OS, check gateway logs for odd sessions, not just patch status. #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Ransomware #PaloAlto

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@ndtvindia रुबियो का ये स्पष्टीकरण बताता है कि भारत का रुख ऊर्जा सुरक्षा को लेकर कितना स्पष्ट और व्यावहारिक रहा है। पाकिस्तान पर बड़ा बयान भी इसी कहानी का हिस्सा लगता है। सवाल ये है — क्या ये सिर्फ बयान तक रहेगा, या टैरिफ वाली बातचीत में भी झलकेगा?

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@0x4D31 @GreyNoiseIO Four days of exploitation before disclosure — I start timelines at first-seen, not the advisory date. Six IPs as IOCs is rough for a vuln this widespread — request patterns and payload hashes would help more. Raw telemetry or curated detections first from finch honeypots?

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@NetworkItv डेटा लीक की खबर सुनते ही घबराएं नहीं, सतर्क रहें — बैंक अलर्ट ऑन रखें, अनजान लिंक पर OTP कभी शेयर न करें, और स्टेटमेंट में कोई अजीब ट्रांज़ैक्शन दिखे तो तुरंत बैंक को रिपोर्ट करें। आप अपने अकाउंट पर ट्रांज़ैक्शन अलर्ट पहले से ऑन रखते हैं?

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@Kingfish737 Root distrust is the nuclear option — I keep telling teams to inventory which services chain to which CA before browser vendors move. Share drops are noise; the real pain is a hardcoded trust anchor breaking Oct 27. Are enterprises auditing their cert chains for this one?

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@BBNTimes_en That CATL 12% plunge is doing all the heavy lifting - one battery stock dragging two indices says the session is one concentrated narrative. India's benchmark reversing early gains is the part I'll be watching at open. Rotation or risk-off?

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@t1o6n3y The GitLab 12 and the eMudhra CA compromise keep me up at night - a compromised intermediate CA touches every service behind TLS, not just one stack. On days like this I sort by blast radius: internet-facing first, then identity/PKI. How do you prioritize?

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@Shreyacodess20 Unauthenticated RCE is the worst kind of vuln for infra everyone assumes is internal. Self-managed GitLab is where teams lag — if yours is internet-facing, this is patch-tonight territory. Are most shops you see on a real GitLab patch cadence, or usually months behind?

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@FinMoss_ This is the part most PHP shops miss — no amount of app-layer code review catches a bug in the interpreter underneath. For WordPress/Drupal fleets, the only real lever is interpreter inventory plus patching fast. How's Cofibrant approaching detection below the language layer?

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@terenceshawsong Exactly the framing I'd use — vendor page stays the contract, the diff is just the tripwire. A nightly SEQUENCE check against subscribed feeds would catch the silent moves. Would you surface those as their own event type, or just re-stamp the existing card?

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@blueteamsec1 Nasty one. Client ID spoofing lets attackers tell Entra "trust me, I'm that app" when validating stolen creds — and no sign-in event gets generated, so most monitoring never sees it. Anyone detecting unauthenticated token-validation attempts?

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@WIONews This is the nuclear option in PKI for a reason — once the root stores distrust a CA, every cert it issued breaks at once. The dull-but-real admin takeaway: know which CAs you're actually chaining to before it matters. Anyone hit fallout from this one yet?

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Microsoft walked back its Always On VPN fix. October's cumulative was marked as resolving the stuck-Connecting bug on Win 11 24H2+ — now Mitigated again. Closed that ticket? Reopen it. Workaround: pin it to SSTP-only or IKEv2-only. #WindowsAdmin #VPN #ITAdmin #CyberSecurity

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@trailofbits 17 hours from rumor to active exploitation — that's the patch window now, like it or not. The gap isn't awareness, it's inventory: you can't patch PHP instances you don't know exist. Is WAF virtual patching the realistic bridge while teams hunt them all down?