A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 9 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 7 August 2026 · 18 items.
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-8037 Progress LoadMaster Command Injection Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequen…
Read at source →Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
A critical Metabase SQL injection vulnerability was exploited in zero-day attacks to breach customer instances in data theft attacks, known to impact Framework and Tally. [...]
Read at source →WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai demonstrated how the flaw can be chained into PHP code execution on…
Read at source →View CSAF Summary ATN-B1 CPDLC relies on legacy clear text unauthenticated radio frequency links. Research demonstrates that these characteristics allow unauthorized message injection, denial-of-service conditions, and forced session reset…
Read at source →A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatte…
Read at source →ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is de…
Read at source →A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are open to bypass.
Read at source →Identity-based attacks drive 90% of incidents. Learn how modern attackers exploit identities and what SOC leaders can do to respond. The post Inside the Modern SOC: The Identity Front Door appeared first on Unit 42 .
Read at source →Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) says that hackers used social engineering on three of its employees to gain access to and steal corporate data stored on their machines. [...]
Read at source →Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
Healthcare software company Unlimited Technology Systems reported that more than 3.8 million people were impacted by a data breach incident that occurred in October 2025. [...]
Read at source →A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services has been attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. "UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterpr…
Read at source →Gen's H1 2026 Threat Report examines two separate attack chains. One used compromised business inboxes and browser manipulation in a banking-malware campaign, while the other used clipboard hijacking to redirect cryptocurrency payments. [.…
Read at source →Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
UNIX systems (including Linux) are well-known to record a lot of activities in many different locations. But there is one domain where they definitely lack of "modern" logging: shells. Most shells provide an historization of the typed comm…
Read at source →Agent-parented reverse tunnels and LaunchAgents can expose a local admin app to the internet. Endpoint still needs to treat that as high severity even when the activity looks like vibe-coded ops, not confirmed malware.
Read at source →A 40-line CEL integration snapshots .npmrc files every 6 hours to catch cooldown removals. This post walks through the three ways we broke filestream before landing on snapshot semantics.
Read at source →Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
Nice video of the Arctic bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Read at source →Through data brokers, ICE is buying the information you provided to open a credit card.
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