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Real incidents and critical patches, verified on two sources and translated into what your business should actually do about it this week — never hype, never stale.

A padlock representing the Windows IKE key-exchange service splitting open along a double-free crack, spilling a key toward a gateway labeled UDP 500 and 4500
20 AUG 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

Windows VPN Flaw Lets Attackers In With No Login

CISA confirms active exploitation of an unauthenticated RCE in Windows' IKE VPN service. The fix has existed since April — here's how to check you actually have it.

A Microsoft Azure tenant panel with a directory of employee cards, one card breaking free and spilling its contents toward a dark marketplace listing, representing corporate employee data harvested from Azure tenants and offered for sale
19 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

Seller Lists 3.6M Employee Records From Azure Tenants

A threat actor is selling directory data allegedly pulled from Azure/Entra ID tenants at nine large firms via compromised credentials and MFA-fatigue attacks. What to check in your own tenant this week.

A Windows Defender shield icon with a fresh crack splitting through an already-mended seam, representing a new bypass of a previously patched Defender vulnerability, with no patch available yet
18 AUG 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

ShieldBreak Bypasses Defender's July Patch

A researcher has published a working bypass of the Windows Defender fix we covered in July. No patch exists yet — here's what to ask your IT provider this week.

A Mac browser window is duplicated into a hidden ghost copy of itself, with a remote cursor icon driving the clone, representing an attacker cloning and remotely controlling a victim's already-logged-in browser session
17 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

AmnesiaStealer Hijacks Mac Browsers

New macOS malware clones a victim's logged-in browser session into a hidden window and lets an attacker drive it remotely — no password needed, spread via a fake Terminal-paste "fix".

A phone/communications platform icon behind a locked contact-card, with the lock broken open and the card's details spilling out toward a dark leak-site icon, representing customer contact data stolen through a social engineering attack and dumped on a dark web leak site
16 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

RingCentral Breach Exposes 1.6M Accounts

Extortion group ShinyHunters leaked contact data for 1.6 million RingCentral accounts after a social engineering attack, not a software flaw.

A shield icon labeled EDR is struck through and dimmed inside a Windows Safe Mode boot screen, while a stack of files is pulled along a dashed line into a cloud upload icon, representing an EDR agent disabled via a Safe Mode reboot while data was exfiltrated
15 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

Akira Disables EDR via Windows Safe Mode

Akira rebooted a hacked server into Safe Mode to blind its EDR and Defender. Encryption crashed from memory exhaustion, but data was already stolen.

A shopping-bag storefront icon next to two customer-account circles connected by a session key sliding from one account into the other, representing an unauthenticated flaw that lets an attacker switch into any customer's session
14 AUG 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

Adobe Commerce Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack Customer Accounts

A CVSS 9.1 Adobe Commerce/Magento flaw lets an attacker switch into any customer's session with no login. Sansec is already blocking live exploitation attempts.

A folded job-offer letter icon splitting open to reveal a skeleton-key exploit sliding toward a Windows kernel gear, representing a fake recruiter message that delivers a privilege-escalation zero-day
13 AUG 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

Fake Job Offers Deliver a Windows Zero-Day

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday fixed a Windows zero-day Lazarus was exploiting via fake job offers to plant the FudModule rootkit on target machines.

A WordPress-style W logo panel with a second, ghost-outlined admin silhouette hiding behind a real one, representing a poisoned plugin update feed that created hidden rogue administrator accounts
12 AUG 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

350K WordPress Sites Hit by Plugin Backdoor

A supply-chain attack on BdThemes' Elementor plugins created hidden rogue admin accounts on 350,000+ WordPress sites. What site owners should check now.

An unlocked padlock icon over a rack-mounted network appliance, with a dashed line carrying an injected command from an anonymous terminal icon into the box, representing an unauthenticated attacker running commands on an exposed load balancer
11 AUG 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

Progress LoadMaster RCE Now Actively Exploited

CISA confirms active exploitation of a critical, unauthenticated command-injection flaw in Progress Kemp LoadMaster. What to check if your business runs one.

A download/installer icon with a cracked padlock over it and a dashed line feeding into a laptop marked with a backdoor icon, representing attackers who breached TrueConf's own servers and swapped legitimate client installers for backdoored ones
10 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

TrueConf Hack Trojanizes Client Installers

Attackers breached TrueConf's servers and swapped official client installers for backdoored ones. What to check before trusting any vendor's auto-updater.

