A South Carolina loan company disclosed a data breach that exposed the financial information and Social Security numbers of nearly 750,000 people. According to reporting, the breach affects anyone who received a loan through the company or who inquired about a loan product through a third party, meaning the exposure reaches beyond direct customers. Social Security numbers combined with financial details are among the most useful data for identity theft and fraud, and such records frequently end up for sale on criminal marketplaces. Lending and debt-related companies remain a favored target because they concentrate exactly this kind of sensitive financial and identity data.
Attackers began exploiting a critical SAP Commerce Cloud flaw within days of its patch, even though no public proof-of-concept exists. Tracked as CVE-2026-58231 and scored 10.0, the improper-authorization bug in the Data Hub Adapter lets an unauthenticated attacker abuse a default authentication client and send crafted input to reach arbitrary code execution. Threat intelligence firm Defused saw the first exploitation attempts hit its honeypots three days after SAP's August patch, classified as automated mass scanning of internet-facing deployments. Shadowserver tracks more than 4,200 exposed SAP Commerce Cloud systems, mostly in Europe and North America. Prior critical SAP flaws have been used by state actors and ransomware crews.
The Netherlands cyber agency warned that attackers are exploiting a recently patched macOS flaw to gain root on internet-exposed Macs and install cryptocurrency miners. Tracked as CVE-2026-65400 and scored 9.8, the authentication flaw in the Screen Sharing component lets a network attacker authenticate to the built-in remote desktop service, which uses VNC on port 5900, without valid credentials due to flawed state management. Apple fixed it in emergency updates on August 6 for macOS Tahoe, Sequoia, and Sonoma. Screen Sharing is off by default, but any Mac with it enabled and reachable from the internet is at high risk, and several have already been compromised to run Monero miners.
A newly disclosed zero-day in GeoServer, the widely used open-source geospatial server, is already drawing exploitation attempts, according to watchTowr. The flaw is a SQL injection issue that can lead to remote code execution, and it remains unpatched, with no CVE assigned yet. It was first disclosed publicly by a researcher on August 12, and attackers commonly begin probing internet-facing servers as soon as such details appear. GeoServer instances are frequently exposed to the internet to serve mapping and location data, which makes an unpatched code-execution flaw in the platform an attractive and reachable target. Defenders should treat exposed instances as at risk until a fix ships.
Cryptocurrency wallet maker SafePal disclosed that an authorization flaw in a third-party order-tracking plug-in exposed personal data of about 39,798 customers, and a threat actor is now selling it. The flaw worked like a parcel tracker that lets one customer see another's order simply by changing the order number, exposing names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details for orders placed between March 2025 and April 2026. Seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords, and payment data were not affected. SafePal warned customers to expect phishing and impersonation, and noted that a fake firmware-update lure had already been seen. It has taken down more than 30 fraudulent sites.
A new Mirai-based modular Linux botnet called Evooo1Bot is compromising internet-facing gateway devices and turning them into traffic relay nodes. Once installed, it runs a SOCKS5 proxy on the infected device, letting the operators route their own traffic through the victim's connection to hide the true origin of other activity. Building on the widely reused Mirai code base and a modular design, it targets the kind of routers and gateways that sit exposed at the network edge, often running outdated firmware and weak credentials. Relay botnets like this quietly monetize compromised devices and complicate attribution for whatever traffic passes through them.
Jamf detailed a new macOS information stealer, AmnesiaStealer, spread through ClickFix lures that trick users into running a command from a fake download page. Beyond harvesting the login password, keychain, browser data, and cryptocurrency wallets, it includes a module that clones the victim's Chromium browser profile, including its logged-in state, into a hidden browser on the infected Mac and gives the attacker live remote control of it through the browser's debugging protocol. Because the session runs on the victim's own device with their real identifiers, this lets the attacker use authenticated accounts while sidestepping multi-factor authentication. Jamf calls it the first macOS malware to combine profile cloning with live remote browser control.
A critical VMware vCenter flaw that Broadcom patched in late July is now under active exploitation in a global campaign. Tracked as CVE-2026-59310 and scored 9.8, it is a directory-traversal bug in the vCenter Syslog server that lets an unauthenticated attacker with network access run code, turning a logging service into a route onto the host. Incident responders at QUIRSO found a single actor exploiting it from around August 3, using path traversal to drop a cron job that launches the open-source reverse_ssh tool for persistent remote access. More than 360 compromised systems across 47 countries have been identified, and patching alone will not remove an existing foothold.
Adobe patched a critical flaw in its Commerce and Magento e-commerce platforms that lets an unauthenticated attacker hijack customer accounts, and security firm Sansec reports its web application firewall is already blocking exploitation attempts. Tracked as CVE-2026-71362 and scored 9.1, the incorrect-authorization bug stems from the platform failing to bind a customer identity to an account session, so an attacker with only network access to the public storefront can switch an active session to another customer and read their private data. It needs no account, administrator rights, or user interaction. Adobe ships the fix as isolated patch files, so administrators must be on the latest point release first.
Adobe released Priority 1 updates for ColdFusion and Campaign Classic, led by a critical operating-system command injection flaw in ColdFusion scored 10.0 that could give an attacker arbitrary code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-48362, it is accompanied by an eval-injection flaw scored 9.9 and an authorization flaw that can cause a denial of service. ColdFusion application servers are a long-standing target for attackers because they are widely internet-exposed and often run with broad access. Adobe is not aware of exploitation yet but urges installation within 72 hours given the priority rating. The Campaign Classic updates apply only to on-premises and hybrid on-premises deployments.
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