🛡️ Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2026 - 120 Vulnerabilities Fixed, Including 29 Critical RCE Flaws
Source: https://t.co/Kwjlq3sYml
Microsoft’s May 2026 Patch Tuesday lands with a heavy enterprise focus, fixing 120 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Azure, developer tools, and Microsoft 365 apps, including 29 remote code execution (RCE) flaws rated Critical.
Unlike several recent cycles, Microsoft reports no zero‑days exploited in the wild or publicly disclosed ahead of the release, but the breadth of attack surface from DNS and Netlogon to Office and Wi‑Fi drivers means defenders cannot afford to treat this month as low risk.
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Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it.
We will provide more information in our official channels as soon as we are able to.
⚠️Google Gemini CLI Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Execute Commands on Host Systems
Source: https://t.co/b4g1rl3NHU
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Google Gemini CLI and its associated GitHub Action. Assigned a maximum severity score of CVSS 10.0, the flaw allowed unprivileged external attackers to execute commands directly on host systems.
This vulnerability effectively turned automated CI/CD pipelines into potential attack vectors in the supply chain. The core issue was how the Gemini CLI handled workspace trust in non-interactive environments.
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⚠️ Linux Kernel 0-Day "Copy Fail" Roots Every Major Distribution Since 2017
Source: https://t.co/fyfuQjBYHn
A critical zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been publicly disclosed, enabling any unprivileged local user to obtain root access on virtually every major Linux distribution shipped since 2017.
Copy Fail is a straight-line logic bug not a race condition in the Linux kernel's authencesn cryptographic template, reachable via the AF_ALG socket interface combined with the splice() system call.
A single 732-byte Python script using only standard library modules achieves deterministic root on every tested distribution and architecture.
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🚨 New VECT 2.0 Ransomware Destroys Files Over 128 KB Across Windows, Linux, & ESXi
Source: https://t.co/BJ5h0UvpTc
A newly documented ransomware strain called VECT 2.0 has drawn serious attention from the cybersecurity community for a deeply damaging flaw in its design.
Unlike typical ransomware that locks files and demands payment for decryption, VECT 2.0 permanently destroys any file larger than 128 KB, making recovery impossible even if a victim pays the ransom.
VECT Ransomware first appeared in December 2025 on a Russian-language cybercrime forum, operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) program.
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‼️🚨 BREAKING: An AI found a Linux kernel zero-day that roots every distribution since 2017. The exploit fits in 732 bytes of Python. Patch your kernel ASAP.
The vulnerability is CVE-2026-31431, nicknamed "Copy Fail," disclosed today by Theori. It has been sitting quietly in the Linux kernel for nine years.
Most Linux privilege-escalation bugs are picky. They need a precise timing window (a "race"), or specific kernel addresses leaked from somewhere, or careful tuning per distribution. Copy Fail needs none of that. It is a straight-line logic mistake that works on the first try, every time, on every mainstream Linux box.
The attacker just needs a normal user account on the machine. From there, the script asks the kernel to do some encryption work, abuses how that work is wired up, and ends up writing 4 bytes into a memory area called the "page cache" (Linux's high-speed copy of files in RAM). Those 4 bytes can be aimed at any program the system trusts, like /usr/bin/su, the shortcut to becoming root.
Result: the next time anyone runs that program, it lets the attacker in as root.
What should worry most: the corruption never touches the file on disk. It only exists in Linux's in-memory copy of that file. If you imaged the hard drive afterwards, the on-disk file would match the official package hash exactly. Reboot the machine, or just put it under memory pressure (any normal system load that needs the RAM), and the cached copy reloads fresh from disk.
Containers do not help either. The page cache is shared across the whole host, so a process inside a container can use this bug to compromise the underlying server and reach into other tenants.
The original sin was a 2017 "in-place optimization" in a kernel crypto module called algif_aead. It was meant to make encryption slightly faster. The change broke a critical safety assumption, and nobody noticed for nine years. That bug then rode every kernel update from 2017 to today.
