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Adobe's out-of-band fix for CVE-2026-75650 landed September 7, after attackers had already backdoored live stores. There is no single hotfix: seven version-keyed patch files, a vendor admission that you cannot easily tell whether it applied, and a fifteen-step credential rotation behind it.
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CERT Polska found attackers chaining two MikroTik RouterOS flaws to take full administrative control of routers with SSH exposed to the internet, no password required. MikroTik shipped fixes, but SANS warns a patched device may already be owned: assume compromise and hunt.
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The macOS Screen Sharing flaw now carries a CVE, CVE-2026-65400, and NCSC-NL warns it is under active exploitation. Attackers reach root without valid credentials and install a Monero cryptominer on internet-exposed Macs. Apple's fix shipped August 6; patch and close port 5900.
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Wireshark 4.6.8 lands with fixes for 28 vulnerabilities and 25 bugs. Every one of the 28 is a dissector or file-parser crash, not remote code execution, but because analysts open untrusted captures on their own machines, patching and sandboxing both matter.
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Rapid7 shipped 13 new Metasploit modules on August 14, led by the Fragnesia Linux kernel LPE (CVE-2026-46300) plus unauthenticated RCE modules for Langflow, WordPress core, Joomla JCE, and SonicWall SMA1000. Treat every named product as a patch-priority check.
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A pre-authentication flaw in macOS Screen Sharing, CVE-2026-65400, lets a network attacker log into any Mac without a password. Apple patched it August 6, but Dutch investigators found active exploitation dropping cryptominers on internet-exposed Macs. Patch and close port 5900 now.
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Two flaws tied to recent patch cycles are under active attack at once. VMware vCenter CVE-2026-59310 fell five days after Broadcom's disclosure, and SharePoint CVE-2026-55040 after a public proof-of-concept. Neither is in CISA's KEV catalog yet — patch internet-facing systems first.
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Fortinet patched high-severity authentication flaws in FortiWeb and FortiManager. One lets a remote attacker log in with random usernames and passwords; the other lets an attacker impersonate any FortiGate managed by FortiManager. No active exploitation is reported — patch now.
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Adobe's mid-August release patches three CVSS 10.0 flaws — one in ColdFusion (CVE-2026-48362, an OS command injection) and two in Campaign Classic — alongside a critical Commerce fix. No exploitation is known yet, but Adobe rates the updates Priority 1 and advises patching within 72 hours.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
Check Point pins the exploited afd.sys zero-day, CVE-2026-68820, on North Korea's Lazarus Group. In this wave of Operation Dream Job, the attackers used a post-quantum handshake to shield exploit delivery before dropping the ForestTiger backdoor. CISA set an August 25 patch deadline.
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Zoom has patched ZOOMSDAY, a zero-click flaw in its annotation tool that let any meeting participant run code on another attendee's device — presenter to viewer and back. Researchers built a working exploit with a public AI tool in fewer than 20 prompts.
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Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday is one of the largest on record: 421 CVEs by Rapid7's count, 62 rated critical, and a use-after-free in the afd.sys kernel driver that North Korea's Lazarus group used as a zero-day to reach SYSTEM. Patch that one first.