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It's the bug of the month for June 2026! CVE-2026-45657 - A CVSS 9.8 vulnerability in Kernel that allows remote, unauthenticated code execution at SYSTEM without user interaction. Yikes!

No time to read the blog? Check out the Patch Report for June 2026. @TheDustinChilds breaks down this massive release and provides guidance on where to focus your resources. https://youtu.be/DEGxRsjwUaI

Wow. Over 200 CVEs from #Microsoft and another 123 from #Adobe. It's a record-setting Patch Tuesday, but fear not! @TheDustinChilds has broken the release down and provides the details. Check out the blog athttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2026/6/9/the-june-2026-security-update-review

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 is in the books, and it was an amazing contest from start to finish. We awarded $1,129,250 for 47 unique 0-days. Join @dustin_childs and Vincent Lee as they recap the highlights and offer a preview of what's to come. https://youtu.be/SqeskOpUPQU

Catch up with the happenings from #Pwn2Own day 3! Watch recap here [https://youtu.be/czmHJ8oAsQY?si=cMb2O51f4TMlCdQQ](skeets://httplink?link=https://youtu.be/czmHJ8oAsQY?si=cMb2O51f4TMlCdQQ)

That's a wrap on Pwn2Own Berlin 2026! 🏆 $1,298,250 awarded. 47 unique 0-days. 3 days of absolute chaos. And talk about main character energy - congrats to DEVCORE for claiming Master of Pwn with 50.5 points and $505,000 - they never slowed down. See you next year! #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

Collision! While Byung Young Yi (@yibarrack) of Out Of Bounds successfully demonstrated their exploit of Anthropic Claude Code, the bug used had been previously disclosed. They still earn $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn points. #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

Mind blown alert 🤯! Nguyen Hoang Thach (@hi_im_d4rkn3ss) of STARLabs SG (@starlabs_sg) used a Memory Corruption bug to exploit VMware ESXi with the Cross-tenant Code Execution add-on, earning a sweeeeeet $200,000 and 20 Master of Pwn points. Full win let's go! #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

Booyah it's been confirmed! 🎉 splitline (@_splitline_) of DEVCORE Research Team chained 2 bugs to exploit Microsoft SharePoint, earning $100,000 and 10 Master of Pwn points. Massive aura farming this year at #P2OBerlin. Full win! #Pwn2Own