Cyber Brief · Aug 18 · 12 stories
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· The Hacker News · Aug 18
Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology (OT) and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts.
According to in…
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· CISA · Aug 18
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Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition or execute arbitrary code.
The following versions of CISA Malcolm are affected:
Malcolm <26.06.1 (CVE-2026-55676)
Malcolm <26.07.0 (CVE-2026-63133, CVE-2026-63134…
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· CISA · Aug 18
CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
CVE-2026-33824 Microsoft Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Service Extensions Double Free Vulnerability
CVE-2026-55040 Microsoft SharePoint Weak Authentication V…
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· BleepingComputer · Aug 18
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a high-severity Windows Task Host vulnerability that was flagged as actively exploited in April. [...]
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· BleepingComputer · Aug 18
A custom Java web shell likely linked to the Clop ransomware gang was designed specifically for PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers, with built-in features to decrypt credentials, enumerate file repositories, and steal files. [...]
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· The Hacker News · Aug 18
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artifi…
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· CSO Online · Aug 18
GitLab has fixed a critical vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform unauthorized modifications inside code repositories or to completely delete them with a single HTTP request. The patched releases also address a second high-risk cross-site request forgery (CSRF) flaw.
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· CSO Online · Aug 18
In recent months, LLMs have gone from flooding open-source projects and bug bounty programs with questionable security reports that wasted developers’ time, to routinely finding zero-day flaws that humans and traditional security audit tools had missed for years — a rapid evolution in cyber capabil…
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· Help Net Security · Aug 18
GitLab has released patches for two vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity code injection flaw that can be exploited without authentication. The vulnerabilities affect GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) versions from 18.2 before 18.11.11, 19.0 before 19.0.8, 19.1 befo…
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· SecurityWeek · Aug 18
Rapid7 warns that traditional patch cycles cannot keep pace with soaring vulnerability disclosures and faster exploitation, forcing defenders to prioritize exposure over severity scores.
The post AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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· SecurityWeek · Aug 18
The security defect allows unauthenticated attackers to modify or delete user data and public projects.
The post GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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· The Record · Aug 18
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI updated an advisory on the group initially released in March 2025 — writing that as of April 2026, Medusa actors have hit more than 500 victims. CISA previously said 300 victims, many of which are in critical infrastructure sectors…