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August 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup

By Editorial Team | September 9, 2026

This August 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup lands in a month when several of the biggest breaches traced back to familiar weaknesses: a compromised employee credential, an overlooked customer-facing plugin, and infrastructure monitoring that watched the wrong signals. Here’s a look at the month’s key cyberattacks and CVEs, along with our take on what they mean for…

Metabase CVSS 10 SQL Injection Zero-Day Hits Admin Access

By Editorial Team | August 11, 2026

The Metabase CVSS 10 SQL injection zero-day gives attackers admin access and every connected database credential. Framework and Tally already hit.

The Metabase CVSS 10 SQL injection zero-day lets an unauthenticated attacker turn a self-hosted analytics dashboard into a master key for every database it touches. Active exploitation began August 3, 2026, and two named victims — Framework and Tally — have already confirmed customer data theft. If your organization runs Metabase for internal reporting, this…

July 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup: A Rogue AI Agent, Ransomware Disruption, and Critical CVEs

By Editorial Team | August 5, 2026

This July 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup lands in a month when the peak of northern-hemisphere summer brought no letup in cyber incidents — if anything, July produced some of the year’s most unusual attacks so far. Here’s a roundup of the month’s key incidents and newly disclosed vulnerabilities, along with our take on what they mean.…

EY Third-Party Data Breach: 15 Days Inside Helpdesk

By Editorial Team | July 22, 2026

EY third-party data breach: attackers spent 15 days inside a support-ticketing platform used by Ernst & Young’s tax practice, walking out with client tax filings, Social Security numbers and financial account data before anyone noticed — the firm’s third vendor-side security failure in under three years. What Happened This EY third-party data breach ran from…