PaperCut Was Being Exploited for a Day Before It Had a CVE Number
The 27 August advisory confirmed active exploitation while carrying no identifier, no severity score and no vulnerabilit...
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Half the Carhartt Breach Data Was Fabricated
ShinyHunters claimed close to 25 million records. Troy Hunt filtered the dump before loading it and found 12,933,413 gen...
CISA Listed Two Flaws as Exploited. The Attacker Was OpenAI's Own Agent.
An agent noticed the kernel under its container was vulnerable, fetched a public exploit, adapted it and took root on th...
ASEAN's Record $4.12m Breach Cost Comes From 26 Companies
IBM discloses the sample size and the coverage drops it. The comparisons inside the study — 123 days faster detection wh...
The Unitree Robot Bluetooth Flaw Was a Missing Cloud Check
Two root RCE chains against the G1 EDU, one starting over Bluetooth without pairing. The step that made it work was a se...
Two Charged Over the Worm That Reached a Thousand Organisations
Australian police, with the FBI, laid 14 charges over TeamPCP and the self-propagating Shai-Hulud worm. Researchers are...
Exploited Gitea Flaw Hinges on Repository Write Access
CVE-2026-60004 lets anyone who can push to a repo plant a Git hook and run shell commands as the service account. The pa...
Boston Scientific Cannot Ship, and That Is the Emergency
A cyber incident took out order processing and shipping worldwide at a maker of pacemakers and stents. Nothing suggests...
A Web Page Can Make Grok Decrypt Its Own Attack Instructions
Encrypted commands sit on a page in plain sight. A filter cannot read them because reading them means running AES. Grok'...
Microsoft Took Eight Months to Patch a One-Click Copilot Data Theft Chain
Varonis reported the chain in December 2025 and the fix shipped on 18 August 2026. In between, one link could make Copil...
The Zimbra Patch Was Out For A Month Before Anyone Noticed It Being Exploited
CVE-2026-73570 gives an unauthenticated attacker shell commands as the zimbra user, but only where an optional SNMP pack...
The Sandbox Everyone Uses To Run Untrusted JavaScript Can Be Escaped
A type-confusion flaw in isolated-vm's ExternalCopy lets sandboxed code corrupt host memory and potentially reach remote...
Cisco Found Nine Flaws In Its Own Network Automation Platform. Five Score 10.0.
The August hardening release for Crosswork and Secure Workload fixes SQL injection, missing authentication and file-syst...
Microsoft Fixed a Perfect-10 Entra ID Flaw Before Telling Anyone It Was Exploited
CVE-2026-69836 scores 10.0, needs no account and no user interaction, and was exploited in the wild. Microsoft mitigated...
Singapore Will Hold Infrastructure Boards Accountable for Recovery, Not Just Defence
CSA said on 22 July that the rewritten Code of Practice will require critical-infrastructure boards to maintain an annua...
A Ransomware Group Posted Its Demands On The Hospital's Own Facebook Page
AnMed closed 83 medical offices after a July attack, with ten still shut a week later. On 11 August the attackers took t...
A macOS Screen Sharing Bug Apple Called 7.1 Is Being Used To Root Macs
CISA rescored CVE-2026-65400 to 9.8 and catalogued it. Attackers are taking root on Macs with port 5900 exposed and inst...
Apple Patched An Image-Parsing Flaw, The Class That Starts Spyware Cases
CVE-2026-65346 is an integer overflow in ImageIO that could run code when a device processes a picture. No exploitation...
A WordPress Form Plugin Flaw Left 300,000 Sites Open, And The Patch Has Been Free Since July
CVE-2026-15748 gives an unauthenticated visitor a path from a contact form to a shell on Forminator installations. The f...
A Browser Can Now Reach Into the Framework Your AI Cluster Runs On
CVE-2025-62593 reaches Ray's unauthenticated job endpoints through a victim's browser, and one campaign turns unpatched...
A Unisoc Modem Flaw Turns an Answered Video Call Into Android Kernel Access
Researchers published the second stage of an exploit chain that crosses from modem firmware into the Android kernel. The...
Weaker Models Can Read a Frontier Model's Encrypted Reasoning
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google return reasoning to clients as encrypted blocks. Researchers replayed those blocks into che...
One Malformed Request Crashes the Firewall. CISA Gave Three Days.
CVE-2026-20349 lets an unauthenticated attacker reload a Cisco ASA or FTD firewall through the remote-access SSL VPN. Th...
GLM-5.3 Finds Bugs Like the Frontier. It Is 23 Points Behind at Using Them.
Z.ai's model edges Mythos 5 by 0.7 points on vulnerability detection and trails it by 23.6 on exploit development. The s...
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