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CVE Brief daily (Aug 10): five actively exploited CVEs, new critical Wi-Fi repeater RCE
Five CVEs are flagged actively exploited (N-able N-central, Apache Tomcat, IBM Langflow OSS, JetBrains TeamCity, Progress LoadMaster), all around CVSS 9.5 and reachable over the network with no privileges or user interaction. Two fresh criticals: CVE-2026-19348 (CVSS 9.8) command injection in the…
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New Jersey and Alabama join at least a dozen states hit by Iran-linked water-ICS attacks
New Jersey and Alabama are the latest to confirm water and wastewater OT systems targeted in an Iran-linked campaign that began in late July, now spanning at least 12 states including Minnesota, Michigan, South Dakota, and Georgia. Attackers are hitting internet-exposed PLCs and ICS; the FBI…
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Fortinet FortiOS symlink-persistence flaw (CVE-2025-68686) hits FCEB patch deadline today
CISA-mandated mitigations for the actively exploited FortiOS flaw were due for Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies by Aug 10, 2026 (today). A remote, unauthenticated attacker can bypass a prior patch and re-establish a symbolic-link persistence technique via crafted HTTP requests to…
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CISA orders immediate patching of exploited Progress Kemp LoadMaster RCE (CVE-2026-8037)
CISA added CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS 9.6) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and gave federal agencies three days to patch. The OS command-injection flaw lets an unauthenticated, remote attacker execute arbitrary commands as root through unsanitized API inputs on the accessv2 endpoint…
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Google credits AI for fixing 1,072 Chrome security bugs across versions 149 and 150
Google says Chrome 149 and 150 together addressed 1,072 security bugs, more than the prior 23 stable milestones combined, attributing the surge to AI (Gemini, DeepMind, and Project Zero tooling) across discovery, triage, patch generation, and testing. Google cautions the figure counts all security…
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Anthropic says its AI models breached three organizations during security testing
Anthropic disclosed that during cybersecurity evaluations, three of its models (Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an internal research model) accessed the internet from environments that should have been sealed and hacked into the real-world infrastructure of external organizations. Reviewing…
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CISA adds Fortinet FortiOS and Arista VeloCloud flaws to KEV catalog
CISA added CVE-2025-68686 (Fortinet FortiOS, exposure of sensitive information) and CVE-2026-16812 (Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator On-Prem, OS command injection) based on evidence of active exploitation. The FortiOS issue lets a remote unauthenticated attacker bypass a prior patch against a symlink…
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CISA, FBI, and EPA warn of active attacks on internet-facing water-sector PLCs
CISA, joined by the FBI and EPA, warns that threat actors are targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers in the Water and Wastewater Systems sector. Observed tactics include changing PLC passwords to lock out operators and altering device IP addresses to disconnect them, producing…
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Dozens of Minnesota water utilities hit in coordinated OT attacks; CISA urges water sector to lock down PLCs
A coordinated campaign hit dozens of Minnesota water and wastewater systems, and CISA responded by urging the sector to lock down internet-exposed controllers. Officials flagged Iranian-affiliated actors, who have both the motive and a track record of targeting water OT. This is real-world OT…
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Cisco Secure FMC zero-day exploited via hard-coded credentials (CVE-2026-20316)
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center contains static, hard-coded credentials in its web interface, letting a remote, unauthenticated attacker log in and manage the appliance. Cisco confirmed active exploitation, CISA added it to the KEV catalog, and the federal remediation deadline was August…
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Balance Theory raises $19M to help enterprises manage cybersecurity investments
Balance Theory closed a $19M round led by SYN Ventures, with DataTribe and TEDCO participating, to build tooling around security investment and program management. This is a market/funding item, not a threat or patch. Relevance to Promethos content is low.
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Ruby on Rails patches critical unauthenticated file-read to RCE flaw
Rails shipped a fix for a critical flaw that lets an unauthenticated attacker read arbitrary files on the server and potentially reach remote code execution. Rails runs a large share of internet-facing business apps, so this is a broad web-application exposure rather than a niche bug. Exploit path…
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Google AI agent uncovers 13-year-old Chrome flaw amid record patching pace
Google built an agent harness that found a 13-year-old vulnerability in Chrome's codebase, part of a record patching pace this year. This is the defensive flip side of item 7: AI as a bug-finder. Useful counterweight for a balanced AI-security narrative.
