📢 Positive Hack Talks is heading back to India 🇮🇳!
📍 Goa
📅 December 10, 2026
Free in-person hacker event: talks, CTF with a $1,000 prize pool, villages and 10-min community stand-ups. Everyone's welcome!
CFP & attendee registration now open ⬇️
phtalks.pt.community/goa
🍏 Fresh LPE in macOS: Repair Permissions - Get Root!
CVE-2026-43783 found by our researcher Ilya Andr (@andrd3v) has been recently fixed by Apple. A single XPC request to DesktopServicesHelper lets you chown any path on disk - straight to root.
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ptswarm.com/blog/cve-2026-43…
⚡ IPAHound has received an important update!
Now we support BloodHound CE. You can use the "-O" collector flag to output in OpenGraph format.
We have prepared neo4j queries directly in the object descriptions for easy analysis of the FreeIPA graph.
github.com/IPAHound/IPAHound
🐘 PHP PDO layer exposed! Aleksey Solovev & Nikita Sveshnikov uncovered 2 flaws: SQL Injection in pdo_firebird (CVE-2025-14179) and DoS in PDO via pdo_pgsql (CVE-2025-14180).
swarm.ptsecurity.com/hack-th…
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👨🏻💻 Did you know that it’s possible to perform RCE in Internet Explorer via clickjacking? Igor Sak-Sakovsky's (@Psych0tr1a) new article will explain how!
swarm.ptsecurity.com/the-cli…
🐘 PHP JPEG bugs: how image parsing leads to memory corruption.
Our researcher Nikita Sveshnikov discovered two JPEG-related memory-safety bugs in PHP’s ext/standard: CVE-2025-14177 in getimagesize and a heap buffer overflow in iptcembed.
swarm.ptsecurity.com/hack-th…
🧑🚒 Our researcher Mikhail Sukhov shares his knowledge and experience in analyzing FreeIPA environments.
He also introduces his new tool, IPAHound 💪
Go ’n see the details ➡️ swarm.ptsecurity.com/thinkin…
📢 Positive Hack Talks is heading to Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾!
📍 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
🗓 May 5, 2026
Join us for a free in-person hacker event — everyone’s welcome!
CFP & attendee registration now open ⬇️
phtalks.ptsecurity.com/kuala…
🐘 Attack arithmetic: how an integer overflow in PostgreSQL libpq leads to denial of service.
Our researcher Aleksey Solovev discovered the vulnerability CVE-2025-12818, which may cause a product using the libpq PostgreSQL library to crash.
swarm.ptsecurity.com/attack-…
🚨 Our researcher Alexander Zhurnakov identified two vulnerabilities in Dell Wyse Management Suite prior to version 5.5.
In certain configurations, they can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution.
Upgrade now → dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us…
🏆Two of our research articles are shortlisted for PortSwigger's Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025 poll!
1⃣ Impossible XXE in PHP
2⃣ Blind trust: what is hidden behind the process of creating your PDF file?
Last day to vote if you found them useful!
portswigger.net/polls/top-10…
📞 Microsoft fixed an authenticated RCE in Windows Telephony Service (CVE-2026-20931), discovered by our researcher Sergey Bliznyuk @justbronzebee
Read the write-up: swarm.ptsecurity.com/whos-on…
📑 A new article from our researchers Aleksey Solovev, Nikita Sveshnikov and Vladimir Razov — "Blind trust: what is hidden behind the process of creating your PDF file?".
swarm.ptsecurity.com/blind-t…
📱 New article by our researcher @Fi5t: Injection for an athlete.
Read about a vulnerability discovered in the Garmin Connect mobile application:
swarm.ptsecurity.com/injecti…
🌎 Positive Hack Talks lands in Brazil 🇧🇷!
📍 São Paulo
🗓️ Dec 10, 2025
REMINDER: PHT is a fun and free cybersec event, see last pics: phtalks.ptsecurity.com/saopa…
⬆️ Register to attend or speak. Vamos!
New article by @a13xp0p0v: "Kernel-hack-drill and a new approach to exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel."
Alexander used his pet project kernel-hack-drill to exploit a hard race condition that received the Pwnie Award 2025.
swarm.ptsecurity.com/kernel-…
🚨 We've launched dbugs.ptsecurity.com, a new home for vulnerabilities. More than CVEs. More than MITRE.
✅ Trends & Insights
✅ AI-generated, multi-source vulnerability descriptions
✅ Researcher credits
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Follow the project: @ptdbugs
👑 Our researcher has discovered LPE in VMWare Tools (CVE-2025-22230 & CVE-2025-22247) via VGAuth!
Write-up by the one who broke it: Sergey Bliznyuk (@justbronzebee)
swarm.ptsecurity.com/the-gue…















