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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/117315299719177302

Important: We have learned that this vulnerability has been exploited.

Poland's CERT has published its report on MikroTrik, the zero-day campaign that targeted MikroTik routers earlier this month

Praises LLM agents for helping with the research

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/09/mikrotrick-technical-analysis/

My panic!() messages start to degrade to the quality of my commit messages

@dymaxion @kaoudis You are right, and now I think here lies the solution: with pentests you want priorities based on how an external party sees your system. Does this make sense?

(having to think about these things shows how much time passed since I started doing pentesting...)

It's so good to see this in the MIT Tech Review. Let's hope the message gets through. 🤞Big props to @timnitGebru & @emilymbender for putting such a fine point on things!

"Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own. Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/

@dymaxion @kaoudis I guess back in the day this was about workforce distribution? People with pentest skills usually didn't work at places that required them + project distribution didn't justify hiring? There is also a conflict of interest if a person with pentest skills also works on the system under test.

[RSS] CVE-2026-78902: XSS to RCE in pfSense with one DNS request

https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/web-application-pentesting/cve-2026-78902-xss-to-rce-in-pfsense-with-one-dns-request/

"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."

[RSS] How One Twitch Chat Message Became Code Execution on a Streamer's PC

https://blog.scrt.ch/2026/09/22/how-one-twitch-chat-message-became-code-execution-on-a-streamers-pc/

The Irish Presidency of the EU has proposed member states to allow AI companies unfettered access to the data of EU citizens.

According to leaked docs, the proposal would effectively exempt AI companies from any of the GDPR rules and deny EU citizens data protection rights

https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-plan-digital-expropriation-europeans-interest-ai-companies

Everyone ready to vote for the fattest bears? Who are your picks for the 2026 competition?

I'm voting 910!

https://katmaiconservancy.org/fatbearweek

Veeam Agent LPE PoC https://github.com/suce0155/CVE-2026-32996

Can gzip be a language model?

https://nathan.rs/posts/gzip-lm/

Woops:

* https://mobeta.fr/blog/vcenter-cve-2026-59309-cve-2026-59310/

#threatintel, #vmware

A first public side-channel attack on the Arm CryptoCell-310.

Our latest blog post walks through the full methodology: EM signal analysis, a collision-correlation attack, and full AES key recovery.

Read it here: https://www.eshard.com/blog/side-channel-analysis-arm-cryptocell-310-aes

#SCA #HARdware #CYBERsecurity #ARM #ARM64 #SCA

[Commercial, since it involved my company] Two of my friends - Jarosław Jedynak and Michał Leszczyński - are doing a webinar on Kubernetes hacking tomorrow, with live demos and stuff. It's free, but you do have to sign up to hackArcana's newsletter:

https://hackarcana.com/workshop-session/2026-Q4-k8s/intro-webinar

It's funny how WinDbg's TTD docs[1] emphasizes that PII may appear in dumps, while e.g. docs for crash dump analysis[2] don't.

Based on the observation that behind every warning sign there is a story I suspect that at one point a TTD trace somehow resulted in summoning MS's legal team :)

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debuggercmds/time-travel-debugging-overview
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dxtecharts/crash-dump-analysis

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Today's xkcd is especially unhinged, love it!

https://xkcd.com/3301/