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Thirty Deals in Six Months: The H1 2026 Hosting Consolidation Map, and the Two Clocks Driving What Sells Next
Natalia Nowak · 28 Jul 2026 · 13 min read
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H1 2026 produced a US$1B Polish hosting-commerce merger, a $450M registrar champion, serial buyers closing two deals apiece within a fortnight, and a $40B data-centre record, while Google's AdSense shutdown forced Sedo and Team Internet to market. The map, the multiples, and the debt walls pushed to 2028-2029.
Articles tagged #cve
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Two of cPanel’s Three New Flaws Cross the Line Between Accounts
by Natalia Nowak · 29 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
cPanel patched three vulnerabilities on July 29, across every supported branch. Two matter most on shared servers: an unauthenticated request-smuggling bug that can alter other users' responses, and a database flaw that lets an ordinary account reach admin rights and possibly the host itself.
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A Malware Campaign Is Using GitHub Actions to Hunt Unpatched cPanel Servers
by Natalia Nowak · 24 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
Three months after cPanel's emergency patch, attackers have turned GitHub Actions into a distributed fleet that scans the internet for servers still exposed to CVE-2026-41940 and harvests their cloud keys, tokens and database logins. How it works, and what to check.
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A Once-a-Decade WordPress Core Flaw, and the Gap Between Patched and Safe
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
A critical flaw in WordPress core, the first of its kind in nearly a decade, triggered a rare forced update to millions of sites. Within 72 hours it was mass exploitation, because forced updates never reach everyone. Why patched and safe are not the same thing.
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A 16-Year-Old KVM Escape, and OVHcloud’s Week-Long Patch Across a Million VMs
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
A 16-year-old flaw in KVM let a customer with admin access escape their virtual server and seize the host on both Intel and AMD. OVHcloud built a fix and rebooted around a million VMs in a week to deploy it, and the campaign shows the quiet choice every host makes between your consent and your safety.
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A Critical Nginx Flaw and Who Is Actually Exposed
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
F5 patched CVE-2026-42533, a heap-overflow flaw in Nginx rated 9.2 that has sat in the code since 2011. It is unauthenticated and remote, but only triggers under a specific regex-map configuration, so not every server is exposed. With a proof-of-concept exploit due in early August, here is who actually needs to patch.
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Roundcube’s Zero-Click Webmail XSS, and How Fast It Reached cPanel
by Natalia Nowak · 15 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
A zero-click stored XSS in Roundcube webmail, scored CVSS 7.2, lets a crafted plain-text email run script in a victim's session on preview. Roundcube fixed it on July 5, cPanel shipped it in 134.0.45 on July 14, and standalone installs still need patching separately.
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Three Unauthenticated File Flaws in a Week, and One Root Cause: Validation by Shortcut
by Natalia Nowak · 10 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
Between July 7 and 9, three serious unauthenticated flaws surfaced in file-handling code: an RCE in Blocksy Companion Pro, arbitrary file deletion in Frontend File Manager, and an SSRF in Monsta FTP. Different codebases, one root cause, and a blast radius that lands on the hosting provider.
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MariaDB Patches CVSS 10.0 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Galera Cluster Feature
by Natalia Nowak · 15 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
MariaDB patched a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-49261) on May 27, disclosed publicly on June 11. The vulnerability is in wsrep_notify_cmd, a Galera Cluster feature. Standalone MariaDB is not at risk. Two additional CVSS 8.0 CVEs were fixed in the same update.
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The Exploit Record: How Government Networks Keep Getting Breached
by Natalia Nowak · 29 May 2026 · 14 min read
CVE-2026-41940 was exploited as a zero-day for 68 days before a patch existed. CISA was breached via Ivanti vulnerabilities it had just ordered patched. Volt Typhoon had 5-year US infrastructure access. The case-by-case record of how government networks keep getting owned.
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CVE-2026-48172: LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Root Privilege Escalation, CVSS 10.0, Actively Exploited
by Natalia Nowak · 27 May 2026 · 3 min read
CVE-2026-48172 in LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin (2.3-2.4.4) lets any authenticated cPanel user run arbitrary scripts as root. CVSS 10.0, actively exploited, on the CISA KEV list. Patch to WHM Plugin 5.3.1.0 / cPanel Plugin 2.4.7 immediately.
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Nginx Just Patched old Rewrite Module Flaw. RCE Was Possible With a Single HTTP Request.
by Łukasz Nowak · 14 May 2026 · 6 min read
A flaw sitting in nginx since 2008 was patched on May 13, 2026. CVSS 9.2, unauthenticated, and present in the default rewrite module.
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cPanel Patched Five More CVEs. One Fix Is Already Reported Incomplete.
by Natalia Nowak · 14 May 2026 · 9 min read
cPanel's May 13 patch covers five new CVEs, but security researcher Shubham Shah reported within hours that the fix for CVE-2026-29205 is incomplete and all cPanel instances remain exploitable until a working patch lands.
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A Compromised Server Is the Beginning. Here Is What Breach Law Requires Next.
by Łukasz Nowak · 13 May 2026 · 35 min read
Change Healthcare's $3.1 billion in breach costs is the new normal of what a serious compromise sets in motion: parallel notification clocks across GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and HIPAA; personal liability for CISOs and boards; and a cyber insurance market with conditions that can deny coverage at the worst moment.
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cPanel Is Patching Three New CVEs Today. Technical Details Come With the Fix.
by Łukasz Nowak · 8 May 2026 · 3 min read
Three new cPanel vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-29201, CVE-2026-29202, and CVE-2026-29203, are being patched today at 12:00pm EST, with technical details withheld until the fix is live.
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