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A Disgruntled Researcher Just Handed Every Attacker a Free Windows Privilege Escalation Exploit

John Z Black Apr 7, 2026

Vulnerabilities & Patching #windows #zero-day #privilege-escalation #bluehammer #exploit #microsoft #msrc

A frustrated researcher publicly released BlueHammer, a working Windows privilege escalation zero-day, after clashing with Microsoft's disclosure process.

Apple Is Literally Warning Millions of iPhone Users: You're Being Attacked Right Now

John Z Black Mar 28, 2026

Vulnerabilities & Patching #apple #ios #iphone #exploit #coruna #darksword #lockdown-mode #mobile-security #consumer

Apple pushed lock screen alerts to millions of iPhones warning of active attacks from the Coruna and DarkSword exploit kits -- and some users have no patch path at all.

The iPhone Exploit That Won't Die: Operation Triangulation's Code Is Back and More Dangerous

John Z Black Mar 27, 2026

Threat Intelligence #ios #iphone #exploit #mobile-security #triangulation #kaspersky #zero-click

Exploit code from the 2023 Operation Triangulation campaign lives inside Coruna, a new iOS attack framework hitting modern iPhones in mass attacks. Elite nation-state code is now being aimed at everyone.

AI Found Thousands of Software Bugs This Month. Then It Wrote Exploits.

John Z Black Mar 10, 2026

AI & Security #ai-security #vulnerability-research #firefox #openssh #chromium #anthropic #openai #exploit

Anthropic's Claude found 22 Firefox zero-days in two weeks and wrote working exploits for two of them. OpenAI's Codex flagged over 10,000 high-severity bugs across major open-source projects. AI-powered vulnerability research isn't theoretical anymore.