Development & Open Source
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Emphere Secures $2.1M to Automate Vulnerability Remediation with AI
Seattle-based startup Emphere raises $2.1 million to automate open-source vulnerability remediation as the NVD backlog exceeds 27,000…

CVE-2026-8936: Docker Desktop VM Panic Triggered via grpcfuse Recursion
A low-privileged container can trigger a VM panic in Docker Desktop through uncontrolled recursion in the grpcfuse module. The vulnera…

SI-CERT: How a 13-Person Team Manages 6,000 Annual Incidents
Slovenia’s national CSIRT, SI-CERT, processes 6,000 cyber incidents annually with a core staff of just 13. By deploying a specialized…

Gitea Bug Exposed Private Container Images for Four Years
CVE-2026-27771: A critical flaw in Gitea’s container registry left approximately 31,750 instances vulnerable for nearly four years. Di…

DNS-AID: Linux Foundation Launches Decentralized Discovery for AI Agents
The Linux Foundation has launched DNS-AID, an open-source protocol that leverages existing DNS infrastructure to enable decentralized…

Critical Flowise RCE: Exploit Code Released for CVSS 9.9 Vulnerability
Obsidian Security has published proof-of-concept exploit code for CVE-2026-40933, a critical RCE vulnerability in Flowise. The flaw le…

CIFSwitch: Linux Kernel Bug Grants Root Access on CentOS and Rocky Linux
CIFSwitch enables local privilege escalation to root across multiple Linux distributions. While a public PoC is available and an upstr…

7-Zip CVE-2026-48095: NTFS Heap Overflow Enables Vtable Hijacking
A critical heap buffer overflow in 7-Zip 26.00 allows for Remote Code Execution (RCE) via specially crafted NTFS files, regardless of…

Docker Desktop ECI Flaw: High-Severity LPE Vulnerability Enables Container Escapes
A vulnerability in Docker Desktop’s Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) allows for local privilege escalation with a CVSS score of 8.8.…

TrapDoor Campaign Targets Crypto and AI Developers via 34+ Malicious Packages
The TrapDoor campaign deployed credential-stealing malware across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io, exfiltrating crypto wallets and weaponizin…

GitLab 19.0 Debuts Native Secrets Management and Air-Gapped AI
GitLab 19.0 integrates native secrets management, agentic merge request workflows, and self-hosted AI models, reinforcing its 'single…

Unit 42: Frontier AI Models Exploiting Open-Source Transparency to Automate Supply Chain Attacks
Frontier AI models are demonstrating the autonomous reasoning required to identify vulnerabilities in open-source code and orchestrate…