Cybersecurity, AI, etc.
What Happened A critical local privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431, dubbed “Copy Fail,” has been disclosed and is under active exploitation across major Linux distributions. The flaw allows any…
Summary CISA has added four actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, with a federal remediation deadline of May 8, 2026. The additions target flaws in SimpleHelp…
Summary OpenAI has begun deploying GPT-5.5-Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused variant of its latest model, through a new “Trusted Access for Cyber” (TAC) program. CEO Sam Altman announced on April 30th that…
Summary Nozomi Networks Labs has disclosed a chain of three vulnerabilities in the widely-used CODESYS Control runtime that, when exploited together, allow attackers to gain root-level control over industrial devices.…
Summary The Pentagon announced agreements on May 1st with seven leading technology companies — SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection — to deploy their AI capabilities…