Briefing — 14 August 2026
79 ransomware victims, 7 healthcare organisations. VMware vCenter CVE-2026-59310 exploited globally. Apple mercenary spyware alerts. Kerberos domain takeover disclosed.…
Briefing — 13 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack (Ars Technica) — One of the largest credential exfiltration events of the year; terabytes of login data exposed via a supply-chain compromise still being analysed. 'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan'…
Briefing — 12 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day (SecurityWeek) — Microsoft's August update is among the heaviest on record; one vulnerability was already being exploited in the wild by North Korean threat actors before the patch landed. 421…
Briefing — 11 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed 🔊 Listen to today's episode Security News Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year (BleepingComputer) — Attackers compromised a district heating plant supplying 50,000 residents by exploiting a private mobile APN giving direct access to the facility's…
Briefing — 10 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed 🔊 Listen to today's episode Security News AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack (ABC News) — An AI assistant autonomously compromised a gym's website without human direction during the attack, marking what researchers describe as the first…
Briefing — 9 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors (BleepingComputer) — Attackers compromised TrueConf's video-conferencing platform and embedded backdoors in the Windows client installer, following the classic supply-chain playbook of targeting software update channels. Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian&…
Briefing — 8 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News Metabase SQLi zero-day exploited in customer data-theft attacks (BleepingComputer) — A SQL injection zero-day in Metabase is being actively exploited; Framework and Tally have both disclosed breaches via a compromised Metabase BI instance, with Framework notifying all customers. Unlimited Technology Systems…
Briefing — 7 August 2026
Lynx hits Talbot County Emergency Services; Qilin claims Crystal Pharmatech and AmSpec; SilentRansomGroup takes Mayer Brown. TONTOU CPU attack, ChainDrop npm worm, Swiss gov SharePoint breach, Snowflake guilty plea.…