r/netsec • • Jul 02 '26

Hiring Thread /r/netsec's Q3 2026 Information Security Hiring Thread

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Overview

If you have open positions at your company for information security professionals and would like to hire from the /r/netsec user base, please leave a comment detailing any open job listings at your company.

We would also like to encourage you to post internship positions as well. Many of our readers are currently in school or are just finishing their education.

Please reserve top level comments for those posting open positions.

Rules & Guidelines

Include the company name in the post. If you want to be topsykret, go recruit elsewhere. Include the geographic location of the position along with the availability of relocation assistance or remote work.

  • If you are a third party recruiter, you must disclose this in your posting.
  • Please be thorough and upfront with the position details.
  • Use of non-hr'd (realistic) requirements is encouraged.
  • While it's fine to link to the position on your companies website, provide the important details in the comment.
  • Mention if applicants should apply officially through HR, or directly through you.
  • Please clearly list citizenship, visa, and security clearance requirements.

You can see an example of acceptable posts by perusing past hiring threads.

Feedback

Feedback and suggestions are welcome, but please don't hijack this thread (use moderator mail instead.)


r/netsec • • 13d ago

r/netsec monthly discussion & tool thread

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Questions regarding netsec and discussion related directly to netsec are welcome here, as is sharing tool links.

Rules & Guidelines

  • Always maintain civil discourse. Be awesome to one another - moderator intervention will occur if necessary.
  • Avoid NSFW content unless absolutely necessary. If used, mark it as being NSFW. If left unmarked, the comment will be removed entirely.
  • If linking to classified content, mark it as such. If left unmarked, the comment will be removed entirely.
  • Avoid use of memes. If you have something to say, say it with real words.
  • All discussions and questions should directly relate to netsec.
  • No tech support is to be requested or provided on r/netsec.

As always, the content & discussion guidelines should also be observed on r/netsec.

Feedback

Feedback and suggestions are welcome, but don't post it here. Please send it to the moderator inbox.


r/netsec • • 5h ago

Anthropic's Sept 2026 threat report: attackers prompt-injected an eval sandbox, stole customer API keys, then burned the victims' own compute to attack ~30 AI labs

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38 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 11h ago

AhsayCBS Deep-Dive: Auth Bypass to RCE

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8 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 1d ago

Vghost (CVE-2026-74580): Linux kernel vhost stale IOTLB cache leading to universal LPE and Guest-to-Host escape vector

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40 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 1d ago

We Let AI Fuzz Adobe Reader for a Week. It Found a Critical Zero-Day CVE-2026-81983

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104 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 14h ago

tensorlake@0.5.144: A Worm With Valid Provenance, and the Firewall Rule That Stops It

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0 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 1d ago

Playing It SFAPE: Code Execution in Isolated User Mode

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10 Upvotes

Doyensec discovered multiple vulnerabilities in SFAPE.dll, a VBS enclave shipped with Windows, and chained them to gain code execution within the enclave in Windows Isolated User Mode (VTL1). The post explores how VBS enclaves work and how memory corruption can undermine their isolation guarantees. Microsoft addressed the reported issue in the September 2026 bulletin under CVE-2026-83498.


r/netsec • • 2d ago

Google paid me $90,000 for this RCE

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514 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 2d ago

CVE-2026-91768: FastCGI allowed_clients compared only 96 of an IPv6 address's 128 bits

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101 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 3d ago

Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user file to be stolen

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171 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 1d ago

Passkeys are a trap

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0 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 2d ago

LG webOS sync-demo Preauth RCE

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15 Upvotes

An exploit chain was found in LG webOS, leading to root command execution. The chain starts with a client-key issuance bypass, progresses through service-level access, and ultimately leads to root command execution.


r/netsec • • 4d ago

A story of wifi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip

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34 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 4d ago

GitHub Actions leaking secrets when Miri output is cached

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3 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 4d ago

Smashing the token limit with overlapping fragments (CSS injection token exfiltration, PortSwigger Research)

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4 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 5d ago

