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Berlin Ransomware Attack: State Refuses to Pay
A Berlin ransomware attack has put Germany’s capital in the position every public-sector CISO dreads: a confirmed data breach, a seven-figure ransom demand, and an election three weeks away. The ransomware group Rhysida claims it stole 5.79 terabytes from Berlin’s state administrative network and is demanding 30 Bitcoin, roughly €2.05 million, with a seven-day auction…
Read MoreminiOrange SAML SSO Bypass Vulnerability
A miniOrange SAML SSO bypass is under active exploitation against WordPress sites, and most vulnerability scanners cannot detect whether a given site is actually affected. Two chained authentication bugs, CVE-2026-61979 and CVE-2026-15981 (CVSS 9.8 each), let an unauthenticated attacker forge a SAML login and access wp-admin as any existing user, including administrators. DigitalOcean confirmed exploitation…
Read MoreGitLab GraphQL code injection vulnerability
A GitLab GraphQL code injection vulnerability is now under active exploitation, reproduced and attacked within minutes of GitLab’s August 17, 2026 disclosure of CVE-2026-19478. The unauthenticated flaw (CVSS 9.4) lets an attacker delete public projects, forge fake fix records, or lock out maintainers on any unpatched self-managed GitLab instance. GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated were already…
Read MoreZimbra Command Injection Vulnerability Actively Exploited
A Zimbra command injection vulnerability is under confirmed active exploitation against on-premises mail servers, and CISA’s federal remediation deadline of August 24 has already passed. Tracked as CVE-2026-73570, the flaw lets an unauthenticated attacker execute arbitrary shell commands on any unpatched Zimbra Collaboration Suite instance with SNMP notifications enabled — a configuration many administrators never…
Read MoreWindows Defender Zero-Day Vulnerability Has No Patch
A Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability disclosed on August 12, 2026 lets a low-privileged local attacker bypass Microsoft’s own patch for an earlier Defender flaw and escalate straight to SYSTEM. Tracked as CVE-2026-69414 and nicknamed ShieldBreak, the flaw still has no fix ten days after Microsoft assigned the CVE. Any Windows endpoint running default Defender is…
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