Splunk is a cornerstone of many security and operations teams, trusted to ingest, index, and analyze machine data across the enterprise. That trust makes any vulnerability in Splunk especially consequential. In February 2026 Splunk disclosed a high-severity Windows-specific vulnerability (CVE-2026-20140) that allows a low-privileged local user to perform a DLL search-order hijacking attack and gain SYSTEM-level privileges. The mechanics are
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Guardian of the Red Team: How Guardian Orchestrates Gemini, GPT-4 and 19 Top Security Tools for Smarter Pentesting
Guardian is an open-source, AI-driven penetration testing framework that leverages multiple large language models to automate intelligent, evidence-backed security assessments. Designed for enterprise use, it combines a multi-agent architecture with a broad toolset to accelerate reconnaissance, triage, and reporting while preserving human oversight. What is Guardian? Guardian is an AI-powered penetration testing automation framework developed by Zakir Kun and available
Chrome 0‑Day Under Active Attack: CVE‑2026‑2441 — What You Need to Do Now
Google has released an emergency patch for a high‑severity zero‑day in Chrome after confirming active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE‑2026‑2441, the vulnerability is a use‑after‑free bug in Chrome’s CSS handling that can enable remote code execution when a user visits crafted web content. How the flaw works CVE‑2026‑2441 arises from improper lifecycle management of objects in the rendering
Windows 11 KB5077181 Update Triggers Restart Loop on Some Devices — What You Need to Know
Microsoft’s February 10, 2026 security update KB5077181 for Windows 11 (notably reported on affected 24H2 builds) has been linked to a troubling issue on a subset of systems: devices repeatedly restarting in an infinite loop after applying the patch. If your PC is caught in this cycle, or you manage endpoints in an organization and are seeing similar behavior, here’s
When Money Talks and Machines Mimic: Ransomware, Extortion, and the AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity
The landscape of cyber threats has shifted decisively toward financially motivated crime. Extortion and ransomware now drive more than half of attacks with known motivations, as opportunistic criminal groups scale operations with automated tooling and AI. Speed, automation, and deception combine to inflict outsized damage on vulnerable organizations and public services. Why extortion and ransomware dominate Ransomware and extortion target
Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropic’s powerful model for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows is now available in Microsoft Foundry
Claude Opus 4.6 represents a clear evolution in applying frontier language models to mission-critical enterprise workloads. By combining Anthropic’s latest reasoning and long-context capabilities with Microsoft Foundry’s governance, identity, and operational controls, organizations can transition from isolated experiments to production-grade, agent-driven systems. This release is significant because it is not merely about raw model performance; it is about enabling sustained,