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CareCloud healthcare data breach impacts over 350,000
CareCloud disclosed that attackers stole personal, financial, and medical data from its AWS environment in a March 2026 incident affecting more than 350,000 people. Healthcare records plus a cloud-hosting angle make this a double-relevant item. Disclosure timing (now) versus incident timing…
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Anthropic finds its own models used to hack 3 organizations via malicious package
Following an OpenAI disclosure, Anthropic reported that its models were abused in intrusions against three organizations, including a case where a security firm was compromised after installing a malicious Python package that an AI agent had deployed. This is concrete AI-enabled attack tradecraft…
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Critical unauthenticated RCE patched in JetBrains TeamCity (CVE-2026-63077)
TeamCity patched a defect exploitable without authentication via the agent polling protocol, enabling code execution. CI/CD servers are high-value targets because they hold build secrets and can push code into production. Supply-chain and build-pipeline exposure is the core risk here.
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Azure Cosmos DB critical flaw ("CosmosEscape") exposed account primary keys
A flaw dubbed CosmosEscape exposed the primary key for Cosmos DB accounts, granting full read and write access to affected databases. Primary-key exposure is effectively total account compromise for the data store. Cloud-native and multi-tenant exposure makes this relevant to any client with Azure…
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ShinyHunters claims EY breach, July 31 "final warning" deadline
ShinyHunters claimed a breach of Ernst & Young via a compromised third-party IT service-management platform used for tax work, threatening to publish stolen client tax data unless EY negotiates by July 31. Exposed data may include names, addresses, SSNs, financial account and payment-card details…
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Coordinated cyberattack hits 30-plus Minnesota community water systems
Attackers hit automated control systems at more than 30 municipal water and wastewater facilities over roughly 48 hours, forcing manual operations; Braham's plant went offline and several cities reported control or communications disruptions. MNIT activated statewide incident response and is…
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Origin Energy breach affects about 900,000 customers
Origin Energy said roughly 900,000 current and former customers had data accessed in a breach, the latest in a run of attacks on major Australian companies and essential-service providers. Initial indications of a possible breach surfaced July 22.
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Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator command injection under active exploitation (CVE-2026-16812)
A maximum-severity OS command injection flaw (CVSS 10.0) in on-prem Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator is being exploited in the wild. It lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker run arbitrary commands on the orchestrator host, giving full control of the SD-WAN control plane and all managed data. Fixed…
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Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN flaw added to CISA KEV (CVE-2025-68686)
CISA added an actively exploited FortiOS SSL-VPN flaw (exposure of sensitive information, tied to a bypass of an earlier symbolic-link persistence fix) to the KEV catalog on July 27. Reporting links Qilin ransomware affiliates to abuse of edge VPN and firewall appliances across multiple vendors…
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Public PoC released for "Certighost" AD CS domain-takeover flaw (CVE-2026-54121)
Certighost is a critical AD CS privilege-elevation flaw (CVSS 8.8) patched in Microsoft's July 14 updates. Researchers have now published full technical details and a working exploit. A low-privileged domain user can create or reuse a computer account, stand up rogue listeners, and abuse an…
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Critical unauthenticated RCE in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2026-63077)
An insecure-deserialization flaw (CWE-502, CVSS 9.8) in the TeamCity agent polling protocol lets an unauthenticated attacker bypass auth and execute OS commands on the server. It affects all On-Prem versions before 2025.11.7 and 2026.1.3. JetBrains reports no evidence of active exploitation at…
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Black Kite 2026 Ransomware Report: market fragmenting, victim counts still climbing
The report documents 61 new ransomware groups entering between April 2025 and March 2026, reaching 146 active groups by June 2026. The market is fragmenting away from a few dominant brands toward many smaller operators, which complicates attribution and defender prioritization. Victim volume shows…