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Security News — 18 August 2026

A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 7 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 18 August 2026 · 21 items.

Top 5 to watch today

  1. CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog exploited CISA Current Activity
  2. Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies BleepingComputer
  3. Linux Botnet Evooo1Bot Expands Mirai Capabilities Well Beyond DDoS Dark Reading
  4. Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Delete Public Projects The Hacker News
  5. Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads The Hacker News

Urgent Vulnerabilities 1

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

CISA Current Activity18 Aug

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
Ray-Project Ray
Impact
Code injection
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-2025-62593 Ray-Project Ray Code Injection Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent atta…

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Other CVEs 1

Lower-severity or unconfirmed-exploitation vulnerabilities.

Threat Activity 8

Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.

Breaches & Incidents 4

Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.

Daniel Miessler18 Aug

How AI Builders Will Get Hacked

How AI Builders Will Get Hacked/images/how-ai-builders-get-hacked.webp/images/how-ai-builders-get-hacked.webp If you are building stuff with AI I have a critical security recommendation for you. Create a continuously-running security testi…

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Research & Detection 3

Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.

SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)18 Aug

Apple Patches iOS and macOS, (Mon, Aug 17th)

Apple today released updates for iOS/iPadOS (26 and 18) and macOS 26. This update fixes 108 vulnerabilities and comes about two weeks after the much smaller macOS update that addressed the single screen-sharing vulnerability. This vulnerab…

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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)18 Aug

Apple Screen Sharing Security, (Mon, Aug 17th)

About 20 years ago, with macOS 10.5 (Leopard), Apple introduced screen sharing. Apple did not invent a new protocol for screen sharing. Instead, it used the established VNC protocol. VNC is a pretty simple, unencrypted protocol using TCP p…

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Policy & Commentary 4

Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.

Daniel Miessler18 Aug

How to Get Started in Cybersecurity 2026

A person vaulting on a machine lever toward a glowing keyhole/images/how-to-get-started-in-cybersecurity-2026.webp/images/how-to-get-started-in-cybersecurity-2026.webp I've been writing versions of this guide since 2008. The most recent bi…

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Schneier on Security18 Aug

Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials

Criminals are hacking into public Wi-Fi devices—at hotels, conference centers, and so on—around the world and changing their DNS settings. The goal is to redirect users to fake login pages and steal their credentials.

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Daniel Miessler18 Aug

Fix Execution, Not the SOP

A flood of documents pours into a funnel that drips onto a tiny model a man is polishing, while real unbuilt work waits through an open door/images/fix-execution-not-the-sop.webp/images/fix-execution-not-the-sop.webp AI is multiplying the…

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Daniel Miessler18 Aug

Stolen Authority

Stolen Authority/images/stolen-authority.webp/images/stolen-authority.webp We need to label this parasitic marketing technique with an adequately strong term. Stolen Authority. From stolen Valorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_valor It…

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