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Microsoft Exchange zero-day hits unpatched servers
Microsoft Exchange zero-day under active exploitation. What failed, why vendor trust is a perimeter control, and what operators must do now.
Microsoft sent you a code you didn't request
An unrequested Microsoft single-use code email is evidence of external interaction with your identity surface. What it proves and what it does not.
MiniPlasma PoC hands attackers SYSTEM on Windows
Public PoC for the MiniPlasma Windows flaw yields SYSTEM execution. What the local privilege boundary failure means for endpoint control posture.
npm registry shipped 314 compromised packages
314 npm packages were compromised because the consumer install path does not verify publisher identity. The boundary failed at install, not registry.
npm was never a trust boundary
Technical analysis of the Shai-Hulud npm supply chain attack hitting 314 packages including echarts-for-react, size-sensor, and timeago.js.
Shai-Hulud worm compromises 314 npm packages
Shai-Hulud npm worm hits 314 more packages via compromised maintainer accounts. Mechanism, telemetry gaps, and residual exposure analyzed.
Six thousand fuel gauges answer every stranger
Six thousand exposed fuel gauges are not a vulnerability. They are a trust model that outlived the wire it was built on.
Sub-JEPA tightens the prediction signal
Sub-JEPA is a small loss-side fix to LeCun's world models that consistently improves performance. Here's how it works, where it fails, and why it matters.
The agency was the breach.
A US cybersecurity agency published digital keys to a public GitHub repository. The exposure defines the failure class. Recovery requires rotation.
The disassembler is now a free download
An open source disassembler and decompiler release removes the cost filter defenders implicitly priced into attacker capability. The model needs correction.
The IIS virtual directory that won't stop bleeding
Technical analysis of the Exchange Server zero-day, the frontend-to-backend trust boundary it abuses, and what fires in EDR and IIS telemetry.
The patch shipped. The install didn't.
Microsoft confirmed Windows 11 security updates are failing to install. Patch state is now a claim, not a measurement. Verify out-of-band.