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    Astra Cloud Vulnerability Scanner: Validation-First Cloud Security

    Astra’s new Cloud Vulnerability Scanner promises to turn noisy cloud posture data into actionable, validated risk by combining continuous, agentless discovery with an “offensive‑grade” validation engine that attempts exploit paths and confirms whether reported misconfigurations and weaknesses...
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    Cobalt Strike 4.12 Update: REST API, UDC2, UAC Bypasses, and New Injection Primitives

    Cobalt Strike 4.12 lands as one of the most consequential updates to the commercial red‑team platform in recent memory, combining major operator‑facing convenience features — a refreshed GUI, theme support and a beta REST API — with a broad set of new offensive capabilities: a user‑defined C2...
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    Kali Linux 2025.2 Review: Advanced Penetration Testing with MITRE ATT&CK Integration

    The latest release of Kali Linux, version 2025.2, is more than just an incremental update; it’s a bold stride in both functionality and focus, recalibrating the system’s interface, platform support, and arsenal of pentesting tools to reinforce its status as a mainstay for professional red teams...
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    Windows 11 Hackers Demonstrate Zero-Day Exploits at Pwn2Own Berlin 2025

    Here’s a summary of what happened, based on your Forbes excerpt and forum highlights: What Happened at Pwn2Own Berlin 2025? On the first day, Windows 11 was successfully hacked three separate times by elite security researchers using zero-day exploits (vulnerabilities unknown to the vendor)...
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    Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 Reveals Critical Enterprise Security Vulnerabilities

    When the doors opened on the first day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, few could have predicted just how quickly and decisively some of the world’s most widely used enterprise operating systems would fall to the creative might of leading security researchers. Within hours, Windows 11 and Red Hat...
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    BlueHat Prize: And now the fun begins

    The entry window for the first annual BlueHat Prize closed at 11:59pm PDT on April 1. We've been eagerly awaiting a final entry count from the contest organizers, and senior security strategist Katie Moussouris has just posted that tally on the EcoStrat blog. Congratulations to all participants...
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    Countdown to Defensive Security Innovations Competition: Final Submission Days!

    Nearly nine months after we announced the first annual Link Removed due to 404 Error competition for innovations in defensive security technologies, we’re just days away from the submission deadline. On the EcoStrat blog today, Senior Security Strategist Katie Moussouris gives a glimpse...
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