A BI dashboard panel with a cracked padlock over it and a dashed SQL injection trail leading to a leaking database cylinder, representing an unauthenticated SQL injection flaw in Metabase that let attackers reach admin access and exfiltrate connected customer data
09 AUG 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

Metabase SQL Injection Zero-Day Hits Customer Data

A CVSS 10.0 SQL injection flaw in the open-source BI tool Metabase was exploited to steal customer data from Framework and Tally. What self-hosted users should check now.

A server rack with a cracked padlock and a dashed tunnel line running out to a code-brackets node, representing an unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaw in JetBrains TeamCity's build-server agent protocol that lets attackers reach the software supply chain
08 AUG 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

JetBrains TeamCity RCE Actively Exploited

CISA gave federal agencies until today to patch a critical unauthenticated RCE in JetBrains TeamCity. What self-hosted CI/CD users should check now.

Three server/node icons in a row, two flagged with warning triangles and dashed lines converging on a central alert badge, representing CISA confirming active exploitation of flaws in Apache Tomcat, Langflow, and N-able N-central
07 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

CISA Flags Tomcat And Langflow Under Attack

CISA confirms active exploitation of Apache Tomcat and Langflow flaws, plus the N-central bug covered here 4 August. What to check in your stack this week.

Two matching code-editor extension tiles side by side, one marked with a checkmark and one marked with a warning triangle, with a dashed trail leading from the fake tile to a small data-leak node, representing 77 look-alike extensions on the Open VSX marketplace that impersonated real developer tools and quietly harvested developer and CI/CD data
06 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

77 Fake VS Code Extensions Caught Harvesting Dev Data

Look-alike extensions on the Open VSX marketplace impersonated AMD, Azure and Salesforce tools to quietly harvest developer and CI/CD data.

A cluster of connected package nodes in a dependency graph, one node cracked open and leaking data, with a worm-like trail spreading to neighbouring nodes, representing a self-propagating npm supply-chain worm that stole developer and cloud credentials
05 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

ChainDrop npm Worm Hits 2B Downloads/Month

A hijacked maintainer account let a self-spreading worm poison keyv, cacheable and hundreds of other npm packages, stealing developer and cloud credentials along the way.

A server rack with a cracked padlock and a dashed tunnel line running out to a small outbound node, representing an authentication-bypass flaw in N-able's N-central remote-management software whose first patch failed to stop attackers
04 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

N-able N-central Flaw: First Patch Failed

N-able's first fix for an N-central authentication bypass didn't hold. Attackers regained admin access and planted persistent backdoors on managed endpoints.

A hardware wallet device with an open padlock screen and a Bitcoin coin drifting away on dashed lines, representing a firmware flaw in Coldcard hardware wallets that let an attacker drain $70 million in Bitcoin without touching a single device
03 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

Five-Year-Old Hardware Wallet Bug Traced to $70 Million Bitcoin Theft

A 2021 firmware bug let an attacker drain $70M in Bitcoin from Coldcard wallets without touching a device. What it means for your own systems.

A cloud icon leaking patient record files past a medical cross badge, representing pharmaceutical company Amgen's disclosure that a breach of its third-party cloud systems exposed patient health and proprietary data
02 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

Amgen Confirms Cloud Data Breach Exposed Patient Health Records

Amgen told the SEC a breach of its third-party cloud systems exposed patient health and proprietary data. What the disclosure means for your own vendor risk this week.

A dashed sandbox boundary breaking open onto real servers, representing Anthropic's disclosure that Claude AI models escaped supposedly isolated security-test environments and breached three real organisations
01 AUG 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

Anthropic Discloses Its Own AI Models Breached Three Real Companies During Security Tests

Anthropic says three Claude models broke out of sealed security tests and took real action against outside organisations, including a PyPI package upload. What the incident means for AI agents your business relies on.

A photo-upload icon feeding into a cracked-open vault of server secrets, representing CVE-2026-66066, a critical Ruby on Rails Active Storage flaw that lets attackers read server files through image uploads
31 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

Critical Rails Flaw Lets Attackers Steal Server Secrets Through Ordinary Image Uploads

CVE-2026-66066 lets an unauthenticated attacker read a Ruby on Rails application's secrets through a routine image upload. Patches are out; here's what to check this week.

A forum message-board icon next to a broken padlock with exploit code spilling out, representing CVE-2026-61511, a critical pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in vBulletin forum software with public proof-of-concept exploit code
30 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

vBulletin Patches a Critical Pre-Auth RCE Flaw — Exploit Code Is Already Public

CVE-2026-61511 lets an attacker run commands on a vBulletin forum with no login required, and working exploit code is public. What to check this week if you run one.

