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IncidentWhat Happened The Snyk Research Team discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Grunt, a widely-used JavaScript task runner that automates development tasks. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-7
IncidentWhat Happened In 2020, security researcher po6ix discovered a prototype pollution vulnerability in express-fileupload, a Node.js package for handling file uploads. Snyk confirmed the finding and assig
IncidentWhat happened On March 11th, 2020, Snyk disclosed CVE-2020-7598 , a prototype pollution vulnerability in minimist, an npm package that parses command-line arguments. The package sees roughly 1 million
IncidentOn June 7, attackers sent 4 million requests through a single unauthenticated REST API endpoint in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin. By that point, the vulnerability had been public for nearly three
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IncidentA Major Shift in Security Priorities On September 24, 2021, OWASP released an updated Top 10 list that significantly altered the landscape of security priorities. SQL injection, which had long been a
IncidentA malicious web page executing arbitrary code on your development machine through your AI agent—that s exactly what Microsoft researchers discovered in AutoGen Studio s pre-release builds. The AutoJac
IncidentWhat Happened CVE-2026-4020 , a vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin, allows unauthenticated attackers to extract API keys and SMTP configuration data through a broken access control fla
IncidentOn January 9, 2025, attackers compromised the npm account of a Mastra AI maintainer and published malicious updates to over 140 packages. Microsoft attributes the attack to Sapphire Sleet, a North Kor
IncidentF5 disclosed two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in NGINX Open Source on January 14, 2025. Both CVE-2026-42530 and CVE-2026-42055 carry CVSS v4 scores of 9.2. If your team is running NG
IncidentYour security information and event management (SIEM) platform should detect intrusions, not enable them. However, in June 2026, organizations running unpatched Splunk Enterprise found themselves in a
IncidentWhat Happened Varonis Threat Labs revealed a prompt injection attack against Microsoft M365 Copilot Enterprise that exposed internal corporate data through manipulated URL parameters. The attack, call
IncidentA vulnerability fix in a widely-used Golang JWT package was never merged into the version most developers used. This oversight left projects exposed to authentication bypass, despite the existence of
IncidentWhat Happened Novo Nordisk experienced a security breach when an attacker accessed its systems through a leaked GitHub token. This token, a credential for automated systems to interact with the compan
IncidentWhat Happened Your developers store credentials on their laptops. Git history, environment files, configuration snippets, and API keys are all vulnerable on machines that connect to public WiFi, run u
IncidentWhat Happened F5 released emergency security patches for critical vulnerabilities in NGINX web server modules. Two vulnerabilities—CVE-2026-42530 and CVE-2026-42055—allow unauthenticated remote attack
IncidentOn June 17, 2026, Sonatype researchers identified a supply chain attack targeting the Mastra AI framework. The attacker published a malicious npm package named easy-day-js , designed to mimic the popu
