Cisco Patches Actively Exploited ASA and FTD VPN Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls

Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw in Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76418, is rated 8.6 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the

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Anthropic AI model finds Linux kernel bug that leads to remote root access

Linux servers running Multipath TCP (MPTCP) could be vulnerable to remote code execution through a flaw in the kernel’s networking stack. Anthropic has disclosed a zero-click exploit developed with an unreleased Claude research model that allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root, without requiring any user interaction. Tracked as CVE-2026-98432, the vulnerability is a race-condition-in…

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Trezor Warns of Suspected Hardware Implant in One of Its Wallets Sold by CryptoBilis

A Trezor Safe 5 hardware wallet bought from the reseller CryptoBilis has an extra circuit board that sends out the recovery phrase over a mobile network, a customer has reported. Trezor has not yet examined the device. It is telling everyone who bought a Trezor from CryptoBilis since March 2026 to move their funds to a new wallet with a new recovery phrase. Trezor said in a blog post

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Why Urgent Security Fixes Aren't Fixed. Observe, Prove, Act, Confirm Gets Them Moving

The alert is critical. The fix is known. And the ticket sits in a queue for days. Security teams understand the risk, but the people who keep applications available need proof that the change won’t break anything. Their concerns are practical. An IPS protection could block legitimate traffic. A configuration change could interrupt a service. An endpoint policy could affect an application