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Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 30 of the year 2026
14+ hour, 21+ min ago (225+ words) From Linux » Distributions To this thirtieth (30th) week of the year 2026 (19/07/26 to 25/07/26) in the LinuxverseWe offer you our timely and customary weekly summary of the news contained in the various News about the release of distributions based on Linux, BSD and…...
Fake Notepad++ Plugin Hides Russian Malware Targeting Ukrainian Defense Teams
10+ hour, 28+ min ago (449+ words) That second archive contains four components: The VBScript extracts all components into a randomly named directory and then launches Notepad++. The editor, executing normally, loads NppExport.dll automatically through its intended plugin-loading mechanism. No additional user interaction is required. The…...
Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray": All the New Features So Far
10+ hour, 29+ min ago (1443+ words) Every two years, Canonical puts out a Long Term Support release that gets five years of security updates, which can be stretched further with Ubuntu Pro. In between those LTS releases, Canonical ships an interim version every six months, and…...
US Agencies Warn of Laundry Bear Campaign Targeting Unpatched Zimbra Servers
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (484+ words) U.S. CISA adds Microsoft SharePoint and Check Point SmartConsole flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Chaos ransomware deploys browser-based msaRAT to evade network detection Google Released Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI, a Specialized AI Model for Vulnerability Hunting Adobe Acrobat Chrome…...
Notepad++ used in new stealthy attacks targeting Ukraine
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (252+ words) SC Media Notepad++ used in new stealthy attacks targeting Ukraine As outlined in Bleeping Computer, Ukrainian CERT has identified a new cyber campaign that leverages the legitimate Notepad++ application to distribute malware and establish persistence on victim systems. The attacks…...
Linux XFS has a decade-old race condition allowing full root access
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (566+ words) Linux systems using the XFS filesystem suffer from a race condition that could enable an unprivileged local user to gain full root access. The flaw affects systems with Linux kernel 4.11 or later that have enabled the XFS feature reflink, which…...
Ubuntu snap-confine Race Condition Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (371+ words) Ubuntu systems are at risk from a new local privilege escalation vulnerability in snap-confine, which could enable any local user to gain full root access on certain desktop installations. Qualys researchers discovered a race condition in snap-confine, the helper program…...
Aptos Labs Issues Urgent Hotfix for Mainnet Nodes
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (403+ words) Aptos Labs has released a critical hotfix, version v1.48.4, for its Aptos Node software on Mainnet. This urgent update requires validators and fullnodes to upgrade immediately to maintain network stability and security. The hotfix was made available via GitHub on July…...
Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Lets Any Local User Gain Full Root Access
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (337+ words) A newly disclosed local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu’s snap-confine component allows any unprivileged local user to obtain full root access on default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04. Tracked as CVE-2026-8933, the flaw was discovered by the Qualys Threat Research…...
New RefluXFS Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (621+ words) Critical wp2shell WordPress flaws exploited to install webshells Microsoft shares manual fix for WSUS sync delays and timeouts SonicWall SMA1000 flaws exploited as zero-days to push custom malware FedRAMP Rev5 Is Ending: What the 20x Transition Really Requires EU fines Google $1 billion for search,…...