20 Jul, 2026

CISA gives feds four days to patch Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their networks against a high-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that has been exploited in zero-day attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-6973, this security flaw allows attackers with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary code remotely on systems running […]

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Ivanti warns of new EPMM flaw exploited in zero-day attacks

Ivanti warned customers today to patch a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability in Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) exploited in zero-day attacks. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-6973) stems from an Improper Input Validation weakness that allows remote attackers with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary code on targeted systems running EPMM 12.8.0.0 and earlier. Ivanti says […]

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Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall RCE zero-day exploited in attacks

Palo Alto Networks warned customers today that a critical-severity unpatched vulnerability in the PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal is being exploited in attacks. Also known as the Captive Portal, the User-ID Authentication Portal is a PAN-OS security feature that authenticates users whose identities cannot be automatically mapped by the firewall. Tracked as CVE-2026-0300, this zero-day bug stems from […]

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FBI links cybercriminals to sharp surge in cargo theft attacks

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned the transportation and logistics industry of a sharp rise in cyber-enabled cargo theft, with estimated losses in the United States and Canada reaching nearly $725 million in 2025. This represents a 60% surge in losses compared to the previous year, fueled by criminals increasingly using hacking and […]

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Microsoft: New Remote Desktop warnings may display incorrectly

Microsoft has confirmed a new issue causing newly introduced Windows security warnings to display incorrectly when opening Remote Desktop (.rdp) files. This known issue impacts all supported Windows versions, including Windows 11 (KB5083768 & KB5083769), Windows 10 (KB5082200), and Windows Server (KB5082063). As Microsoft explains in updates to the original advisories, “the security warning that appears […]

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FTC: Americans lost over $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned of a massive increase in losses from social media scams since 2020, exceeding $2.1 billion in 2025. According to reports to the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network, all age groups (except those 80 and over, who were mainly targeted via phone calls) lost more money to scams originating on […]

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CISA flags Apache ActiveMQ flaw as actively exploited in attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned on Thursday that a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability patched earlier this month is now actively exploited in attacks. Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular open-source Java-based message broker for asynchronous communication between applications. Tracked as CVE-2026-34197, the security flaw has gone undetected for 13 years and was discovered by Horizon3 […]

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Nearly 4,000 US industrial devices exposed to Iranian cyberattacks

The attack surface targeted by Iranian-linked hackers in cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure networks includes thousands of Internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Rockwell Automation. According to a joint advisory issued by multiple U.S. federal agencies on Tuesday, Iranian state-backed hacking groups have been targeting Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley PLC devices since March 2026, causing operational disruptions and […]

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CISA orders feds to patch exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw by Sunday

CISA has given U.S. government agencies four days to secure their systems against a critical-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that has been exploited in attacks since January. Tracked as CVE-2026-1340, this critical-severity code injection flaw enables threat actors without privileges to gain remote code execution on Internet-exposed and unpatched EPMM appliances. Ivanti flagged this and a second security […]

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US warns of Iranian hackers targeting critical infrastructure

Iranian-linked hackers are targeting Internet-exposed Rockwell/Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLCs) on the networks of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations. The warning came earlier today in the form of a joint advisory authored by the FBI, CISA, NSA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE), and the United States Cyber Command – Cyber National Mission […]

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