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Sunday, August 2, 2026 · generated · about 6 min read

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Patch today vendors with the most new CVEs today

Ranked by CVE count. Each vendor opens the CVE Feed filtered to that vendor and these dates.

Top developments ranked by cross-source trending

  1. Image: The Hacker News

    DPRK-Linked macOS Malvertising Uses Fake Updates to Deliver Crypto-Stealing Malware

    News The Hacker News30 Jul3 sources

    Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to deliver malware as part of a new iteration of the long-running Contagious Interview campaign. The defining aspect of the attack is that bogus macOS software update screen stealthily

    Also in SANS Internet Storm Center Palo Alto Unit 42

  2. Cheap Android TV Boxes Pose as Phones and Turn Owners’ Broadband Into Proxies

    News The Hacker News31 Jul2 sources

    Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators. Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed it to Zhejiang Fengwo IoT Technology Co., Ltd., a mainland China company founded in 2019. The same apps have a second job. When a box

    Also in Wired Security

  3. Windows 11 Gets More Taskbar Control and AI Integration as Microsoft Details Quality Progress

    News Cyber Security News23h ago3 sources

    Microsoft has released a detailed update on its Windows quality initiative, four months after committing in March to improve performance, reliability, and everyday user experiences across Windows 11 . The company says early improvements are already reaching Windows Insiders and will begin rolling out more broadly to Windows 11 PCs this fall, while stressing that work is far from finished. In March, Microsoft outlined immediate priorities that included greater taskbar customization, more intentional AI integration, less disruptive Windows Updates, a faster and more dependable File Explorer…

    Also in The Hacker News Malwarebytes Labs Malwarebytes Labs

  4. Adobe Campaign Classic CVSS 10.0 Flaw Could Run Code Without User Interaction

    News The Hacker News1 Aug3 sources

    Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Campaign Classic (ACC), its enterprise-focused marketing automation platform, that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48449, carries a severity score of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as a case of incorrect authorization that could result in

    Also in SecurityWeek CCCS Alerts & Advisories

  5. Three Recent Chrome Releases Fix 1,442 Flaws, More Than Prior 23 Updates Combined

    News The Hacker News31 Jul4 sources

    Google on Thursday announced that it fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in Chrome versions 149 and 150, surpassing the total number of flaws the company fixed across the prior 23 milestones combined. Both versions were released last month. In its latest patch for Chrome 151, released Wednesday, the tech giant resolved 370 flaws, out of which 349 were reported by Google itself. Seven of the

    Also in SecurityWeek Bleeping Computer Wired Security +1

  6. Arch Linux Disables AUR Package Takeovers as Attackers Push Malicious Commits

    News Cyber Security News1 Aug3 sources

    Arch Linux has temporarily disabled package adoption on its Arch User Repository (AUR) after security teams detected a wave of malicious takeovers and follow-up commits designed to compromise unsuspecting users. The move, announced by Robin Candau (known online as Antiz) on behalf of the Arch Linux DevOps team, comes as attackers increasingly exploit an abandoned or unmaintained package as an entry point for supply-chain attacks. Last month, a massive supply chain attack targeting the Arch User Repository (AUR) compromised more than 400 community-maintained packages , with attackers injecting…

    Also in Bleeping Computer Infosecurity Magazine

  7. Top 10 Best DNS Security Solutions in 2026

    News Cyber Security News21h ago2 sources

    Nearly every attack touches DNS the phishing click, the malware callback, the exfiltration tunnel which makes the DNS layer the cheapest place to break kill chains. Cisco Umbrella is our top pick for 2026 on the strength of Talos-fed intelligence and proven scale, with Infoblox leading DDI-integrated security and Akamai delivering edge-scale protection. DNS security protects and exploits the DNS layer blocking resolution of malicious domains, detecting tunneling and DGA activity, and hardening DNS infrastructure. Below, the ten best DNS security solutions ranked. Quick Verdict • Best overall…

    Also in CCCS Alerts & Advisories

  8. Azure Cosmos DB Flaw Exposed Platform-Wide Key That Could Access Any Database

    News The Hacker News30 Jul3 sources

    A now-patched vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB could have let an attacker escape the service's Gremlin query sandbox and obtain full read and write access to databases across customer tenants, according to Wiz. Wiz, which codenamed the chain CosmosEscape, said the exploit chain began with a crafted query against a Gremlin database controlled by the attacker. From there, code execution on a

    Also in SecurityWeek Microsoft Security Microsoft Security +1

    CVE-2026-24304 ↗CVE-2026-66803 ↗

  9. Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

    News 404 Media31 Jul2 sources

    On Thursday, Google introduced a new AI feature into Google Earth which lets anyone fabricate all sorts of misleading or straight up inaccurate satellite imagery, from making it look like a specific place has suffered a drone strike to manifesting a nuclear plant in Iran. Usually, Google Earth is an exceptionally useful tool for open source intelligence (OSINT) analysts to digitally monitor areas of interest and see how they change over time, say, during a conflict or disaster. Now, Google Earth can easily be used as a tool for disinformation. 💡 Do you work at Google? I would love to hear…

    Also in CCCS Alerts & Advisories

  10. Anthropic says its AI hacked real-world companies in three incidents

    News The Record31 Jul2 sources

    Claude maker Anthropic said its AI models escaped test environments and breached networks at three companies on the open internet.

    Also in CyberScoop

Vulnerability watch what to look at, most urgent first

Details CVEProductSeverity CVSSEPSS KEVFixIn the news
Highest scoring today 10new CVEs, highest CVSS first
CVE-2026-67308 wazuhwazuh Critical 10.0 — — — — CVSS 10.0
CVE-2026-67330 scimbetter-auth Critical 9.9 — — — — CVSS 9.9
CVE-2026-15964 Single Sign On For TNGWordPress Critical 9.8 0.5% — — — EPSS 0.5%CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-66402 FreeRDPApple Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-67289 FreeRDPFreeRDP Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-67324 GitPythongitpython-developers Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-67340 arcadedbArcadeData Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-67341 arcadedbArcadeData Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-67342 arcadedbArcadeData Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-8457 WooCommerce - Social LoginApple Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8

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Worth reading quieter, still worth your time

  1. Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers

    Media Ars Technica Security30 Jul2 sources

    Russian state hackers are using a maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange Server to backdoor unpatched machines and steal credentials and other confidential information from them, security researchers said Thursday. The attacks are coming from TA488, a tracking name for a group working on behalf of the Kremlin, Proofpoint researchers said Thursday . Proofpoint and the National Security Agency jointly warned last week that the group, also tracked as Laundry Bear and Void Blizzard, had been carrying out similar attacks by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in an email…

    Also in Proofpoint Threat Insight

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Top developments come from the Security Feed's cross-source trending detection. Vulnerability watch comes from the CVE Feed's daily NVD and CISA KEV sync.