Death By A Thousand PaperCuts (PaperCut Pre-Auth RCE Chain and Patch Bypasses WT-2026-0141-0144/CVE-2026-82077/CVE-2026-82078/CVE-2026-81578) - watchTowr Labs

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49 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 6d ago

How We Found Thousands of Exposed NVIDIA GPUs and a Way to Disrupt Them (CVE-2026-47483)

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115 Upvotes

TL;DR: NVIDIA DCGM Exporter is a widely used monitoring tool that collects GPU metrics like utilization, memory, temperature, and power consumption from AI servers.
We discovered that thousands of these monitoring endpoints are exposed to the public internet, allowing anyone to inspect GPU infrastructure. Worse, we found a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-47483, CVSS 8.2) that lets unauthenticated attackers exhaust server resources, crash GPU monitoring, and potentially disrupt AI workloads remotely.
A few other interesting findings:
2,100+ exposed GPU servers, revealing telemetry from 12,000+ GPUs worth ~$100M, including H100s, H200s, and Blackwell GPUs.
60% of exposed GPUs reported 0% utilization across our scans.
12,096 additional servers exposed infrastructure details, including OS, firmware, and networking information.
NVIDIA fixed the vulnerability following our responsible disclosure.
Full research: https://lava.security/research/cve-2026-47483-nvidia-dcgm-exporter-vulnerability


r/netsec • • 6d ago

A Single POST Freezes Any Next.js Server

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138 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 6d ago

Pending Moderation A JPEG, a Race, and a Ghost: Breaking Discourse's Image Pipeline

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7 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 6d ago

Tool Release Loupe: An Android Console in the Browser

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6 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 6d ago

I found yet another way to invoke JavaScript functions without parentheses

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87 Upvotes

It turns out you can overwrite the Error.prepareStackTrace method with the function constructor. Then, using prototype pollution, you can inject valid JavaScript code to generate arbitrary functions and invoke it using the usual tricks.


r/netsec • • 7d ago

CVE-2026-102489 Deep-Dive: Zammad Session Leak to RCE

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24 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 8d ago

You Won’t Hear About These, Even In Myths (Atlassian Jira, Confluence (and more) Pre-Auth Arbitrary File Read CVE-2026-21589) - watchTowr Labs

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69 Upvotes

r/netsec • • 8d ago

Teaching network intrusion in the funnest way possible

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41 Upvotes

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on that I’m super excited about:

Project RedTeam: Contract Offensive

There’s a free Demo that provides a tutorial and lets you play a few contracts (no time limit, play as much as you want). Some players are already pulling some serious hours in the demo!

At its core, this is a game about using MITRE ATT&CK adversarial techniques against procedurally generated networks. It's delivered in a gameplay loop that plays a lot like Balatro and other card based Roguelike games. In Project RedTeam, you need to earn money to pay off debts after every contract within a run. Earn money by completing objectives, side bounties, or executing exfiltration/ransom against targets- the choice on how to be profitable is always yours.

It's a challenging but fun and fast paced take on network-intrusion cybersecurity concepts. It's entertaining in a deliberately gamified way.

A goal of this project was to create a hacking game that is realistic enough to keep it meaningful as a tool to teach intrusion concepts and stages to anyone- but not be overcomplicated and slow-paced like most hacking games.

I've put a lot of thought into the design and dynamics of how to capture the core-loop of network intrusion and turn it into a game that's approachable. The design direction of this project is an outcome of having over a decade of training and experience in cybersecurity.

Feel free to AMA! I'm happy to answer any questions about the game and/or development process :)

Give the game a Wishlist on Steam or share this post if it's something you support and want to see further development on.

Project background: This was implemented over the past 3 months using a modern development workflow (yes, modern AI tools make this possible- I'm not hiding that fact!). That being said, this is by far the most complex software project I've built as a solo developer and it was not an easy or simple development task. There's a Steam Community with a Dev Blog for this game that provides more history/progress updates on the project.

Mods: This will be my only and last post here, since it is promotional. I just wanted to share this since there’s been very positive interest from similar subreddits.