EarlyTerms

Security

6 researched emerging terms in Security. Sorted by detection date — newest first.

Security / Vulnerabilities / Virtualization
Emergent
Januscape

Januscape is the branded name for [CVE-2026-53359](https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/06/7), a use-after-free bug in the shadow MMU code KVM shares between Intel and AMD x86 hosts, le…

Emerged · 12d ago View →
Security / Supply Chain / AI Developer Tools
Validating
Miasma (worm)

Miasma is a self-propagating supply-chain worm that steals developer credentials and cloud secrets by hijacking npm packages, PyPI packages, and GitHub repository configuration files. Built on the pub…

Emerged · 47d ago View →
Security / Supply Chain / AI Agents
Validating
protestware

Protestware is open-source software that a maintainer intentionally sabotages to deliver a political or social message, targeting users rather than doing what the package advertises. The technique ran…

Emerged · 54d ago View →
Security / Supply Chain / Developer Tools
Validating
Mini Shai-Hulud

Mini Shai-Hulud is the fourth-generation variant of the Shai-Hulud supply-chain worm family, built by threat group TeamPCP to self-propagate across npm, PyPI, and Packagist by stealing CI/CD credentia…

Emerged · 80d ago View →
Security / Linux / Exploit Research
Validating
Universal Linux LPE

Universal Linux LPE describes a local privilege escalation exploit that gains root access across every major Linux distribution — no race condition required, no kernel-version-specific offsets, no ele…

Emerged · 72d ago View →
Security / DevOps / Incident Response
Rising
Webhook Secrets

A webhook secret is a shared string used to authenticate webhook deliveries: the sender computes an HMAC signature over the payload with the secret and sends it in a header like `X-Hub-Signature-256`;…

Emerged · 95d ago View →
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