August 2026

Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind

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Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind 2026-08-21 at 11:41 By Eduard Kovacs Two industry surveys released this week by Kiteworks and CyberSheath paint a consistent picture of the defense industrial base. The post Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article […]

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Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches

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Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches 2026-08-21 at 11:12 By Ionut Arghire Most of the fixes resolve code execution, privilege escalation, and information disclosure vulnerabilities. The post Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Citrix urges customers to fix critical NetScaler authentication bypass (CVE-2026-19490)

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Citrix urges customers to fix critical NetScaler authentication bypass (CVE-2026-19490) 2026-08-21 at 10:55 By Sinisa Markovic Citrix has patched two vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including a critical authentication bypass flaw tracked as CVE-2026-19490, and is urging customers to upgrade affected appliances as soon as possible. “We strongly recommend that customers review the […]

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Endpoint Blind Spots: The 5 Places Ransomware Hides Before It Detonates

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Endpoint Blind Spots: The 5 Places Ransomware Hides Before It Detonates 2026-08-21 at 10:51 By Ashish Khaitan Ransomware rarely appears out of nowhere. Before encryption, extortion, or data theft begins, attackers often spend time establishing access, stealing credentials, moving laterally, and identifying valuable systems. These activities occur during the ransomware pre-execution phase, when malicious activity […]

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Bitcoin ETFs draw $608M as Ether ETFs see largest inflow since October

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Bitcoin ETFs draw $608M as Ether ETFs see largest inflow since October 2026-08-21 at 10:50 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Bitcoin ETF inflows pushed August’s total to a 2026 high of $2.07 billion as Bitcoin traded above $75,000 and Ether climbed to $2,357. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited TrueConf Vulnerabilities

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CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited TrueConf Vulnerabilities 2026-08-21 at 10:25 By Ionut Arghire The Head Mare hacktivist group has been exploiting the bugs to deploy the PhantomCore malware. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited TrueConf Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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GitLab 19.3 helps enterprises scale agentic development securely

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GitLab 19.3 helps enterprises scale agentic development securely 2026-08-21 at 10:12 By Industry News GitLab has announced updates that give enterprises more control as they scale agentic software development. GitLab Dedicated customers, who already run their most sensitive software delivery workloads on GitLab, can now run GitLab Duo Agent Platform inside that same single tenant […]

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GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure

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GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure 2026-08-21 at 10:04 By 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 […]

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Microsoft Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Wild, Allows Remote Code Execution

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Microsoft Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Wild, Allows Remote Code Execution 2026-08-21 at 09:06 By Microsoft on Thursday warned of a maximum-severity security flaw in Entra ID that it said has been exploited in the wild, but noted that no customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-69836 (CVSS score: 10.0), is […]

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A $25 template helped scammers build hundreds of phantom bank domains

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A $25 template helped scammers build hundreds of phantom bank domains 2026-08-21 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic A phrase on a suspicious website turned into an investigation of phantom banks built to support scams, according to new research from Allure Security. Molly DeQuattro, the company’s VP of Operations, was reviewing a domain that resembled the […]

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Nearly half of enterprises have no one leading PQC migration

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Nearly half of enterprises have no one leading PQC migration 2026-08-21 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprises believe they are prepared for the security challenges posed by quantum computing, but gaps in ownership, testing and visibility could complicate their transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), according to new research from Axiad. Who owns PQC migration? (Source: […]

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New infosec products of the week: August 21, 2026

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New infosec products of the week: August 21, 2026 2026-08-21 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from F5 Networks, Intezer, Netscout, and Tufin. NETSCOUT expands Adaptive DDoS Protection with outbound attack mitigation NETSCOUT has announced an extension of its Adaptive DDoS Protection […]

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Army unit offering 4 bonus off days upon release of Grand Theft Auto VI to soldiers who reenlist

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Army unit offering 4 bonus off days upon release of Grand Theft Auto VI to soldiers who reenlist 2026-08-21 at 01:06 By Associated Press Commanders of the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, believe free time to indulge in the latest entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. This article is an […]

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Bitcoin breaks above 200-day moving average for first time since November

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Bitcoin breaks above 200-day moving average for first time since November 2026-08-21 at 00:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The BTC price reclaimed its 200-day moving average for the first time in nine months as its rally gained momentum after the US Treasury expanded its bond buybacks. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News […]

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CFTC chair says agency will move forward on crypto regulation if CLARITY fails

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CFTC chair says agency will move forward on crypto regulation if CLARITY fails 2026-08-20 at 23:56 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Michael Selig said at a meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee that he had directed CFTC staff to explore developer protections and other crypto-related policies. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View […]

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Binance opens crypto trading to AI agents with user-set controls

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Binance opens crypto trading to AI agents with user-set controls 2026-08-20 at 23:26 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Binance’s Agent OS lets AI agents access market data, execute trades and make payments while giving users control over permissions and account access. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

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Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads 2026-08-20 at 23:22 By 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. […]

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Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

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Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts 2026-08-20 at 22:59 By 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 […]

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ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More

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ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More 2026-08-20 at 22:12 By 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 […]

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New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

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New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data 2026-08-20 at 21:12 By 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 […]

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