CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of ‘PwnKit’ Linux Vulnerability in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week moved to add a Linux vulnerability dubbed PwnKit to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-4034 (CVSS score: 7.8), came to light in January 2022 and concerns a case of local privilege escalation in polkit’s pkexec utility,…

StoneCo Stock May be Basing Like a Rock

Brazilian point-of-sale (POS) financial technology provider StoneCo (NASDAQ: STNE) stock has fallen (-54%) year-to-date despite triple digit top-line growth. The popular aggregator of electronic and digital payments and e-commerce platform in Brazil not only beat its fiscal Q1 2022 estimates but raised it top-line outlook for fiscal Q2 2022. The global macroeconomic slowdown fears have…