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Oct 2026
PHP2Shell: the expiry date on “too hard to exploit”
On 21 October 2026, PHP shipped emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619,...
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Pentera Labs’ daily mission is to keep security teams one step ahead of attackers. We wake up every day analyzing threat intelligence, emerging attack techniques, and real-world breaches to understand how modern attacks evolve across enterprise environments. We apply that knowledge directly into Pentera’s attack engine to ensure that your security testing reflects the techniques adversaries are using today and those they will use tomorrow.
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Living off the Land
LOLBins Against the Machine: Reverse Engineering at Machine Speed
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Active Directory
You’ll Never SID’em Coming: DoS in Active Directory
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Detection Evasion
Reflective Loading with Remote Memory Interactions
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WebLogic
WebLogic – A Road to Post Exploitation
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DNS
Bypassing “Air-Gapped” Networks via DNS
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WebLogic
Not Another WebLogic Exploitation: The Road to Post Exploitation
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Vulnerability Research
Kubernetes
Beyond IngressNightmare: Uncovering New Injection Vectors in Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX
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Fortinet VPN
Piping Hot Fortinet Vulnerabilities – Zero-Days in FortiClient VPN
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MSSQL
The Gateway to Control: Initiating Attacks on MSSQL Databases
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AWS
Blurring Boundaries: Risks of AWS SSM in Hybrid Landscapes
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In The Wild
When the Lab Door Stays Open: Exposed Training Apps Exploited for Fortune 500 Cloud Breaches
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AWS SSM
Cloud Risks
Looks Legit, Runs Malicious: The Quiet Trust Gap in AWS SSM 
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Threat Research
Thinking Outside of the (In)Box: Getting Gmail’s ‘Stamp of Approval’ on Malicious Payloads
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Vulnerability Research
Podman’s WebView Turned World-View
[CVE-2026-34045] 
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The Value Problem: What AI cannot decide for us
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The Behavior Frontier: What AI cannot predict or verify
Shlomo Ben-Yosef
17 Aug 2026
Pentera Labs Deep Dive - Part 2
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The Information Ceiling: What AI cannot learn universally
Shlomo Ben-Yosef
17 Aug 2026
Pentera Labs Deep Dives - Part 3
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The Self-Reference Trap: What AI cannot say about itself
Shlomo Ben-Yosef
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Pentera Labs Deep Dives - Part I
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The research we conduct directly powers the validation engine you rely on. Our focus goes beyond tracking CVEs, examining the techniques attackers use to bypass security controls, exploit misconfigurations, chain exposures, live off the land, and more. Every discovery feeds into Pentera’s testing capabilities, ensuring they reflect how adversaries actually operate. As attack methods change, Pentera’s testing changes with them through a continuous cycle of research, development, testing, deployment, and refinement.
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Research cited across cybersecurity media

‘Significant Threat’—Billions Of Gmail Users At Risk From Google Security Gaffe
'Damn Vulnerable' Training Apps 
Leave Vendors' Clouds Exposed
Misconfigured demo environments
are turning into cloud backdoors to
the enterprise
Fortinet VPN design flaw hides
successful brute-force attacks
The Kubernetes Annotation Pitfall:
The One Word That Puts Your AWS
Load Balancers at Risk
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