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Wednesday, August 5, 2026 · generated · about 5 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: Cyber Security News

    1-Click RCE Flaw in Cursor, VS Code, and Google Antigravity Exposes 50M Developers to Cyberattacks

    News Cyber Security News7h ago7 sources

    A critical one-click remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affects three of the world’s most widely used code editors: Cursor, Microsoft VS Code, and Google Antigravity . The flaw, uncovered by AISLE, exposes an estimated 50 million software developers at risk of silent, total system compromise with nothing more than a single click on a malicious link. The vulnerability has since been patched across all three platforms, but its discovery highlights how quickly security flaws can propagate across AI-native developer tooling. 1-Click RCE Vulnerability in Code Editors The exploit hinged on a…

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  2. Microsoft Defender Stops QNET Ransomware Attack in 128 Seconds With Automatic Device Isolation

    News Cyber Security News2h ago5 sources

    Ransomware can turn one careless click into a business-wide emergency. An incident at QNET shows how quickly that risk can grow when attackers use trusted Windows tools to launch a second stage of an intrusion. The attack began after a user opened a malicious file, likely delivered through email or a browser download. It launched mshta.exe, a legitimate Windows utility, which contacted attacker-controlled infrastructure to collect a remote payload and prepare persistent activity. Microsoft analysts noted that the operation used a living-off-the-land method, meaning it relied on a built-in…

    Also in Bleeping Computer Cyber Security News 404 Media +3

  3. CVE-2026-18577: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild

    Research Rapid7 Blog23h ago6 sources

    Overview On August 2, 2026, N-able published a security advisory for CVE-2026-18577 , an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting N-central that was discovered being exploited in-the-wild after an incomplete fix for an earlier authentication bypass issue, CVE-2026-18556 was disclosed. CVE-2026-18577 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative control of vulnerable N-central servers in affected deployments. N-able N-central is a widely deployed Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) platform used by managed service providers (MSPs) and…

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    CVE-2026-18577 ↗

  4. 7-Zip Mark-of-the-Web Bypass Lets Malicious Files Evade Windows SmartScreen

    News Cyber Security News1h ago4 sources

    Windows can protect users before a suspicious download runs. But a newly documented 7-Zip behavior can remove an important warning layer and allow a malicious program to start without a Windows SmartScreen prompt. ZIP archives are common in phishing campaigns. The gap grows when an archive looks like an invoice, update, or shared document. An attacker sends a link or attachment that leads to an archive, persuades the recipient to extract it with 7-Zip, then relies on the unmarked file being launched. This is not a newly disclosed exploit in 7-Zip code, but a security-control gap caused by the…

    Also in The Hacker News Bleeping Computer Microsoft Security

    CVE-2026-50341 ↗

  5. Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent

    News The Hacker News23h ago4 sources

    Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public agent could be prompt-injected into posting /adk-issue-fix as adk-bot. They identified the bot as a collaborator, so that comment satisfied

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  6. 8 Best Password Managers (2026), Tested and Reviewed

    Media Wired Security2 Aug3 sources

    Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.

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  7. Mallory Unifies Threat Intelligence, Exposure Context, and Response Into One Architecture for Security Teams

    News Cyber Security News17h ago4 sources

    Las Vegas, United States, August 4th, 2026, CyberNewswire As AI-assisted attackers compress exploitation timelines to hours, Mallory turns live adversary intelligence into prioritized, policy-governed action across the tools security teams already run Mallory , the AI-native Threat and Exposure Management platform, today introduced a unified context and intelligence layer for security teams. The architecture has three parts: a context graph that correlates attack surface, threat, and vulnerability data; an intelligent reasoning layer that determines what matters and why; and a policy and…

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  8. Apple launches new legal challenge against UK over iCloud access

    News The Record21h ago3 sources

    Seeking to protect users' iCloud accounts, Apple is reportedly mounting a new challenge to British legal demands for ways around the company's Advanced Data Protection feature.

    Also in Malwarebytes Labs The Hacker News

  9. CISA Flags Langflow RCE, Tomcat, and N-central Flaws as Actively Exploited

    News The Hacker News2h ago2 sources

    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on August 5, 2026, added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-9198 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A code injection vulnerability in Langflow that allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve full remote

    Also in SecurityWeek

  10. Fake Adobe and Zoom Updates Install ScreenConnect for Persistent Remote Access

    News The Hacker News21h ago2 sources

    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active, multi-wave campaign that employs social engineering lures themed around Adobe and Zoom software updates, business document reviews, and system maintenance utilities to stealthily deploy Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) programs like ConnectWise ScreenConnect. The campaign has been codenamed SMOKE#SCREEN by Securonix Threat

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Vulnerability watch what to look at, most urgent first

Details CVEProductSeverity CVSSEPSS KEVFixIn the news
Highest scoring today 10new CVEs, highest CVSS first
CVE-2026-16618 Improve SEOWordPress Critical 9.8 0.2% — — — EPSS 0.2%CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-14175 HUMANIST Digital Human ResourcesHashiCorp Critical 9.8 0.4% — — — EPSS 0.4%CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-15721 HUMANIST Digital Human ResourcesHashiCorp Critical 9.8 0.2% — — — EPSS 0.2%CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-61514 IP CameraPuwell Technology Inc. Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-61515 IP CameraPuwell Technology Inc. Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-69098 kotaemonCinnamon Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2025-29296 Unknown Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-63455 EdgeConnect SD-WAN OrchestratorHP Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-63456 EdgeConnect SD-WAN OrchestratorHP Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-24254 DynamoNVIDIA Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8

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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.