Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
20 August 2026
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
20 August 2026
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
20 August 2026
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
20 August 2026
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
20 August 2026
Exploitation of the Zimbra Collaboration vulnerability CVE-2026-73570 has been observed by Poland’s CERT Polska.
The post Hackers Target Zimbra Servers in Active Exploitation Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
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
20 August 2026
We all know they’re watching us. But we don’t know who they are, nor why nor how they are doing it.
The post Surveillance – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
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.
20 August 2026
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
20 August 2026
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
20 August 2026
Operation CameraSwarm targeted Dahua cameras across multiple countries, focusing on Russian and CIS telecom netblocks.
The post Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
The flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary code, access sensitive information, and elevate privileges.
The post Atlassian, Splunk Patch Dozens of Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
The critical-severity flaw allows attackers to send HTTP requests to internal endpoints and extract sensitive information.
The post MLflow Vulnerability Exploited for Cloud Credential Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over near-field communication (NFC), without breaking any of the card's cryptography.
The attack, which the researchers named "Zombie Card," requires physical
20 August 2026
The flaws could lead to remote code execution, authentication bypasses, and path traversal attacks.
The post Cisco Patches Critical Crosswork, Secure Workload Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it.
The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on an internal forum. An engineer used an approved AI agent to analyze it, but the agent posted its response publicly without approval. The employee
20 August 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that exploit how major content delivery networks (CDNs) convert client-facing HTTP/3 traffic into HTTP/1.1 requests to the websites they front, amplifying a low-bandwidth request stream by up to 350x against the origin server.
The attacks, collectively named "CDN Tsunami," were evaluated against Alibaba, Baidu,
20 August 2026
A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions, global fintech and cryptocurrency services, and military-focused communications.
"Manic sits at the intersection of Android banking malware and mobile spyware, combining financial-fraud
20 August 2026
Atalanta's Argo product is now being used to prove the resilience of Viasat’s satellite communications network.
The post AI-Assisted Tool Helped Secure Satellite Communication System After 2022 Russian Hacking appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
Security researchers at Cycode have disclosed a chain of flaws in AIT-GUI, the browser-based operator console for NASA/JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, that allow an unauthenticated attacker to issue arbitrary commands to the software's spacecraft and instrument command bus.
The chain, tracked as GHSA-p9r8-2q67-fp86 and rated 9.4 on the CVSS v3.1 scoring system, impacts AIT-GUI