Stay updated on the latest in information security flaws. Explore news, insights, and analysis on vulnerabilities affecting digital safety.
Search across headline titles and summaries.
Background for this topic.
A flaw is a defect in software, hardware, system design, or configuration that causes unintended behavior. In security reporting, the term usually means a weakness that could violate confidentiality, integrity, or availability when reached through a particular interface, input, privilege, or operating condition. Not every flaw is exploitable, and exploitability depends on factors such as exposure, authentication requirements, affected versions, and available mitigations.
Flaws matter because they can create attack paths in applications, operating systems, devices, APIs, or administrative settings. Security teams assess their severity and exposure, prioritize remediation, apply patches or configuration changes, and use isolation or access controls when immediate fixes are unavailable. Code review, testing, vulnerability scanning, and monitoring can reveal flaws across the development and operational lifecycle. Reports should distinguish a confirmed vulnerability from a theoretical defect and provide enough technical detail to support validation without unnecessarily enabling exploitation.
Attackers Read Server Files and Steal Credentials in Gladinet CentreStack, TriofoxHackers are exploiting a flaw allowing them to access without authentication document root folder files in file-sharing and remote-access software, where they obtain access tokens and passwords to unlock remote access to corporate file systems, warn researchers.
Attackers Read Server Files and Steal Credentials in Gladinet CentreStack, TriofoxHackers are exploiting a flaw allowing them to access without authentication document root folder files in file-sharing and remote-access software, where they obtain access tokens and passwords to unlock remote access to corporate file systems, warn researchers.
Fortra on Thursday revealed the results of its investigation into CVE-2025-10035, a critical security flaw in GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) that's assessed to have come under active exploitation since at least September 11, 2025
Cybersecurity company Huntress said it has observed active in-the-wild exploitation of an unpatched security flaw impacting Gladinet CentreStack and TrioFox products
Dozens of organizations may have been impacted following the zero-day exploitation of a security flaw in Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) software since August 9, 2025, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant said in a new report released Thursday
Researcher Found Bug Could Exfiltrate Secrets Via Camo ImagesA now-patched flaw in GitHub Copilot Chat could have allowed attackers to steal private source code and secrets by embedding hidden prompts that hijacked the artificial intelligence assistant's responses. The exploit also used the code hosting platform's image proxy to leak the stolen data.
A new large-scale botnet called RondoDox is targeting 56 vulnerabilities in more than 30 distinct devices, including flaws first disclosed during Pwn2Own hacking competitions. [...]
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw impacting the Service Finder WordPress theme that makes it possible to gain unauthorized access to any account, including administrators, and take control of susceptible sites
Trend™ Research and ZDI Threat Hunters have identified a large-scale RondoDox botnet campaign exploiting over 50 vulnerabilities across more than 30 vendors, including flaws first seen in Pwn2Own contests.
We discovered Azure Storage Account credentials exposed in Axis Communications’ Autodesk Revit plugin, allowing unauthorized modification of cloud-hosted files. This exposure, combined with vulnerabilities in Autodesk Revit, could enable supply-chain attacks targeting end users.
Security Experts Advise Immediate Patching; Zero-Day Attacks Began Last MonthAffiliates of Russian-speaking ransomware operation Medusa began targeting a zero-day vulnerability in widely used Fortra GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer software one week before the vendor issued a security alert, patch and mitigation instructions for the flaw, say security experts.
Firm Deploys Claude for Staff, Refunds Australian Government Over AI ErrorsDeloitte will embed Anthropic's Claude across its workforce despite flaws in a report from a government client that its analysts produced work with the help of generative artificial intelligence, costing the company thousands of dollars.
Deploy Emergency Patch for Zero-Day Flaw, Hunt for Signs of Intrusion, Warn ExpertsOracle patched a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite and urged customers to immediately install the fix. The flaw has been exploited since August by the Clop ransomware group, and with exploit code now having leaked, experts expect to see many more attackers join the fray.
Researchers say exploitation of CVE-2025-10035 requires a private key, and it's unclear how Storm-1175 threat actors pulled this off.
A critical Redis flaw, dubbed “RediShell,” has exposed 60,000 unprotected servers to exploitation
This week, Google has launched an AI Vulnerability Reward Program dedicated to security researchers who find and report flaws in the company's AI systems. [...]
A 13-year-old flaw with a CVSS score of 10 in the popular data storage service allows for full host takeover, and more than 300k instances are currently exposed.
Redis has disclosed details of a maximum-severity security flaw in its in-memory database software that could result in remote code execution under certain circumstances
Microsoft on Monday attributed a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1175 to the exploitation of a critical security flaw in Fortra GoAnywhere software to facilitate the deployment of Medusa ransomware
CrowdStrike on Monday said it's attributing the exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite with moderate confidence to a threat actor it tracks as Graceful Spider (aka Cl0p), and that the first known exploitation occurred on August 9, 2025