Hacktron has opened Hacktron Review for Open Source, giving qualifying open source projects its commercial pull-request security reviewer at no cost. The announcement argues that attackers use AI agents to hunt vulnerabilities at scale and to push malicious dependencies into open source. It cites CISA and VulnCheck data that median time-t…
F5 released NGINX 1.30.6 (stable) and 1.31.7 (mainline) on October 14, 2026 to fix five vulnerabilities. Three are memory-corruption bugs that F5 scores 9.2 (Critical) on CVSS v4.0, and they can crash a worker process or, in some conditions, allow code execution. The others are a TLS session-ticket flaw that can bypass client-certificate …
GreyNoise analyzed 147.8 million sessions over 103 days across 276 vendor-specific tags covering 18 network infrastructure vendors. It found that surges in scanning and exploitation activity regularly precede vendor advisories. Of 104 detected surges, 68 preceded a vendor-matched CVE (33 vulnerabilities across 16 vendor families), with a …
F5 Labs analyzed exploitation of CVE-2026-24423, a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail (CWE-306). CISA added it to the KEV catalog on February 2, 2026 and notes it has been used in ransomware campaigns. Despite public write-ups, F5 sensors saw only one IP, 193.24.123.58 (ASN 200593, Russian ISP …