Exploit

Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in the Balancer decentralized finance protocol on November 3, 2025, stealing an estimated $120 million to $128 million in cryptocurrency. Balancer confirmed the incident and paused affected pools to mitigate further losses. Security firms traced the attack to compromised access control mechanisms.

20. Oktober 2025 Von KI berichtet

A proof-of-concept exploit has been released for CVE-2025-8941, a high-severity flaw in Linux-PAM's pam_namespace module. The vulnerability allows local attackers with low privileges to gain root access through race conditions and symlink manipulation. Security experts urge immediate patching to prevent system compromise.