This vulnerability affects the following:
🔴 Shared servers (dev boxes, jump hosts, build servers): any user becomes root
🔴 Kubernetes and container clusters: one compromised pod escapes to the host
🔴 CI runners (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins): a malicious pull request becomes root on the runner
🔴 Cloud platforms running user code (notebooks, agent sandboxes, serverless functions): a tenant becomes host root
Timeline:
🔴 March 23, 2026: reported to the Linux kernel security team
🔴 April 1: patch committed to mainline (commit a664bf3d603d)
🔴 April 22: CVE assigned
🔴 April 29: public disclosure
Mitigation: update your kernel to a build that includes mainline commit a664bf3d603d. If you cannot patch immediately, turn off the vulnerable module:
echo "install algif_aead /bin/false" > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-algif.conf
rmmod algif_aead 2>/dev/null || true
For environments that run untrusted code (containers, sandboxes, CI runners), block access to the kernel's AF_ALG crypto interface entirely, even after patching. Almost nothing legitimate needs it, and blocking it shuts the door on this whole class of bug...
🚨 SaaS platform ClickUp, used by 85% of the Fortune 500, has been leaking customer emails through its homepage for at least 465 days, and counting.
ClickUp has a $4 billion valuation. They are SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 42001, and PCI DSS certified. The fix takes about 90 seconds.
Security researcher @weezerOSINT noticed a hardcoded Split[.]io SDK token sitting in plain text inside ClickUp's production JavaScript bundle. The bundle loads before you log in. View source, copy key, send one unauthenticated GET request, and 4.5MB of ClickUp's internal configuration is exposed: 959 customer emails and 3,165 internal feature flags.
The customer list consists of Home Depot. Fortinet, who sells enterprise firewalls. Tenable, who makes Nessus, the vulnerability scanner half the industry runs on. Autodesk. Rakuten. Mayo Clinic. Permira. Akin Gump. A Microsoft contractor. 71 ClickUp employees. Government workers from Wyoming, Arkansas, North Carolina, Montana, Queensland, and New Zealand.
It gets worse, ClickUp has a flag named "enable-missing-authz-checks." It is active in production. It lists five ClickUp API endpoints the company itself documented as having no authorization. They wrote down their own holes in a config anyone with a browser can read.
At first disclosure, another flag carried a live ClickUp API token tied to Fairfax County Public Schools, one of the largest school districts in the US, serving 180,000 students. The token pulled 1,066 staff records, including Chief Financial Services data. ClickUp removed that one token. They never rotated the SDK key that exposed it.
While that report rotted, the same researcher found a second bug. ClickUp's webhook API has zero SSRF protection. Reported via HackerOne on April 8, 2026. Status: "New." 19 days, zero response.
The original report was filed by @weezerOSINT on January 17, 2025 (!). The key is still live. The emails still drop with one GET. ClickUp has had 465 days to rotate a single token. Zero response...
The fix is one click in the Split[.]io dashboard... ClickUp still hasn't replied to the researcher.
⚠️ Microsoft Confirms Remote Desktop Warnings May Display Incorrectly After April Update
Source: https://t.co/PuXP9gsrQi
Microsoft has officially acknowledged a known issue in its April 2026 Windows 11 cumulative update: Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) security warning dialogs may render incorrectly on certain system configurations, a significant usability concern given that the warnings are designed to protect users from active phishing threats.
Users quickly began reporting rendering failures with the new dialog, prompting Microsoft to add it as a formal known issue on April 23, 2026, before issuing a correction to the documentation on April 27, 2026.
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🚨 BREAKING: Wiz Research discovered Remote Code Execution on https://t.co/SvN2lGsnbO with a single git push
The flaw in @github allowed unauthorized access to millions of repositories belonging to other users and organizations 🤯
🚨 New Windows 0-Click Vulnerability Exploited to Bypass Defender SmartScreen
Source: https://t.co/uBwWAxBYvJ
A critical zero-click authentication coercion vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32202, stemming from an incomplete patch for a Windows Shell security feature bypass actively weaponized by the Russian APT28 threat group.
Microsoft confirmed active exploitation of the flaw and released a fix as part of its April 2026 Patch Tuesday update.
The attack's primary mechanism abuses the Windows Shell namespace parsing pipeline. APT28 embedded a malicious LinkTargetIDList structure inside the LNK file, a binary IDList that Windows Explorer parses and renders, similar to how Control Panel items are displayed.
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😳 Entra ID Agent ID Administrator role flaw enabled service principal takeover.
Users could take over non-agent service principals, add credentials, and escalate privileges before Microsoft’s April 9, 2026 patch.
🔗 See how the attack worked → https://t.co/WCitnTrOnl
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue https://t.co/x8wHYjS6nM
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5. Transformers
Use self-attention to understand relationships across sequences for highly contextual generation.
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