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Security News — 27 August 2026
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 27 August 2026 · 19 items.
Government & Critical Vulnerability Advisories
CISA Current Activity26 Aug
CISA has added six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2015-3246 Red Hat Libuser Race Condition Vulnerability CVE-2015-5287 Red Hat Automatic Bug Reportin…
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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories26 Aug
Most compromises do not rely on advanced techniques or cutting-edge tools. Cyber threat actors scan the internet looking for exposed, well-known software vulnerabilities to exploit. Basic security failures enable most compromises and organ…
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Primary Threat Research & Vendor Intelligence
Microsoft Security Blog26 Aug
Microsoft Threat Intelligence examines attacks on exposed AI workloads, including LiteLLM gateway exploitation, credential harvesting, persistence, and cryptomining activity. The post When AI infrastructure becomes the target: Securing gat…
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Cisco Talos26 Aug
Selecting a model for your security operations center (SOC) and digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tasks is important, but selecting the best one is more involved than you might think. Here's how to choose.
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Independent Investigative Journalism & Breaking News
BleepingComputer26 Aug
A critical vulnerability chain in the popular Avada theme for WordPress can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server. [...]
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Dark Reading26 Aug
GoCaracal is a new modular malware framework that broadens Dark Caracal's capabilities to steal data and maintain access to victims.
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Dark Reading26 Aug
North Korean operatives posing as IT workers are improving their tactics, but researchers say there are still ways to spot them before they do damage.
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BleepingComputer26 Aug
A newly disclosed Rowhammer attack called GPUThor can bypass error-correcting code (ECC) protections on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling denial-of-service (DoS) and root-level privilege escalation. [...]
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Dark Reading26 Aug
Threat actors behind a notorious click-fraud botnet have set their sights on vehicle infotainment modules and are abusing legitimate functionality to spread infections.
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The Hacker News26 Aug
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. T…
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BleepingComputer26 Aug
Meta has reached a proposed settlement worth up to approximately $18 billion with a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys generals over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately designed to encourage compulsive use by childr…
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The Hacker News26 Aug
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)…
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BleepingComputer26 Aug
Medical technology company Boston Scientific has been targeted in a cyberattack that disrupted some of its IT systems, causing operational disruptions globally. [...]
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The Hacker News26 Aug
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process.…
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The Hacker News26 Aug
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradec…
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Dark Reading26 Aug
The adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing service lowers the barrier to entry for actors to create attacks and steal more than just user credentials.
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Blue Team, Incident Response & Detection Engineering
SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)26 Aug
A common thing that folks should "worry" about in Entra (or any platform really) is "who has rights to administer"&#;x26;#;x3f;&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; Who can delete or change key things, or modify them in ways that might not be obvious…
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)26 Aug
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Security Executive, Architecture & Policy
Schneier on Security26 Aug
The New York Times has a long article ( alt link ) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI. Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing leve…
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