CVE-2026-69836

Top 5 Cybersecurity News Stories August 28, 2026

By Editorial Team | August 28, 2026

Cybersecurity News Stories August 28, 2026 image showing five exploited trust layers in one week across identity, OT, developer infrastructure, communications, and endpoint security`

This week’s Cybersecurity News Stories August 28, 2026 arrives with a pattern that cuts across every story: the infrastructure that organisations designate as trusted — the identity service that decides who gets access, the security tool that watches for threats, the developer pipeline that builds and deploys code, the video conferencing platform that carries internal…

Microsoft Entra ID RCE Vulnerability Exploited

By Editorial Team | August 24, 2026

A maximum-severity Microsoft Entra ID RCE vulnerability was already being exploited before Microsoft's August 20 disclosure, and no customer patch exists.

Microsoft disclosed a maximum-severity Microsoft Entra ID RCE vulnerability on August 20, 2026, and confirmed the flaw was already being exploited in the wild before the advisory went public. CVE-2026-69836 carries a CVSS score of 10.0, needs no authentication and no user interaction, and sits in the identity backbone underneath Microsoft 365, Azure AD sign-in,…