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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.

Top 5 to watch today

  1. Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor exploited The Hacker News
  2. Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts exploited BleepingComputer
  3. Ransomware Hits Colombian Justice Ministry Days Before Presidential Transition Dark Reading
  4. Android malware combo takes out loans and relays victims' credit cards BleepingComputer
  5. Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy BleepingComputer

Urgent Vulnerabilities 1

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

BleepingComputer13 Aug

Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts

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.

Breaches & Incidents 1

Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.

Research & Detection 3

Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.

SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)13 Aug

Linux Kernel Process Accounting, (Wed, Aug 12th)

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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Policy & Commentary 1

Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.

Schneier on Security13 Aug

Prompt Injections for Defense

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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