SecPod

Blog Posts

I Asked AI to Break Into My Lab Server. It Changed How I Think About Security.

Read more →

Megalodon Supply Chain Attack Compromises 5,500+ GitHub Repositories Through Malicious CI/CD Workflows

Read more →

CVE-2026-41940: The Complete Guide to the cPanel & WHM Authentication Bypass, Attack Chain, Detection, and Remediation

Read more →

CVE-2026-41940 - Critical cPanel Vulnerability Exploited in Mr_Rot13 Backdoor campaign

Read more →

CVE-2026-41940 Attacks, Examples, and Real-World Incidents

Read more →

Vulnerability backlog is not just a remediation problem

Read more →

Breaking Down the FortiClient Breach: CVE-2026-35616 and the Rise of EKZ Infostealer

Read more →

Inside CVE-2026-0257: PAN-OS GlobalProtect Authentication Bypass Under Active Attack

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability, CVE-2026-0257, affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect Portal and Gateway deployments. The vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to establish an unauthorized VPN connection by exploiting weaknesses in the handling of authentication override cookies.

Read more →

Three Zero-Days, 206 Flaws Fixed: Microsoft Delivers Record-Breaking June 2026 Patch Tuesday

The second Tuesday of June 2026 marked Microsoft's largest Patch Tuesday release on record, delivering security updates for a massive range of vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure, Exchange, Hyper-V, Active Directory, Remote Desktop, BitLocker, and numerous core operating system components.

Read more →

Two Actors, One Flaw: Gamaredon and UAC-0226 Leverage Delayed WinRAR Patching

Two Russia-aligned threat groups, Gamaredon and UAC-0226, are actively exploiting CVE-2025-8088, a high-severity WinRAR path traversal vulnerability, against Ukrainian government, military, and critical infrastructure organizations. Nearly a year after a patch was made available, both groups continued to operate unimpeded.

Read more →

Tracking Gafgyt C0XMO: How a New Malware Variant Spreads Across Platforms

A newly identified Gafgyt botnet variant, C0XMO, is actively targeting internet-exposed devices through a combination of vulnerability exploitation, weak-credential attacks, and automated lateral movement. Unlike traditional Gafgyt campaigns, C0XMO separates its propagation logic into a dedicated Python-based scanner, enabling it to compromise a wider range of architectures and device types while scaling infections more efficiently.

Read more →

CVE-2026-41089: Public PoC, Active Exploit Analysis, and Windows Netlogon Risk

Read more →

CVE-2026-41089: Windows Netlogon RCE - One-Packet CLDAP Attack, LSASS Crash, and Active Directory Risk

Read more →

CVE-2026-41089: Windows Netlogon Patch, IOCs, Detection, and Mitigation Guide

Read more →

HTTP/2 Bomb: How an AI Chained Two Decade-Old Techniques Into a Devastating Remote DoS

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote denial-of-service exploit that affects major web servers, including NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora. The vulnerability has been codenamed HTTP/2 Bomb.

Read more →

CVE-2026-41089: MITRE ATT&CK Mapping, SIEM Queries, and Domain Controller Hardening

Read more →

Showboat Emerges as New Linux Threat in Middle East Cyber Attacks

Read more →

What happens after Mythos finds a vulnerability?

AI-driven vulnerability discovery is getting attention because of Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos Preview. This raises a practical question: once a model like Mythos finds a vulnerability, what happens next?

Read more →

The Invisible Friction That Slows Down Enterprise Patching And Remediation

We looked at the gap between vulnerability discovery and enterprise action. Finding a vulnerability is important, but enterprise risk is reduced only when that vulnerability is understood, prioritized, remediated, and verified. That leads to the next question: if remediation is what reduces risk, why does it still move slowly in enterprises?

Read more →

The Shrinking Window Between Discovery and Exploitation

What happens after a vulnerability becomes known? Finding vulnerabilities faster is important, but from an enterprise point of view, it is only the beginning. A vulnerability reduces enterprise risk only when it can be turned into action.

Read more →

Deep Dive into FIRESTARTER: Persistent Backdoor on Cisco ASA & Firepower Devices

Modern cyber-espionage campaigns are increasingly shifting away from loud exploitation techniques and toward stealth-focused, persistence-driven operations that abuse trusted infrastructure. Rather than relying on chains of zero-day vulnerabilities or commodity malware, advanced threat actors are no...

Read more →

Prevention in the Age of AI Vulnerability Discovery

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview (Project Glasswing) has pushed a new question into the center of security discussions. Anthropic says Mythos has already identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure, and that in testing it was able to identify and exploit zero-day...

Read more →

Mirai Turns Unsupported D-Link Routers into DDoS Weapons Using CVE-2025-29635

Researchers have uncovered an active Mirai botnet campaign exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a command-injection vulnerability in legacy D-Link DIR-823X routers, to recruit internet-exposed devices into a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet. Attackers deploy a Mirai malware variant known as “tuxnok...

Read more →

Inside Nexcorium: How CVE-2024-3721 Fuels a New Wave of Mirai-Based DDoS Botnets

Researchers have uncovered an active IoT botnet campaign exploiting two known command-injection vulnerabilities to recruit surveillance cameras and home routers into a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) army. Dubbed Nexcorium, this new Mirai variant uses CVE-2024-3721, an OS command-injection flaw...

Read more →

Storm-1175 and Medusa Ransomware: Anatomy of a Rapid Multi-Exploit Intrusion

Threat actors are increasingly moving faster than ever in ransomware operations, shrinking the time between initial compromise and ransomware deployment to maximize impact before defenders can respond. Instead of relying on prolonged persistence, modern ransomware groups are rapidly exploiting newly...

Read more →