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ICYMI: June 2026 @AWS Security

Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our new, monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered identity and access management, threat intelligence, network security, AI-powered security tooling, and multi-account…

Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail

“Build a smart home”, they said. “It’ll make life so much better”, they said. Well, life wasn’t very bloody good at 23:00 the other night after travelling 33 hours from Paris only to find the IoT doorlock batteries dead and the 9V “jump start” procedure completely failing! Eventually, the locksmith arrived and opened an old-school…

White House details ‘Gold Eagle’ clearinghouse for AI cyber threats

The Trump administration unveiled its new federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and private sector, and said the project is already receiving threat intelligence on cybersecurity vulnerabilities and prioritizing patching. Created last month through a White House executive order, “Gold Eagle” will be managed by the Department of the Treasury,…

Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2026, the largest update ever. 621 CVEs in one month

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes a record 621 CVEs, including 2 exploited zero-days and critical flaws affecting SharePoint, RDP, Hyper-V, and AD FS. Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday is, by a significant margin, the largest single-month security release in the company’s history. The Zero Day Initiative counted 621 new Microsoft CVEs for the month, and the…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2026 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft has released its monthly security update for July 2026, which includes 622 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 57 that Microsoft marked as “critical”. Microsoft notes that two of the vulnerabilities disclosed this month have been exploited in the wild. CVE-2026-56155 is an important-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services…

Microsoft discloses ‘the mother of all’ vulnerability loads, tripling June’s previous record

Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security program reached an unrivaled pinnacle this month, as the vendor addressed 622 vulnerabilities across its suite of business products and systems.  “The bug apocalypse has finally descended upon us,” Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “The mother of all…

U.S. Treasury Sanctions VPN Provider and Cryptor Seller Behind Billions in Ransomware Losses

U.S. sanctions hit VPN provider 1VPNS and a cryptor seller for enabling ransomware gangs behind billions in losses to critical infrastructure. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two individuals and one entity on July 13 for supplying tools and infrastructure to ransomware groups that have caused billions of dollars in losses to…

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Nearly 60 of…

Security Hub adds AI workload protection and multicloud support for Microsoft Azure

Security Hub is our foundation for full-stack enterprise security across clouds. It centralizes your security operations and turns raw signals into prioritized insights, so your team spends its time managing real risk instead of stitching tools together. Today that foundation grows in two directions our customers asked for most. We are adding purpose-built protection for…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2026 – The AI Acopolypse is Here , (Tue, Jul 14th)

This patch Tuesday includes a staggering 622 vulnerabilities, not including another 427 vulnerabilities in Chromium, affecting Microsoft’s Edge browser. 62 of the vulnerabilities are rated critical. One was disclosed before today, and two have already been exploited. Given the large number of vulnerabilities, it is difficult to point out “noteworthy” issues.  Already exploited vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-56155 : Active Directory…

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Products Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects and motion graphics application used for creating cinematic movie titles, transitions, and complex animation sequences. Adobe Animate is a professional vector animation software used to design interactive animations…

RecordPoint Launches Global Partner Program

RecordPoint, a global data and AI governance platform, has announced the launch of its Global Partner Program. RecordPoint’s channel-first approach to AI data governance The program indicates a shift to a channel-first business model that enables partners to resell, co-sell, and refer RecordPoint’s technology to their customers. “Every regulated organization deploying AI right now is…

SonicWall SMA appliances targeted in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-15409, CVE-2026-15410)

SonicWall has fixed two actively exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-15409, CVE-2026-15410) affecting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Series appliances, and is urging customer organizations to upgrade to a fixed firmare version and search for evidence of potential compromise. If the outlined indicators of compromise are present on the system, the company advises re-imaging (hardware) or re-deploying…

LabubaRAT Masquerades as NVIDIA Software to Control Windows Hosts

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Rust-based remote access trojan (RAT) codenamed LabubaRAT that masquerades as NVIDIA software to blend into target environments. “LabubaRAT creates a reusable foothold for hands-on activity,” Blackpoint Cyber researchers Sam Decker and Nevan Beal said in an analysis published today. “Once deployed, it can profile the host,

Cribl Set to Acquire CardinalOps

Cribl, an AI platform for telemetry, has recently acquired CardinalOps, an Agentic Detection Engineering solution. Expanding its Cribl AI platform into SecOps The acquisition extends Cribl’s platform into security operations to add detection engineering capabilities. This extension will help customers improve threat coverage, lower data costs, and enhance SIEM, data lake, and XDR environments, creating…

Treasury sanctions First VPN Service, others for abetting ransomware gangs

The Treasury Department is slapping sanctions on First VPN and its administrator for allegedly selling services to ransomware operators, as well as another person aiding ransomware gangs. First VPN Services, or 1VPNS, was “deeply embedded in the cybercriminal ecosystem” and appeared in virtually every Europol investigation in recent years, the law enforcement body said after…

Authenticate legitimate AI agent traffic with AWS WAF Bot Control

As AI agents and automated tools increasingly access web applications, distinguishing legitimate bot traffic from malicious attempts has become a critical security challenge. Traditional approaches such as IP-based filtering and reverse DNS lookups fail in multi-tenant systems (such as Amazon Bedrock AgentCore) where thousands of distinct workloads share the same IP space. Attackers can easily…

Q2 2026 Cyber Attacks Statistics

Q2 2026 brought 578 recorded cyber incidents worldwide, with financially-motivated cyber crime accounting for over 71% of the total. Malware remained the attacker’s weapon of choice, exploiting public-facing applications as the leading entry point. Information & Communication stood out as the hardest-hit sector.

RabbitMQ Flaws Could Leak OAuth Secrets and Expose Cross-Tenant Queue Metadata

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two access control-related flaws impacting the RabbitMQ message broker service that could allow attackers to leak OAuth client secrets, expose enterprise messaging infrastructure to takeover risks, and bypass tenant boundaries. Miggo’s security team, which discovered and reported the flaws, said one “leaks the broker’s confidential OAuth

New macOS malware steals passwords by posing as Apple’s crash-reporting tool

Jamf Threat Labs has uncovered a new macOS infostealer named CrashStealer that disguises itself as Apple’s crash-reporting tool to steal passwords, Keychain data, and cryptocurrency wallets. The malware was first spotted in May while it was still under development. By early July, Jamf was seeing in-the-wild detections, indicating it had moved into active use. “Unlike…

Download: The ultimate guide to network operations management

Modern network operations are too manual. Today’s IT and security teams are managing growing complexity across networks, infrastructure, tools, and workflows. The result? Slower response, duplicated effort, and operational friction. This guide explores how intelligent workflows help teams reduce manual work, improve visibility, and move faster across network operations. What you’ll learn: Why traditional approaches…

Polygraf AI Meeting Guard Detects Deepfakes in Video Calls

AI security company Polygraf AI has launched Meeting Guard, a real-time fraud-detection tool that joins virtual meetings as a visible participant and monitors for deepfake voices, AI-generated responses, identity impersonation, and sensitive-data exposure.  The platform is designed for enterprise and government users across Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. Meeting Guard targets deepfakes and identity…