SCAP Feed Release : 01-Mar-2019

CVE Research

CVE-2026-31431: From 732 Bytes to Root - Anatomy of a Modern Linux Privilege Escalation

CVE Research

CVE-2026-31431: The Nine-Year Kernel Bug Hiding in Plain Sight

CVE Research

Squidbleed: A 29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Flaw That Leaks Cleartext HTTP Requests

CVE Research

AryStinger Malware Leverages 4,300+ Legacy Routers to Establish Persistent Spy Infrastructure

AryStinger represents a calculated shift in IoT threat methodology, abandoning noisy, destructive payloads in favor of silent, long-term reconnaissance infrastructure. By exploiting unpatched, end-of-life routers and NAS devices through decade-old vulnerabilities, the threat operator has assembled a distributed fleet of over 4,300 Executor nodes capable of conducting parallelized DNS enumeration, port scanning, and service fingerprinting at scale, all while masking origin behind residential IP addresses. With active development ongoing and a potential operational timeline stretching back to 2024, AryStinger underscores a growing and underappreciated risk: forgotten edge hardware is not merely a compliance gap but exploitable infrastructure.