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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and vulnerabilities. Active exploitation of the critical F5 BIG-IP APM zero-day (CVE-2026-94127) allows unauthenticated remote code execution, prompting urgent updates from the vendor. Similarly, a newly identified WordPress vulnerability (CVE-2026-87902) has transitioned from probing to exploitation, enabling file writing and command execution. On another front, malicious AI agents have been implicated in large-scale phishing campaigns, compromising over 600,000 credit cards. Additionally, Check Point warns of active exploitation of a remote code execution flaw in its Security Gateway VPN. In the U.S., many federal agencies are falling short in complying with CISA's cloud security directives, increasing their risk of attack. Lastly, the cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims to have breached the FBI, demanding a retraction of a report detailing their activities.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2026 fixes 398 CVEs, including an actively exploited zero-day and a wormable DNS flaw enabling remote code execution. Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2026 on Tuesday, covering 398 new CVEs across Windows, Office, Azure, Exchange Ser...
The security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a new Microsoft zero-day called ShieldBreak.
The vulnerability, rooted in Microsoft Defender for Windows, demonstrates a patch bypass for...
Cisco has warned that a new vulnerability impacting Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software has been exploited in the wild.
The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20349 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of insufficient error check...
In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including default passwords and admin keys still held by former employees. He explains where post-quantum key sizes break old size assumptions in IPsec, SS...
PentestGPT is an open-source penetration testing agent that points a large language model at a target and lets it work. In its default mode it runs recon, then exploit, then walkthrough, each stage feeding the next. Switch it to pentest mode and the stages become asset discovery, vulnerability ident...
CVE-2026-20349 can be exploited remotely without authentication against Secure Firewall ASA and FTD devices.
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This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Amazon Smart Plug. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 4.3.
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to bypass certificate validation for OTA updates on affected installations of Amazon Smart Plug. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 6.8.
First, a bit of good news: Enterprise defenses are recovering. However, it’s a narrow recovery, with a twist. Today, organizations are better at stopping loud attacks but have barely moved the needle at all against the quiet ones. This data, and a lot more, comes straight from the newly published Bl...
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Amazon Smart Plug. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5.
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Home Assistant Green. An attacker must first obtain the ability to access the device's localhost interface. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5.
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This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Home Assistant Green. An attacker must first obtain the ability to access the device's localhost interface. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5.
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to initiate arbitrary server-side requests on affected installations of Home Assistant Green. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 5.4.
A seller on a cybercrime forum is offering a ready-made scam kit for $500, complete with an admin panel that tracks victims, checks their crypto wallets for value, and inflates fake balances to squeeze out more money, Malwarebytes found. Researchers discovered the scam project on May 16 and describe...
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to initiate arbitrary server-side requests on affected installations of Home Assistant Green. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 5.4.
CISOs and CTOs expect AI deployments to increase their organizations’ attack surface by an average of 14% over the next year. Nearly all lack visibility into AI deployments, and 90% are concerned about employees using unapproved AI tools outside formal oversight, according to NetFoundry’s 2026 State...
Business intelligence (BI) platform provider Metabase has disclosed a zero-day SQL Injection vulnerability, warning that customers’ sensitive credentials, tokens, API keys, and other data may have been exposed.
The Metabase vulnerability revealed on August 6, designated CVE...
Google says Chrome's anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026. [...]