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: 2026-006-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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2026-08-20 19:30 UTC
Security Journalism
The Record · indexed 2026-08-20 19:45 UTC
Suspected military-grade hackers based in China used artificial intelligence to develop malware in a campaign to penetrate Central Asian governments.
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2026-08-20 19:11 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Rob Wright, Alexander Culafi · indexed 2026-08-20 19:45 UTC
In this video, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, including some scary airplane security risks and the US government's newest "hack back" strategy.
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2026-08-20 18:40 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Blog · Preetkumar Shah · indexed 2026-08-20 18:45 UTC
As firewall rule sets grow in complexity, security teams face a common challenge: manual log analysis is used to determine which rules are actively matching traffic and which are consuming capacity without being triggered. This lack of visibility creates operational and compliance gaps. Organizations with governance policies that require removal of dormant rules after a […]
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2026-08-20 18:03 UTC
Other
Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-20 18:35 UTC
Manic Android malware combines banking fraud and spyware, using a Bluetooth relay to steal data even when devices are offline. ThreatFabric’s Mobile Threat Intelligence team has identified a new Android malware, dubbed Manic, which has been active in the wild since at least February 2026. The researchers state that the malware is still under development […]
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2026-08-20 18:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Talos Intelligence Blog · Mick Baccio · indexed 2026-08-20 18:10 UTC
In this week's newsletter, new author Mick Baccio introduces himself and explores the operational and security implications of the new White House memorandum regarding private sector participation in government-authorized offensive cyber operations.
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2026-08-20 17:53 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Bill Toulas · indexed 2026-08-20 18:00 UTC
Hackers compromised the maintainer account behind the widely used Rust crate arrayref to introduce malware that executed on developers' systems during compilation. [...]
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2026-08-20 17:39 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Nate Nelson · indexed 2026-08-20 17:50 UTC
The popular "Passportal" password manager, favored by MSPs and SMBs, remains risky even after its patch, thanks to its cloud-based design. Should these products stay away from the cloud entirely?
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2026-08-20 17:36 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-20 18:35 UTC
NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA warn of active AI-assisted attacks against Siemens S7 PLCs across US critical infrastructure sectors. Five U.S. federal agencies issued a joint advisory this week warning of an active hacking campaign against Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers. The advisory, CISA AA26-231A, is co-signed by NSA, FBI, DOE, and EPA […]
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2026-08-20 17:33 UTC
Security Journalism
The Record · indexed 2026-08-20 17:50 UTC
In a letter on Wednesday, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) criticized the company for having “knowingly withheld a critical safety measure for millions of American users."
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2026-08-20 17:32 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Arielle Waldman · indexed 2026-08-20 18:35 UTC
Law enforcement training is falling behind the volume and rapid evolution of cybercrimes. Officers really only need to learn the basics, but lack of focus and budget hinder progress.
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2026-08-20 17:23 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 18:50 UTC
A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and AI-assisted exploit research keep lowering the effort needed to cause damage. Nothing here needs
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2026-08-20 16:59 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 17:25 UTC
The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. That
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2026-08-20 14:59 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Nate Nelson · indexed 2026-08-20 14:35 UTC
A nation-state threat actor is picking on immature organizations run by the Taliban, but failing against more prepared government agencies in India.
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2026-08-20 14:39 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Bill Toulas · indexed 2026-08-20 14:50 UTC
A critical vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin could allow attackers to upload executable files for remote code execution on the server. [...]
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2026-08-20 14:36 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 16:10 UTC
Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI's Grok chatbot to send a user's name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user asks it to summarize an ordinary web page. The AI security company, which has codenamed the technique "Cryptographic Context Injection," said the
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2026-08-20 14:01 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Sponsored by Kaseya · indexed 2026-08-20 14:20 UTC
AI is making phishing attacks more personalized, convincing, and difficult for traditional email filters to detect. Kaseya explains how MSPs can monitor identity, email, and endpoint activity to detect and contain attacks that make it past the inbox. [...]
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2026-08-20 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-20 14:40 UTC
Written by: Gabby Roncone, Wesley Shields Overview Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is tracking three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters abusing legitimate authentication flows to target individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within the United States. Examples of these techniques can be found in our previous blog on UNC6293’s phishing operations. We now track an additio…
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2026-08-20 13:48 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 14:30 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm, a popular open-source sandbox with more than 2,900 stars and 190 forks on GitHub, that could allow attackers to escape the confines of the isolated environment. The vulnerability ("GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4"), which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, impacts all versions of the library before and including 7.0.0.
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2026-08-20 13:35 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 14:30 UTC
Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, including a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. According to the cloud computing and virtualization technology company, the issues affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including certain FIPS and NDcPP builds, as well as SecurAccess
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2026-08-20 13:30 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Jai Vijayan · indexed 2026-08-20 13:40 UTC
The banking Trojan, post-law enforcement takedown, is sprucing itself up with features that make detection and analysis harder.
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2026-08-20 13:24 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 14:30 UTC
A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), which refers to a case of command injection that can lead to remote code execution. "A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Zimbra
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2026-08-20 13:09 UTC
Community
SANS Internet Storm Center · indexed 2026-08-20 13:15 UTC
Building on the last diary on Using MS Graph and Powershell, let's look at "Risky" logins.
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2026-08-20 13:07 UTC
Other
Check Point Research · shlomoo@checkpoint.com · indexed 2026-09-07 17:30 UTC
Research by: Jiří Vinopal (@vinopaljiri) Abstract What if a trusted security component could be repurposed into an attacker-controlled kernel primitive? What if a signed Microsoft remediation driver could be instructed to execute arbitrary file and registry operations from Ring 0 – without exploits, vulnerabilities, or memory corruption? In this publication, we present the first full […] The post BTR Reforged: Weaponizing Defender’s Remediation Driver as a Kernel Operation Primitive appeared fi…
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2026-08-20 12:45 UTC
Community
SANS Internet Storm Center · indexed 2026-08-20 12:00 UTC
Microsoft Graph is a newer API that is meant to replace several others.  OK, it's at version 2.3.9, so it's not all that new, but it's new enough that lots of folks (and commercial tools) aren't using it yet.   It allows you to Get and Set info from/to M365, Entra Users and Entra managed machines for starters.  Let's dig in!
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2026-08-20 12:14 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Sergiu Gatlan · indexed 2026-08-20 12:20 UTC
Citrix has warned customers to immediately secure their systems against two vulnerabilities affecting NetScaler Gateway secure remote access solutions and NetScaler ADC networking appliances. [...]
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