{"id":238441,"date":"2026-05-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/week-in-review-high-severity-lpe-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernel-cpanel-0-day-exploited-for-months\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:25:07","slug":"week-in-review-high-severity-lpe-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernel-cpanel-0-day-exploited-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/week-in-review-high-severity-lpe-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernel-cpanel-0-day-exploited-for-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Week in review: High-severity LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel, cPanel 0-day exploited for months"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week in review: High-severity LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel, cPanel 0-day exploited for months<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2026\/05\/03\/week-in-review-high-severity-lpe-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernel-cpanel-0-day-exploited-for-months\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-03 04:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.helpnetsecurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an overview of some of last week\u2019s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms<\/strong>
Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card post a task and pay a stranger to complete it. The RentAHuman platform extends that model to AI agents through a Model Context Protocol server, allowing an agent to post gigs directly. Listed tasks include attending in-person meetings, photographing locations, delivering items, and surveying physical sites.<\/p>\n

Even cybersecurity researchers are exposing secrets in their arXiv LaTeX source<\/strong>
Researchers submit papers to arXiv daily, often including LaTeX source files alongside PDFs. About 93% of submissions contain these files, which may include drafts, comments, figures, and leftover project data. A study from RWTH Aachen University, to be presented at the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, analyzed 2.7 million arXiv submissions since 1991. It found that 88% contained material not intended for public release.<\/p>\n

Open-source IPFire DNS Firewall blocks malware and phishing at the resolver<\/strong>
The IPFire project shipped Core Update 201 for its 2.29 release line, bringing DNS-layer domain blocking into the open-source firewall distribution. The update replaces two components that many IPFire operators had paired with the system for years, the built-in URL Filter and external Pi-hole deployments, by handling blocklist enforcement directly inside the firewall\u2019s DNS proxy.<\/p>\n

US state privacy fines reached $3.425 billion in 2025<\/strong>
State privacy regulators across the United States collected $3.425 billion in privacy-related fines from companies in 2025. Gartner said the upward trend is expected to accelerate through 2028. Annual cumulative fines stood at $1.827 billion in 2024, putting the 2025 result at nearly double the previous year\u2019s level.<\/p>\n

The Exchange Online security controls organizations keep getting wrong<\/strong>
In this Help Net Security interview, Scott…<\/p>\n

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