Ravie LakshmananJun 01, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking
Monday hit like a cron job with anger issues.
A busted auth path here, a repo-side faceplant there, some "patched-ish" thing already getting chewed on in the wild, and then the usual bonus round: poisoned dev tools, sketchy forum chatter, phishing kits pretending to be productivity, and AI lowering the bar for people who already thought 'curl | sh' had a personality.
The vibe is simple: old bugs, new wrappers, faster abuse. Patch the obvious crap first. Then read the rest.
PAN-OS GlobalProtect Authentication Bypass Under Exploitation - Palo Alto Networks warned that a recently disclosed medium-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), refers to a case of authentication bypass that could be exploited by bad actors to set up VPN connections. The issue specifically affects firewalls with GlobalProtect portal or gateway configured when authentication override cookies are enabled and a specific certificate configuration exists, the network security company said.
