Patch Tuesday: Update now to fix 421 flaws, including three zero-days

Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 421 Microsoft vulnerabilities, including 62 rated Critical. One Windows vulnerability has been exploited in the wild by the Lazarus group to gain SYSTEM privileges. The August update is smaller than July’s record-breaking release, but it’s still among Read More …

Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks

Two Polish security researchers wanted to find out how vulnerable their country’s internet was to potential cyberattacks and quickly found that thousands of public agencies and websites were at risk of being hacked. At the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Read More …

Buggy microcontrollers making up some of the world’s most important servers can be easily backdoored

Security researchers have discovered more than a dozen new vulnerabilities in Baseboard management controllers (BMC), hardware components found in thousands of the world’s most popular enterprise servers. BMCs are specialized chips built into servers that allow administrators to remotely monitor and Read More …

Apple’s Private Relay tool can leak users’ IP addresses

WebKit, Apple’s engine that powers all web browsers in its ecosystem, contained multiple flaws that helped leak the IP addresses of users who paid to keep them hidden. This is according to security researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk who noted they Read More …

Token Jacking: Cybercriminals Could Be Stealing Your AI Resources

It’s three a.m., do you know what your AI agent is doing? Unit 42 has responded to a growing number of AI token jacking cases resulting in staggering financial losses. The financial loss comes from criminals gaining access to API Read More …

IBM’s agentic AI platform is under active attack – patch now

A critical vulnerability in IBM-owned, low-code AI builder Langflow lets unauthenticated attackers execute code remotely on vulnerable default deployments, potentially putting organizations running those instances at immediate risk. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added CVE-2026-9198 to its Known Read More …

TP-Link router owners update now — 15 flaws patched to stop hackers hijacking your devices

TP-Link has patched more than a dozen vulnerabilities across multiple business networking products which could have been chained to achieve remote code execution (RCE). Security researchers at Vedere Labs from Forescout found the flaws and published an in-depth report on the issues, Read More …

CVE-2026-18577: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild

On August 2, 2026, N-able published a security advisory for CVE-2026-18577, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting N-central that was discovered being exploited in-the-wild after an incomplete fix for an earlier authentication bypass issue, CVE-2026-18556 was disclosed. CVE-2026-18577 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication Read More …

Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added an exploited N-able vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, giving federal agencies three days to patch a flaw that could let attackers reach managed service provider (MSP) customers. Read More …

Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication

This article analyzes new attack classes against passwordless authentication, focusing on Google’s synced passkey ecosystem and the Cloud Authenticator used by desktop clients. The attacks demonstrate how malware on a compromised endpoint can misuse onboarding, recovery and device trust workflows Read More …