{
  "id": 5265843,
  "title": "Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/researcher-releases-falconflank-poc-showing-privilege-escalation-in",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-03T06:26:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/researcher-releases-falconflank-poc.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank, a privilege escalation flaw impacting Crowdstrike Falcon. \"FalconFlank is a 0day privilege escalation that abuses the office malicious macros remediation in CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor,\" the researcher said in a GitHub README file, adding",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}