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Legacy VNC Login on macOS Screen Sharing Could Hand Attackers a Root Shell

17 August 2026  |  dark6  |  Vulnerability

Researchers found that macOS's Screen Sharing service kept its file-transfer helpers running as root even when a session was authenticated with nothing more than a shared VNC password....

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State-Sponsored Hackers Exploit Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Zero-Day to Gain Root Access

25 June 2026  |  dark6  |  Vulnerability

A state-sponsored threat actor exploited zero-day CVE-2026-20245 in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to gain root access via a malicious CSV upload. The multi-phase intrusion also leveraged two CVSS...

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