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Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release

Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release

Ravie LakshmananAug 13, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS score:… 

Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor

Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor

Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Espionage The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a… 

737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One

737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One

Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Browser Security / Privacy A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users seeking access to blocked services with an aim to intercept… 

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API Flaw Let Weaker AI Models Decode Stronger Models’ Reasoning

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API Flaw Let Weaker AI Models Decode Stronger Models’ Reasoning

A newly disclosed flaw in the way OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google carried hidden AI reasoning between API calls let researchers recover internal reasoning and secrets from session logs, including API keys and passwords. The weakness… 

Adobe Patches Three CVSS 10.0 ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws

Adobe Patches Three CVSS 10.0 ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws

Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Adobe has shipped updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting ColdFusion, Commerce, and Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution and privilege… 

Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access

Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access

Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according to new findings from QUIRSO. The vulnerability in question is… 

Malicious LiteLLM Releases Tied to Trivy Hack May Have Exposed 2,100+ Organizations

Malicious LiteLLM Releases Tied to Trivy Hack May Have Exposed 2,100+ Organizations

Two malicious LiteLLM releases sat on PyPI for about 40 minutes in March carrying credential-stealing code capable of harvesting cloud keys, SSH keys, Kubernetes tokens, database passwords, and other secrets from systems that installed them.… 

SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code

SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code

Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Enterprise Security / Vulnerability SAP has released patches to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Commerce Cloud (Data Hub Adapter) that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE… 

ShieldBreak Zero-Day PoC Claims Microsoft Defender Patch Bypass With SYSTEM Access

ShieldBreak Zero-Day PoC Claims Microsoft Defender Patch Bypass With SYSTEM Access

Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Zero-Day / Vulnerability The security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a new Microsoft zero-day called ShieldBreak. The vulnerability,…