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HIGHJul 10, 2026Laser Attack Resets Tangem Wallet Passwords on Unpatchable CardsLedger’s Donjon security team demonstrated a laser fault injection attack that can reset Tangem crypto wallet card passwords. A precisely timed laser pulse aimed at the chip allows an attacker to set...HIGHJul 10, 2026Dell BIOS Passwords Recoverable Due to Weak XOR Encryption (CVE-2026-40639)A joint discovery by MDSec and AmberWolf revealed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-40639) in Dell BIOS password storage. Dell stores BIOS administrator passwords using weak XOR encryption, allowing recovery from the SPI flash....MEDIUMJun 21, 2026OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications: A Testing GuideFORTBRIDGE has released a comprehensive guide for testing the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities specifically for LLM applications. This guide details how to test for each of the ten critical risks, including Prompt...MEDIUMJun 17, 2026Black Box Probing: Security Analysis of Xiaomi's MJA1 Secure ChipQuarkslab conducted a black-box security analysis of Xiaomi’s proprietary MJA1 secure chip, used in their cameras to protect sensitive data. Lacking public documentation, researchers reverse-engineered the chip through hardware identification, I2C sniffing,...MEDIUMJun 17, 2026FreeBSoD: Leveraging Language Models to Find and Exploit Kernel BugsPraetorian’s research, ‘FreeBSoD’, demonstrates how language models like Claude Code (Opus 4.6) can be leveraged to discover and exploit kernel bugs in FreeBSD. This work is part of building Constantine, an automated...HIGHJun 15, 2026Zombie COTables: Resurrecting Freed Memory to Escape VirtualBox Severity: HIGH HIGHJun 14, 2026Four Methods for Azure Storage Ransomware Identified by Datadog Security Labs Severity: HIGH HIGHJun 12, 2026China-Linked Hackers Backdoored Linux Login Software for Decade-Long Persistence Severity: HIGH HIGHJun 12, 2026Factoring 'Short-Sleeve' RSA Keys with Polynomials Severity: HIGH