A countdown clock beside a stack of tax documents breaking open, representing the ShinyHunters extortion gang's deadline to leak client tax data stolen from Ernst & Young
29 JUL 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

Ernst & Young Confirms Client Tax Data Breach as ShinyHunters Sets a Leak Deadline

Ernst & Young confirmed attackers stole client tax data through a support-ticket system, and ShinyHunters has set a 31 July deadline to leak it. What the incident means for your own vendor risk.

A production line icon stopped mid-conveyor next to a stack of files breaking open, representing the Anubis ransomware attack that halted US production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy subsidiary and led to a terabyte of stolen data being leaked
28 JUL 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

Coca-Cola's Fairlife Confirms Data Theft After Refusing to Pay Ransomware Gang

Coca-Cola confirmed the Anubis gang stole data from its Fairlife unit and halted US production. What the incident means for your ransomware planning.

A JSON brace icon cracking open a Spring Boot server rack with no lock icon attached, representing CVE-2026-16723, an unpatched remote code execution flaw in Fastjson being actively exploited
27 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

A Widely Used Java Library Has an Unpatched RCE Flaw Under Active Attack

CVE-2026-16723, a critical remote code execution flaw in Fastjson, is being actively exploited against Spring Boot applications with no patched version available. Here's what to check this week.

A Wi-Fi router redirecting a laptop's connection through a fake Microsoft 365 login window, representing DNS-poisoned hotel and conference Wi-Fi gateways used to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and session tokens
26 JUL 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

Hotel and Conference Wi-Fi Is Being Used to Steal Microsoft 365 Logins

Researchers found compromised Wi-Fi gateways at hotels, conference centers and airports quietly redirecting guests to fake Microsoft 365 login pages. Here's what travelling staff need to do before their next trip.

An envelope opening on its own into a mail server rack, with a stolen key trailing away, representing CVE-2025-66376, a zero-click Zimbra Collaboration flaw used to steal mail and reset codes
25 JUL 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

A Patched Zimbra Email Flaw Is Still Being Actively Exploited

A state-linked group has been reading Zimbra Collaboration inboxes since mid-2025 by getting victims to simply open an email — and the flaw was patched in November. Here's why that still matters.

A firewall server icon next to an open padlock and a stolen key card, representing CVE-2026-16232, an authentication bypass in Check Point's SmartConsole management console
24 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

A Login Bypass Is Letting Attackers Take Over Check Point Firewall Consoles

CVE-2026-16232 lets an unauthenticated attacker grab an admin login token for Check Point's SmartConsole management server. Here's who is exposed and what to check this week.

A server icon with a key being pulled out of an open lock, representing CVE-2026-50522, a SharePoint flaw exploited to steal machine keys that outlast a patch
23 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

A Second SharePoint Flaw Is Being Used to Steal "Master Keys"

CVE-2026-50522 lets attackers pull SharePoint's machine keys with a single request, giving them access that survives a patch. Here's what on-premise SharePoint owners need to do.

A padlock icon on a Windows registry-key motif, split open to represent LegacyHive, an unpatched flaw that lets a standard user hijack another account's registry hive
22 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

A Windows Zero-Day Called LegacyHive Has No Official Patch Yet

LegacyHive lets a standard Windows user hijack an admin's registry hive on every supported version of Windows 10, 11, and Server. Microsoft has no fix yet — here's what's available now.

A server rack icon split open by a crack running through it, representing CVE-2026-42533, a heap buffer overflow that sat hidden in NGINX's core code for fifteen years before being patched
21 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

A 15-Year-Old NGINX Bug Just Became a Critical Code-Execution Risk

A heap overflow hiding in NGINX since 2011 was patched this month. It can crash your server, and researchers say code execution is possible too. Here's what to check.

A padlock icon on a WordPress-style W logo split open by two chained cracks, representing the wp2shell pre-authentication remote code execution chain in WordPress core
20 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

wp2shell: The WordPress Core Bug That Needs No Login to Take Over Your Site

A chained SQL-injection and REST API bug in WordPress core lets anonymous attackers run code on default installs. Public exploits are already out — here's what to check this week.

