Cybersecurity
Microsoft says KB5120998 Windows update resets desktop settings
Microsoft has confirmed that desktop settings are lost or reset on some Windows devices after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update. [...]
US Becomes Top Target in RMM Phishing Campaign Spanning 46 Countries
An RMM phishing campaign initially associated with Canadian targeting due to its use of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) tax forms as lures has turned out to be part of a broader campa…
Plex warns users to patch security vulnerabilities immediately
Plex urged users this week to update their desktop clients and media servers immediately to patch multiple security vulnerabilities. [...]
Attackers Turn Trusted Node.js Runtime Into Malware Delivery Tool in Targeted Attacks
Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads. According to a new report published by the Sym…
Shai-Hulud's Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here's What That Means
In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environm…
Microsoft Teams, Outlook fail to launch on ARM-based Windows PCs
Microsoft is working to fix a known issue that causes crashes and launch failures for Microsoft Teams and New Outlook users after installing updates released since the August 2026…
Pegasus Zero-Click Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member's iPhone
The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia's student protest movement was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboratio…
Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon
The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank, a privilege escalation…
CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after they landed in …
Hackers exploit Sangoma Switchvox flaw to deploy reverse shells
Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-9586, an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the Sangoma Switchvox VoIP platform that can lead to remote code execution. [...]
WordPress backup plugin flaw exposes millions of sites to takeover attacks
An SQL injection vulnerability in the All-in-One WP Migration and Backup plugin for WordPress could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute remote code and take control of affe…
Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI Unveil Cyber AI Models, Safeguards, and Access Programs
Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a new…
Fake Software Installers Disable Windows Update and Weaken Microsoft Defender
An active malware campaign is using bogus software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers. "The campaign has targeted users looking t…
Hackers exploit critical JFrog Artifactory flaw to forge admin tokens
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-82329) in JFrog Artifactory is being exploited in attacks to create tokens that provide administrative access. [...]
Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code
Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs o…
Ransomware protection for MSPs: A 6-point checklist for faster recovery
Ransomware resilience requires more than backups or endpoint detection alone. Acronis outlines six capabilities MSPs should test across client environments, from reducing exposure…
Malicious Apache Modules Hijack Brazilian Government Site Traffic to Push Betting Pages
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and edu…
BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access
Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtua…
Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw
Dropbox is warning some users that an unauthorized party accessed their accounts by exploiting a flaw in Lenovo's email verification process to register fraudulent Lenovo IDs. [..…
Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming c…
How to Secure Enterprise AI: From Adoption to Incident Readiness
The debate about whether AI delivers business value is over. The challenge now is implementing it at scale and securely across every function while meeting board-level pressure to…
Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain
SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day atta…
Microsoft Defender flags legitimate Google search links as malicious
Microsoft is investigating an issue causing the Defender for Office 365 security software to mistakenly block access to legitimate Google search links. [...]
GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends
Two vulnerabilities in GeoNetwork can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on the open-source geospatial metadata catalog, which sits behind many gove…