Universal Local Privilege Escalation in the Linux Kernel Executive summary On May 7, 2026, researcher Hyunwoo Kim (alias @v4bel) publicly disclosed a new class of Linux kernel vulnerabilities named Dirty Frag (1) (2). This disclosure, brought forward as a result of an embargo break by an unrelated third party, exposes an exploitation chain combining two…
Executive summary On 2 October 2025, the extortion group Crimson Collective announced on Telegram that it had compromised Red Hat Consulting’s private Git repositories. Reports indicate that the attackers stole approximately 570 GB of compressed data from around 28 000 internal repositories. Among the stolen files were Customer Engagement Reports (CERs), which contain architecture diagrams, configuration details, authentication tokens and network maps. The leak…
