New from Nightmare-Eclipse, we have MiniPlasma

Works reliably to get a SYSTEM cmd.exe prompt on Win11 (including 26H1) with May's updates. Is reportedly a failure to properly fix CVE-2020-17103. I'll note that it does not seem to work on the latest Insider Preview Canary Windows 11.

We're back for the final day of #Pwn2Own Berlin! Yesterday we ended the day with $908,750 awarded, 39 unique 0-days, and DEVCORE with a commanding lead for Master of Pwn. What's in store for today? Follow along for live results! #P2OBerlin

Aaaand it's official! Orange Tsai (@orange_8361) of DEVCORE Research Team chained 3 bugs to achieve Remote Code Execution as SYSTEM on Microsoft Exchange, earning a whooping $200,000 and 20 Master of Pwn points. Full win! #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

They: "On a scale from 1 to 10: How lazy are you?"

Me: Using copy fail instead of sudo to gain root to avoid having to type my password

#copyfail #linux #cybersecurity

Has anyone ENCHANTED any cool WEAPONS lately?

Fast Travel

Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/050.html

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

It's official! Kentaro Kawane of GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae chained 2 Use-After-Free bugs to escalate privileges on Microsoft Windows 11 in the third round, earning $15,000 and 3 Master of Pwn points. #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

Calif demonstrates a not-yet-fixed data-only macOS kernel LPE. MIE, which is available on M5 Macs, does not thwart the attack.
https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption

Yesterday I attended the first Democratic Tech Alliance (DTA) Assembly over at the European Parliament. The DTA is a political/think tank/civil society/industry initiative that hopes to foster a tech-ecosystem on which we can continue to run our European democracies. Because it is not looking good. Useful progress was made, and here is what I learned: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/democratic-tech-alliance-may-2026/

In a video highlight from Day 1 of #Pwn2Own Berlin, Orange Tsai of the DEVCORE Research Team takes on Microsoft Edge with a sandbox escape! He earns $175,000 and 17.5 Master of Pwn points. https://youtube.com/shorts/8ngMzEVrdVs?feature=share

Nice work! Angelboy & TwinkleStar03 (@scwuaptx & @_twinklestar03) of DEVCORE Research Team + DEVCORE Internship Program was able to exploit Microsoft Windows 11! If confirmed, they win $30,000 and 3 Master of Pwn points. They're off to the disclosure room to explain how they did it. #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

I worked at a fairly big tech co years before the AI boom. People did large scale refractoring across huge code bases back then. With refactoring tools. And properly written robots.

Applying changes to code at scale, opening PRs automatically, basic interaction with human reviewers, making sure tests pass, getting things merged when ready. All that already existed before LLMs. And it was actually reliable and not capable of hallucinating terrible things.

It's like we've forgotten how to automate things without LLMs and openclaw now...

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze! Orange Tsai of DEVCORE Research Team was able to exploit Edge with a sandbox escape! If confirmed, we wins $175K. He's off to the disclosure room to explain how he did it. #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

Boom! Valentina Palmiotti wastes no time kicking off #Pwn2Own Berlin in style. She requires just a few second to get code execution on the NV Container Toolkit. She heads off to the disclosure room to provide all the details.

I have published #Diaphora 3.4.0. Now you can install it in IDA by just running this:

$ hcli plugin install diaphora

https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora/releases/tag/3.4.0

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html

Google replaces your PC mouse with yelling at Gemini

‘reimagining’ the mouse pointer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSWCWnLMj-U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260513-google-replaces-your-mouse-with-yelling-at-gemini - podcast

time: 5 min 38 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/13/google-replaces-your-pc-mouse-with-yelling-at-gemini/ - blog post