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Security News — 13 August 2026
A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 5 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 13 August 2026 · 15 items.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 1
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
BleepingComputer13 Aug
KEV · exploited
- Exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- Product
- Adobe Commerce and Magento
- Impact
- Improper authorization
- Action
- Patch per vendor / CISA KEV
Attempts to exploit a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-71362) in Adobe's Commerce and Magento e-commerce platforms have been detected, potentially allowing attackers to hijack customer accounts. [...]
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Threat Activity 9
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
The Hacker News13 Aug
Exploited
The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor targeting defense and aerospace comp…
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BleepingComputer13 Aug
A new Android NFC relay malware called WindRelay is being used alongside the SpyNote remote administration tool (RAT) to steal live card data and send it to attackers in real time. [...]
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BleepingComputer13 Aug
More than 737 browser extensions published on the Chrome Web Store impersonated well-known VPN and proxy services while routing users' traffic through SOCKS5 proxies operated by a single provider. [...]
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The Hacker News13 Aug
A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users seeking access to blocked services with an aim to intercept browser traffic and route them through a proxy infrastructure. The exten…
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BleepingComputer13 Aug
An ongoing data theft campaign uses custom tools to steal data exposed to anonymous users through Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow customer portals. [...]
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Dark Reading13 Aug
The "City-Forum" campaign has been active since at least March 2025 and has targeted organizations across multiple sectors with custom tooling.
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Dark Reading13 Aug
The big-box giant has scaled its defenses by encouraging trust and innovation. Good communications, transparency, and team spirit are key factors.
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The Hacker News13 Aug
A newly disclosed flaw in the way OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google carried hidden AI reasoning between API calls let researchers recover internal reasoning and secrets from session logs, including API keys and passwords. The weakness affected…
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The Hacker News13 Aug
Enterprise defenses are tuned to catch the attacks that make noise. This year's data shows attackers winning by making none. According to Picus Labs' new Blue Report 2026, which measured more than 338 million real attack simulations across…
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Breaches & Incidents 1
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
Dark Reading13 Aug
Attackers continue to target critical infrastructure and government-linked organizations in the country, mirroring the increased activity across Latin America.
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Research & Detection 3
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)13 Aug
A couple of days ago, Xavier posted about Atuin to gain more insight into the command history. Atuin does a great job of better organizing what is usually handled by "bash&#;x26;#;x5f;history"&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;and collecting meanin…
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Dark Reading13 Aug
Walmart co-locates red and blue teams to build trust and improve security through collaborative purple teaming exercises
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)13 Aug
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Policy & Commentary 1
Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
Schneier on Security13 Aug
This seems to work : Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down att…
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