When Encryption Isn’t Really Encryption

Discovery During a recent network security assessment, we were working on an environment that was well-hardened – Patching was current, password policies were strong, and network segmentation was in place. So, as ...
Cogent: AI Exploit Developer Threats Outpace Scanner Detection On Critical Vulnerabilities

Cogent: AI Exploit Developer Threats Outpace Scanner Detection On Critical Vulnerabilities

AI-native cybersecurity firm Cogent reveals that AI-assisted exploit development has collapsed vulnerability-to-weaponization timelines from 125 days to 12 hours, rendering traditional scanner-based detection cycles obsolete ...
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AI Vulnerability Discovery and the Open Source CVE Surge

AI Vulnerability Discovery and the Open Source CVE Surge

The volume of CVEs landing against widely used open source libraries has jumped sharply in the last several months, and the cause isn’t a sudden drop in code quality — it’s that ...
Security Boulevard

AI Vulnerability Chaining – Why Your Security Stack Cannot Detect What Comes Next

Mythos combined four separate low-severity bugs into a complete browser sandbox escape. Traditional scanners evaluate vulnerabilities in isolation ...
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What the NVD ‘Slowdown’ Means For You: How to Stay Ahead in Vulnerability Management

Flashpoint’s vulnerability intelligence is powered by an independent research team that is constantly on the hunt for the latest vulnerabilities. Although the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) may be experiencing disruptions, it has ...
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Reflecting on Your Tier Model: CVE-2025-33073 and the One-Hop Problem

The False Sense of Security SMB signing on domain controllers has become standard practice across most Active Directory environments. But this hardening may have created a false sense of security. CVE-2025-33073 changes ...

CVE-2026-3630: Critical Buffer Overflow in Delta Electronics COMMGR2 Enables Remote Code Execution

Key Takeaways CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical) with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, according to the CNA Delta Electronics COMMGR2 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CWE-787) enabling unauthenticated remote code execution NVD lists ...

CVE-2026-3342: Critical Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability in WatchGuard Fireware OS

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Key Takeaways CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (High) according to NVD analysis Affects WatchGuard Fireware OS versions 11.9-11.12.4_Update1, 12.0-12.11.7, and 2025.1-2026.1.1 Authenticated privileged administrators can execute arbitrary code with root permissions ...
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When HttpOnly Isn’t Enough: Chaining XSS and GhostScript for Full RCE Compromise

What started as a standard cross-site scripting vulnerability in a document processing platform turned into a full administrative takeover of the application and, ultimately, remote code execution on the underlying server. The ...