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PIYUSH KUMAWAT ยท November 12, 2026

GitHub Actions Secret Stealer (wfx): Hunt, Rotate, Harden

The November 2026 wfx campaign used 4,800+ stolen GitHub accounts to probe 64k+ repos and run a CI secret stealer in 1,800+โ€ฆ

PIYUSH KUMAWAT ยท November 5, 2026

OpenSSH Password Bypass on Alpine (CVE-2026-123158)

A 300-character password logs into Alpine accounts that have no password. CVE-2026-123158 explained, reproduced in a lab, and fixed: who is affected,โ€ฆ

PIYUSH KUMAWAT ยท October 26, 2026

October 2026 Patch Audit: PHP2Shell, GitLab, Node, LiteLLM

You patched in October. Prove it took: one read-only script that checks PHP2Shell, both GitLab CVSS 10s, Node.js and LiteLLM 1.107.0 onโ€ฆ

PIYUSH KUMAWAT ยท August 25, 2026

The CVE Flood Is a Lie: How to Hunt When AI Dumps 36% More Bugs But Exploitation Only Grows 10%

Your vulnerability scanner ran overnight. Your inbox has 47 new CVE alerts. Slack is pinging you about a “critical” flaw in aโ€ฆ

PIYUSH KUMAWAT ยท July 17, 2026

Is AI Killing Bug Bounty? What the 2026 CVE Flood Really Means for Hunters

Ask any bug bounty hunter how 2026 is going and you will get one of two answers. Either “I have never foundโ€ฆ

PIYUSH KUMAWAT ยท July 12, 2026

Actively Exploited CVEs in June 2026: A Practical Patch-Now Briefing (SimpleHelp, Citrix, ColdFusion, Defender)

June 2026 was a brutal month for anyone who runs internet-facing infrastructure. A run of critical, actively-exploited vulnerabilities landed one after another,โ€ฆ