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β€ŠCritical Progress LoadMaster flaw now actively exploited in attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are exploiting a critical-severity Progress Kemp LoadMaster command injection vulnerability. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-critical-progress-loadmaster-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/
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β€ŠMember of The Com sent to prison for blackmail, sextortion

A member of "The Com," a loose-knit online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers, has been sentenced to two years in prison for blackmail and sextortion offenses against nearly 120 victims worldwide. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/member-of-the-com-sent-to-prison-for-blackmail-sextortion/
β€ŠWhen Credentials Are No Longer Enough: Device Trust in the AI Era

AI is making phishing, credential theft, and social engineering faster and more efficient, while traditional trust signals such as passwords, MFA, IP reputation, and geolocation become easier to bypass. Specops explains why organizations are increasingly adding device trust to their Zero Trust strategies. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/when-credentials-are-no-longer-enough-device-trust-in-the-ai-era/
β€ŠCISA: SonicWall SMA1000 flaws now exploited by ransomware gangs

CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-sonicwall-sma1000-flaws-now-exploited-by-ransomware-gangs/
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β€ŠBdThemes plugins supply-chain hack creates rogue WordPress admins

A threat actor compromised the upstream infrastructure of BdThemes, a developer of premium WordPress web-design tools, and modified a remote JSON feed delivered to administrators' browsers to create rogue admin accounts. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bdthemes-plugins-supply-chain-hack-creates-rogue-wordpress-admins/
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β€ŠHackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year

Hackers breached a heat-and-power plant facility in Poland, which supplies heat to about 50,000 residents, using a private APN (Access Point Name) to access an OT (Operational Technology) network. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breached-a-small-polish-energy-plant-via-private-apn-last-year/
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β€ŠCisco warns of high-severity ClamAV flaws with public exploits

Cisco warned of two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Endpoint Connector that allow threat actors to crash the ClamAV scanning process in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-warns-of-high-severity-clamav-flaws-with-public-exploits/
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β€ŠDDoS attacks over 1 Tbps surged fivefold in the second quarter

Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ddos-attacks-over-1-tbps-surged-fivefold-in-the-second-quarter/
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β€ŠVague Task, Total Access: When AI Delegation Becomes a Security Risk

AI agents can improvise beyond the intended scope of a task when they are given broad access to enterprise systems and data. Token Security explains why organizations need to define agent intent and continuously enforce permissions around what each agent was actually created to do. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vague-task-total-access-when-ai-delegation-becomes-a-security-risk/
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β€ŠWindows 11 KB5121003 & KB5120240 cumulative updates released

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5121003 and KB5120240 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, bugs, and add new features. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5121003-and-kb5120240-cumulative-updates-released/
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β€ŠMicrosoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 400 flaws, 3 zero-days

Today is Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a massive 400 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-august-2026-patch-tuesday-fixes-400-flaws-3-zero-days/
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β€ŠDelta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees

Delta Air Lines is investigating an unauthorized Wi-Fi network that appeared aboard a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta carrying passengers who had attended the DEF CON hacker convention. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/delta-probes-wi-fi-deauth-attack-on-flight-carrying-def-con-attendees/
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