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CVE-2026-68820 Turns a Windows Foothold Into SYSTEM

Red exploit path crossing a Windows network-driver layer into a privileged kernel core

Microsoft’s August 2026 updates fix a WinSock privilege-escalation flaw used by North Korea’s Lazarus group against defence, aerospace and aviation organisations. The exploit helped Operation Dream Job turn a local Windows foothold into SYSTEM access, deploy a kernel rootkit and interfere with endpoint-security controls.

The 40-something IT-manager is not a security control!

When criminals stop attacking infrastructure and start applying pressure to the people who run it, cybersecurity becomes a question of leadership, duty of care and organisational design. Editor’s note: This article was inspired by “Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head…

TONTOU Finds a New Timing Gap in Spectre v2 Defences

TONTOU Finds a New Timing Gap in Spectre v2 Defences

MIT researchers demonstrated that branch-predictor defences can be re-poisoned in the brief interval between being cleared and being used. This is a local attack, not a drive-by remote compromise. At Black Hat USA on 6 August, MIT researchers Daniël Trujillo…