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Today's cybersecurity landscape features several critical incidents and emerging threats. Notably, Binance has fallen victim to a record-breaking $6.3 billion hack, attributed to North Korean hackers who compromised a DevOps engineer's laptop. Meanwhile, a malicious version of the Claude Code extension was distributed, potentially exposing 5,000 developers to SSH backdoors. Additionally, Drupal has reported a critical vulnerability in its Commerce Core module being actively exploited, urging immediate patching. California officials are investigating alleged election fraud, raising concerns about federal intrusion in state elections. Lastly, the ongoing PHP2Shell attacks target numerous systems, including Palo Alto firewalls, emphasizing the need for heightened vigilance against evolving cyber threats.
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This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Oracle VirtualBox. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target guest system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5. The...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Oracle VirtualBox. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target guest system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating...
In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028, 70% of large SOCs will pilot AI agents to augment Tier 1 and Tier 2 operations, but only 15% will achieve measurable improvements without structured eva...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Oracle VirtualBox. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target guest system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5. The...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Fortinet FortiSandbox. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.2. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-84387.
Every AWS API call, CloudFront video stream, and Route 53 lookup crosses the same infrastructure, which AWS calls its border network. It now runs on a routing system rebuilt from scratch over several years. The system that tells traffic where to go The scale AWS reports, current as of the post: 39 r...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Progress Software Kemp LoadMaster. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.2. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-8037.
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of VMware Workstation. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target guest system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5. Th...
Microsoft on Tuesday broke Patch Tuesday records by addressing an earth-shattering 974 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including two flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild.
These include 723 flaws in Windows, 111 in Office and Office 2016, 62 in SQL, and 22 in...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Linux Kernel. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.8.
This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Backblaze Personal Computer Backup. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigne...
Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them into something that will actually run against your controls. That somebody has always been a human red team. Up until a few months ago, turning a major new...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Backblaze Personal Computer Backup. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigne...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Backblaze Personal Computer Backup. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigne...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by September 11, 2026.
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This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Backblaze Personal Computer Backup. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigne...
This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Backblaze Personal Computer Backup. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigne...
A monthly review of Australian and New Zealand cyber security incidents, data breaches, privacy reform, AI governance developments, audit findings, scams, and regulatory updates for August 2026.
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The open source cleaner BleachBit reached version 6.0.4 this week, erasing caches, browser traces, and files on Windows, Linux, and now macOS. If you shredded a sensitive file on Windows with an earlier build, parts of it may still sit on the disk where the wipe missed. Fragmentation is the ordinary...
Possibly wormable bugs and two zero-day holes highlight the almost 1,000 fixes issued today by Microsoft in its September Patch Tuesday release.
The 964 vulnerabilities, another record since Microsoft began using AI in the middle of the year to find holes, require customer...