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Microsoft Teams Vishing Ransomware Hits in 17 Hours
A Microsoft Teams vishing ransomware campaign has hit dozens of North American organizations since February 2026, using two-minute fake IT-helpdesk phone calls to gain a foothold that, in the fastest confirmed case, ended in full Chaos ransomware encryption within 17 hours of first contact. What Happened Security vendor Sophos tracked the campaign to a financially…
Read MoreCisco Secure FMC CVE-2026-20316 Exploited
Cisco Secure FMC CVE-2026-20316 is under confirmed active exploitation: a hardcoded, low-privilege account built into every on-premises Secure Firewall Management Center gives an unauthenticated attacker a foothold — and in the same advisory cycle, Cisco quietly reactivated a five-month-old, maximum-severity root-level bypass in the same product, sharing an identical indicator of compromise. CISA added the…
Read MoreCertighost CVE-2026-54121 Active Directory Domain Takeover
Certighost CVE-2026-54121 Active Directory is a certificate-services flaw that turns any ordinary domain-user account into full control of your entire Windows domain — no admin rights, no malware, no phishing required. Microsoft patched it on July 14, 2026, but a full technical writeup and working proof-of-concept went public on July 24. If your Active Directory…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News Stories July 31, 2026
The five stories in this week’s Cybersecurity News Stories July 31, 2026 each describe a different failure at the same architectural level: not the application layer, not the endpoint estate, not even the network perimeter as conventionally modelled — but the foundational infrastructure that the perimeter, the applications, and the endpoints depend on in order…
Read MoreArista VeloCloud Orchestrator CVE-2026-16812 Exploited
Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator CVE-2026-16812 is a maximum-severity, unauthenticated command injection flaw under active exploitation right now, and it hands an attacker control of an entire SD-WAN fabric from a single unpatched management console. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 27, with a federal patch deadline of July 30. If your…
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