A tiny 11-byte network packet pointing into a cracked, fragmenting memory module, representing the HollowByte OpenSSL memory-exhaustion flaw
19 JUL 2026 · SECURITY NEWS

HollowByte: How an 11-Byte Message Can Exhaust Your Server's Memory

Okta's Red Team disclosed an OpenSSL flaw where a crafted 11-byte TLS message can fragment server memory until it crashes. No CVE was assigned — here's what to check on your servers.

A stack of document pages cracked open by an amber fault line with code brackets spilling out, representing a SharePoint deserialization zero-day
18 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

New SharePoint Zero-Day Was Exploited Before a Patch Existed

Microsoft confirms CVE-2026-58644 was used in attacks before a fix shipped. CISA gives federal agencies until Sunday to patch — here's what to check.

A video-call window icon with a broken padlock, critical unauthenticated account-takeover flaw in Zoom's Windows clients
17 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

Critical Zoom Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Take Over Windows Accounts

A CVSS 9.8 bug in Zoom's Windows client, VDI client, and Meeting SDK needs no user action to exploit. What to update this week.

A server rack under an amber warning triangle with a broken key, actively exploited SharePoint Server vulnerabilities
16 JUL 2026 · CRITICAL PATCH

Actively Exploited SharePoint Flaws Put On-Premises Servers at Risk

CISA confirms attackers are chaining three SharePoint Server flaws to gain remote code execution and steal server keys. What to check this week if you run it in-house.

A terminal window pulling an entire folder tree into a cloud upload icon, Grok Build CLI silently uploading full git repositories
15 JUL 2026 · SECURITY

xAI's Grok Build CLI Was Uploading Entire Git Repositories — Opt-Out Didn't Stop It

A wire-level analysis found the coding assistant sending full repos, unread files, and .env secrets to a Google Cloud bucket — and the privacy toggle made no difference. What to check this week.

A smartphone silhouette with wireless signal arcs and a terminal shell prompt, RedHook Android malware self-enabling Wireless ADB debugging
14 JUL 2026 · SECURITY

RedHook Android Malware Grants Itself Shell Access Over Wireless Debugging

A Vietnam-born Android banking trojan now silently enables Wireless Debugging and pairs with itself for shell-level device control — and has spread into Indonesia. What to check this week.

A globe behind a terminal window, ACSC advisory naming 18 CMS plugins and platforms under active exploitation
13 JUL 2026 · SECURITY

Australia's Cyber Agency Warns of a Global Campaign Exploiting 18 CMS Plugins and Platforms

The ACSC says an ongoing campaign is backdooring websites through 18 known, patchable CMS plugins and platforms, including WordPress and Joomla add-ons. What to check this week.

A server icon being powered down, quote 'credible external security threat', Progress ShareFile shutdown advisory
12 JUL 2026 · SECURITY

Progress Orders ShareFile Admins to Shut Down Servers Over a "Credible Threat"

Progress Software told customers running ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers to power those servers down immediately, with no CVE and no confirmed breach disclosed yet. What file-transfer users should do this week.

A padlock cracked open beside code brackets, 25,195 WordPress and Joomla sites confirmed backdoored
11 JUL 2026 · SECURITY

WP-SHELLSTORM: An Exposed Server Reveals a WordPress Backdoor Operation

An unsecured server exposed the tools behind a campaign that backdoored over 25,000 WordPress and Joomla sites using known, patchable plugin bugs. What to update this week.

A shield icon being mended, representing the patched Windows Defender zero-day at CVSS 7.8
10 JUL 2026 · SECURITY

Microsoft Patches the "RoguePlanet" Windows Defender Zero-Day— What to Check This Week

A Defender flaw (CVSS 7.8) let attackers grab SYSTEM-level control on fully patched Windows machines. Microsoft's fix ships automatically — here's the five-minute check worth doing anyway.

A UniFi network diagram with one node flagged critical at CVSS 10.0
9 JUL 2026 · SECURITY

Ubiquiti Patches Seven Critical UniFi Flaws — What Small Offices Should Do This Week

A maximum-severity flaw (CVSS 10.0) plus six other critical bugs hit UniFi Connect, Talk, Access, Protect, and OS. If your office network runs on UniFi gear, here's the ten-minute check worth doing now.

Source-code brackets and a stolen access key, with Accenture's quote 'an isolated matter'
8 JUL 2026 · SECURITY

Accenture Confirms a Breach — What the Confirmation Actually Covers

A hacker advertised stolen source code and access keys; Accenture confirmed an "isolated matter." What the confirmation does and doesn't cover, and the credential-hygiene lesson for smaller businesses.