A vCenter Flaw Took 361 Victims In About 72 Hours, And Then It Was Over
CVE-2026-59310 was disclosed on 29 July, exploited from 3 August, and 95 per cent of the campaign's eventual victims wer...
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GeoServer Was Probed Within Hours of a Disclosure That Had No CVE
An unauthenticated SQL injection reaching remote code execution was posted publicly on 12 August. Scanning began within...
Most Exploitation Now Lands Within 48 Hours of the Proof of Concept
CrowdStrike puts 88 per cent of observed proof-of-concept exploitation inside two days, and two China-linked groups insi...
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Gunra Defeated Multi-Factor Authentication by Editing the Authentication Server
A six-agency advisory documents operators who altered a virtual desktop authentication portal so an attacker-chosen one-...
Eight Agents, Four Days, and a Government That Calls It Hybrid
Taiwan confirms AI agent-assisted attacks on government agencies in July. A vendor calls it near-autonomous; the ministr...
Zoom's Zero-Click Took One Day and Fewer Than 20 Prompts
Zoom patched four flaws in its annotation protocol on 11 August. The researchers say they went from decompiled binary to...
Ransomware Went After the 46-Year-Old Manager, Not the Administrator
Zscaler tracked 351 victims across 334 organisations in one campaign. Sixty-two per cent were managers or above, the ave...
799 Ransomware Attacks in July. Victims Confirmed 51 of Them.
July produced 799 ransomware attacks by the standard count, second only to March in 2026. Victims confirmed 51 of them....
The Snowflake Extortionist Pleaded Guilty. The Way In Was Still Just a Password.
Connor Riley Moucka, 26, pleaded guilty on 6 August over the campaign that took data from more than 165 organisations us...
Southeast Asia Hosts the Scam Compounds. East Asia and Australasia Lose the Money
UNODC puts 2025 scam losses at US$88.3–114.1 billion across three sub-regions. On its own breakdown South-East Asia acco...
ThreatBook Puts a Number on APAC's Year: 15,205 Incidents, and Indonesia Growing Fastest
The firm's first mid-year Asia-Pacific report covers twelve months and more than nineteen markets. Singapore ranks sixth...
An AI Agent Ran Unsupervised Inside Thailand's Finance Ministry — Doing the Legwork, Not the Break-In
Researchers recovered five logs showing an open-source AI agent enumerating a ministry host without per-command approval...
Cold-Chain Shutdown in Japan, AI in Two Attack Chains, and Eight New Ransomware Listings
Nichirei lost four days of refrigerated logistics to a server compromise. An Iranian-linked group is using generative AI...
A Grid Attack That Needs No Grid Access — and the Conditions Everyone Dropped
Bit2Watt rents GPUs and modulates their load. No CVE, no privilege escalation, no substation. We read the paper: six GPU...
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