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Security News — 5 August 2026

A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 8 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 5 August 2026 · 17 items.

Top 5 to watch today

  1. CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog exploited CISA Current Activity
  2. Don't Revoke That Token Yet: Inside the keyv/cacheable npm Worm, (Wed, Aug 5th) SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)
  3. ​​Microsoft named a Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) Microsoft Security Blog
  4. Over 250 ClickFix Domains Use Browser Fingerprinting to Hide macOS Malware Lures The Hacker News
  5. From open lures to cloaked gates: How a macOS ClickFix campaign learned to hide Microsoft Security Blog

Urgent Vulnerabilities 1

Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.

CISA Current Activity05 Aug

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

KEV · exploitedRansomware
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
JetBrains TeamCity
Impact
Insecure deserialization
Action
Patch per vendor / CISA KEV

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-63077 JetBrains TeamCity Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability This type of vulnerabil…

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Threat Activity 11

Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.

Breaches & Incidents 1

Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.

Research & Detection 2

Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.

Policy & Commentary 2

Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.

Schneier on Security05 Aug

Vulnerabilities in Car Anti-Theft Device

This is disturbing: …a team of security researchers at UC San Diego, who found that a model of aftermarket car alarm known as the KARR Security System, installed in more than 2 million vehicles across the US by their estimate, can let any…

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Daniel Miessler05 Aug

Why Aren’t Things Worse?

Dense branching mass compressed through a mechanical iris bottleneck/images/why-arent-things-worse-header.webp/images/why-arent-things-worse-header.webp One of the things I’ve been thinking about for years, but more acutely now because of…

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