Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

NightmareEclipse Says Mitigation Can Exhaust Disk Space, Crash AppsMicrosoft's patch for CVE-2026-50656, known as RoguePlanet, has sparked fresh criticism after researcher NightmareEclipse alleged the mitigation can exhaust disk space, crash applications and leak memory, extending a months-long dispute over Microsoft's handling of multiple zero-day disclosures.

Investment to Scale Engineering, Expansion from Data Deletion to Threat ReductionExecutive digital protection firm 360 Privacy raised $36 million to expand its engineering team and boost its ability to remove sensitive data from brokers. The company is shifting from a data deletion focus to broader threat mitigation, tackling risks from digital tracking and location data leaks.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what they say is the "first native Spectre v2 exploit" against the Linux kernel on Intel systems that could be exploited to read sensitive data from the memory

With speculative execution attacks remaining a stubbornly persistent vulnerability ailing modern processors, new research has highlighted an "industry failure" to adopting mitigations released by AMD and Intel, posing a firmware supply chain threat

Researchers have disclosed a new technique that could be used to circumvent existing hardware mitigations in modern processors from Intel, AMD, and Arm and stage speculative execution attacks such as Spectre to leak sensitive information from host memory