Bleeping Computer

Metasploit 6.2.0 improves credential theft, SMB support features, more

Metasploit 6.2.0 has been released with 138 new modules, 148 new improvements/features, and 156 bug fixes since version 6.1.0 was released in August 2021. Metasploit is a penetration testing framework ...
Forbes

Privilege Escalation Threats: Fortifying Security With An Access Management Strategy

Geoffrey Mattson is the CEO of Xage Security, delivering zero-trust access and protection that’s easy to deploy, manage and use. In our increasingly digital world, companies managing information ...
Bleeping Computer

Latest Privilege Escalation news

CISA has added an actively exploited local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Client/Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS) to its list of bugs abused in the wild. Microsoft has fixed a ...
Dark Reading

Privilege Escalation Issue in Amazon ECS Leads to IAM Hijacking

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Thursday, Aug. 7 — A privilege escalation issue in Amazon's Elastic Container Service (ECS) could be used by an attacker to steal credentials and access other cloud ...
TechRepublic

privilege escalation

A high-severity Windows Admin Center vulnerability (CVE-2026-26119) could allow privilege escalation in enterprise environments. Here’s what to know and how to mitigate risk. Microsoft patches 58 ...
CSOonline

Microsoft privilege escalation issue forces the debate: ‘When is something a security hole?’

Fortra has announced what it dubs a Microsoft security hole. There is no dispute that the privilege escalation issue exists, but there is much argument over whether it’s a flaw. Security vendor Fortra ...