GhostMap: an app can brick Android device, leaving it in crash loop
A single, permission‑free app can brick an Android phone and force a factory reset.
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A single, permission‑free app can brick an Android phone and force a factory reset.
A critical vulnerability in the libssh2 library, identified as CVE-2026-55200, is trending following the public release of a proof-of-concept exploit.
Linux systems face a new stealthy root-access exploit targeting cached binaries—no disk traces left behind.