2026-08-21 11:21 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-21 12:35 UTC
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade's defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large datasets, and support faster decision-making. Cybersecurity has experienced a similar transformation. While attackers employ AI to automate
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2026-08-21 11:11 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-21 11:40 UTC
Google tracks three Russia-linked espionage clusters using phishing and legitimate authentication tools to target researchers, diplomats and defense staff. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group tracked three separate suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage clusters. All three focus on the same thing: abusing authentication features that are supposed to protect accounts to access them instead. Threat actors target researchers, […]
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2026-08-21 11:04 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Sergiu Gatlan · indexed 2026-08-21 11:10 UTC
Microsoft has patched multiple maximum-severity vulnerabilities in Entra ID, Azure Arc, and Exchange Online that allowed attackers to gain remote code execution and escalate privileges. [...]
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2026-08-21 11:00 UTC
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BleepingComputer · Bill Toulas · indexed 2026-08-21 11:10 UTC
Threat actors are abusing FTP banners to hide commands that deliver two previously undocumented remote access trojans named E4del and PINHOLE. [...]
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2026-08-21 10:10 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Ax Sharma · indexed 2026-08-21 10:25 UTC
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) says a cybersecurity incident exposed the personal information of some current and former employees and job applicants, stemming from a flaw in third-party software. Clinical systems and patient records were not affected. (264) [...]
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2026-08-21 10:03 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-21 11:25 UTC
Cisco has published another round of security updates for Crosswork platforms and Secure Workload Software as part of a continued comprehensive internal security review. Four of the security vulnerabilities affect Crosswork Data Gateway, Crosswork Network Controller, and Crosswork Planning, regardless of the device configuration. A brief description of each of the flaws is below -
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2026-08-21 09:49 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-22 23:30 UTC
GitLab flaw CVE-2026-19478 is now under active exploitation, allowing unauthenticated attackers to modify or delete public projects. WatchTowr researchers warn of active exploitation of critical GitLab flaw CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score of 9.4). This week, GitLab pushed out an emergency patch to address this flaw, which could let an attacker with zero credentials remotely modify or […]
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2026-08-21 09:49 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-21 10:40 UTC
GitLab flaw CVE-2026-19478 is now under active exploitation, allowing unauthenticated attackers to modify or delete public projects. WatchTowr researchers warn of active exploitation of critical GitLab flaw CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score of 9.4). This week, GitLab pushed out an emergency patch to address this flaw, which could let an attacker with zero credentials remotely modify or […]
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2026-08-21 09:14 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-21 09:40 UTC
CERT Polska confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-73570, a critical unauthenticated RCE in Zimbra Collaboration Suite patched on July 20. CERT Polska, Poland’s national computer emergency response team, confirmed this week that threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite tracked as CVE-2026-73570. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote code execution and was […]
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2026-08-21 08:22 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-21 09:40 UTC
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds TrueConf Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: TrueConf Server is an on-premises video conferencing and unified communications platform developed by TrueConf. Organizations can deploy it on their […]
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2026-08-21 07:15 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-21 08:20 UTC
Cl0p claims over 40 organizations fell victim to attacks exploiting a PTC Windchill and FlexPLM vulnerability. Cl0p is using a familiar strategy again: exploit one flaw in enterprise software to attack many companies, then publish the victims’ names if they refuse to pay. The group claims it has targeted more than 40 organizations through a […]
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2026-08-21 07:04 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-21 08:15 UTC
A newly disclosed security flaw in GitLab has come under active exploitation within days of public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score: 9.4), a case of code injection that allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify or delete publicly accessible GitLab projects and rewrite their data under certain conditions without requiring
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2026-08-21 06:06 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-21 06:45 UTC
Update: The story was updated after publication to note that the vulnerability has not been exploited. Although the security bulletin originally marked the "Exploited" field under the Exploitability Assessment table as "Yes," on August 21, 2026, Microsoft corrected the "Exploited" status to "No" after The Hacker News contacted the company for comment. It also noted, "this vulnerability was not
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2026-08-21 02:47 UTC
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SANS Internet Storm Center · indexed 2026-08-21 02:55 UTC
In every MFA rollout, there will come a time where you think you are closing in on "done", and some automation to list what's left would be handy. Something quicker than scrolling through the web interface through thousands of accounts ...
 This is that method.
 Also, remember when we discussed yesterday about the beta graph commands in the Microsoft.Graph.Beta library? We'll use one of those beta commands here!
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2026-08-21 02:00 UTC
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SANS Internet Storm Center · indexed 2026-08-21 02:15 UTC
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2026-08-21 01:49 UTC
Community
SANS Internet Storm Center · indexed 2026-08-21 01:55 UTC
One thing that folks never seem to do after "going to the CLOOOOUUUUD" is to look at their logs, logs that they would have checked daily when things were on premise.
