RedHook Android malware now uses Wireless ADB for shell access

A new version of the RedHook Android malware abuses the Android Wireless Debugging (Wireless ADB) mechanism in a novel way to ...

Security News This Week: AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.
SecurityWeek

Proof-of-Concept Exploit Released for Linux ‘Bad Epoll’ Root Access Vulnerability

Exploit for "Bad Epoll" Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2026-46242) can lead to root access on desktops, servers, and Android ...
Bleeping Computer

Mandiant reveals how Cisco SD-WAN zero-day attacks gained root access

New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices. The ...
IEEE

Efficiently Supporting Attribute-Based Access Control in Linux

Abstract: Linux is a widely used multi-user operating system with applications ranging from personal desktop to commercial heavy duty web servers. It has built-in security features based on ...