 One log that really bears looking at is the log of successful and failed logins. the call for that is:
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-005-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/03/02 14:30 PM PST Description: AWS-LC is an open-source, general-purpose cryptographic library. We identified three distinct issues: - CVE-2026-3336: PKCS7_verify Certificate Chain Validation Bypass in AWS-LC Improper certificate validation in PKCS7_verify() in AWS-LC allows an unauthenticated user to bypass certificate chain verification when processing PKCS7 objects with multiple signers,…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-003-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/01/23 12:30 PM PST Description: Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. Firecracker runs in user space and uses the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to create microVMs. Each Firecracker microVM is further isolated with common Linux user-space security barriers b…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-009-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/03/17 12:15 PM PDT Description: Kiro is an AI-powered IDE for agentic software development. We identified CVE-2026-4295, where improper trust boundary enforcement allowed arbitrary code execution when a user opened a maliciously crafted project directory. Impacted versions: < 0.8.0 Please refer to the article below for the most up-to-date and complete information related to this AWS Security…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-007-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/03/16 09:15 AM PDT Description: The AWS API MCP Server is an open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to interact with AWS services and resources through AWS CLI commands. It provides programmatic access to manage your AWS infrastructure while maintaining proper security controls. This server acts as a bridge between AI assistants and AWS services, allowing …
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-004-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/02/02 14:30 PM PST Description: CVE-2026-1777 - Exposed HMAC in SageMaker Python SDK SageMaker Python SDK’s remote functions feature uses a per‑job HMAC key to protect the integrity of serialized functions, arguments, and results stored in S3. We identified an issue where the HMAC secret key is stored in environment variables and disclosed via the DescribeTrainingJob API. This allows third p…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-002-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Informational Publication Date: 2026/01/15 07:03 AM PST Description: A security research team identified a configuration issue affecting the following AWS-managed open source GitHub repositories that could have resulted in the introduction of inappropriate code: - aws-sdk-js-v3 - aws-lc - amazon-corretto-crypto-provider - awslabs/open-data-registry Specifically, researchers identified the above repositories' configured regular expressions for A…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-001-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/01/09 13:15 PM PST Description: Kiro is an agentic IDE users install on their desktop. We identified CVE-2026-0830 where opening a maliciously crafted workspace may lead to arbitrary command injection in Kiro IDE before Kiro version 0.6.18. This may occur if the workspace has specially crafted folder names within the workspace containing injected commands. Resolution: Kiro IDE
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-008-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/03/16 11:15 AM PDT Description: A missing S3 ownership verification in the Bedrock AgentCore Starter Toolkit before version v0.1.13 may allow a remote actor to inject code during the build process, leading to code execution in the AgentCore Runtime. Impacted versions: All versions of Bedrock AgentCore Starter Toolkit versions before v0.1.13. This issue only affects users of the Bedrock Agent…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-010-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/03/19 13:30 PM PDT Description: AWS-LC is a general-purpose cryptographic library maintained by AWS. We identified CVE-2026-4428 affecting X.509 certificate verification. A logic error in the CRL (Certificate Revocation List) distribution point matching in AWS-LC allows a revoked certificate to bypass revocation checks during certificate validation, when the application enables CRL checking …
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-019-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/04/24 13:30 AM PDT Description: Multiple security issues have been identified in the tough library and tuftool CLI utility. tough is a Rust library used for generating, signing, and managing TUF (The Update Framework) repositories, and tuftool is the command-line interface for repository management Operations. The following issues have been identified: - CVE-2026-6966 - CVE-2026-6967 - CVE-2…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-006-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Informational Publication Date: 2026/03/03 10:15 AM PST Description: Amazon RDS/Aurora is a managed relational database service. We identified CVE-2026-3494. In MariaDB server version through 11.8.5, when server audit plugin is enabled with server_audit_events variable configured with QUERY_DCL, QUERY_DDL, or QUERY_DML filtering, if an authenticated database user invokes a SQL statement prefixed with double-hyphen (‐‐) or hash (#) style comment…
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2026-08-20 20:42 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · indexed 2026-08-20 21:30 UTC
Enterprise cybersecurity expert Jake Williams joins the Dark Reading News Desk to explain why he decided to release his new agentic AI framework in the wake of the OpenAI attacks on Hugging Face.
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2026-08-20 20:22 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 22:00 UTC
The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are arrayref 0.3.10, internment 0.8.7, and append-only-vec 0.1.9, all published from the same owner
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2026-08-20 19:59 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 20:30 UTC
Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within the U.S. These clusters include UNC6293, UNC7005, and UNC5976. "These clusters engage in persistent, adaptive
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