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August 22, 2026

SATURDAY DEBRIEF

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Hackers Using AI to Target Siemens PLCs in Critical US Sectors CareCloud Data Breach Impact Grows to 3.7 Million Individualss Cl0p Ransomware Group Names 40+ Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign CISA Urges Patching of Exploited MS, VMware, Apple Vulnerabilities 943 Patches Rolled Out With Oracle’s August 2026 Security Update Cisco Patches Critical Crosswork, Secure Workload Vulnerabilities Atlassian, Splunk Patch Dozens of Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities CISO Conversations: Nico Waisman – From Self-Taught Hacker to AI-Driven Offensive Security at XBOW

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Glow has appointed Patti Degnan as CISO Dali Rajic is joining OpenAI as Chief Revenue Officer Daniel Dubowski has been named SVP and CISO at Marriott International

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More Headlines from the Week

Webinar On-Demand: Rethinking Cyber Defense for AI-Speed Attacks Critical Isolated-vm Vulnerability Leads to RCE on Host On-Demand Event: CodeSecCon – Secure Your Code and Applications Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind Microsoft Patches Exploited Entra ID Vulnerability CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited TrueConf Vulnerabilities In Other News: Zombie Card Attack, T-Mobile Cut Cable to Stop Hackers, GitHub Denies AI Caused Bug OpenAI Overhauls Model Security With Sandboxing, 30-Minute Alerts, and Training Pauses Surveillance – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia Critical GitLab Flaw Exploited Shortly After Disclosure Exploitation Expected for Critical Authentication Bypass Patched in Citrix NetScaler MLflow Vulnerability Exploited for Cloud Credential Theft AI-Assisted Tool Helped Secure Satellite Communication System After 2022 Russian Hacking Hackers Target Zimbra Servers in Active Exploitation Campaign Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them Prevalent AI Raises $22 Million to Expand Data Fabric Platform 300K WordPress Sites Potentially Exposed to Hacking Due to Form Plugin Flaw AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model Fortinet Acquires AI Security Company Virtue AI Dozens of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh macOS, iOS Security Updates Heights Finance Data Breach Impacts at Least 1.2 Million Individuals GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability Xpander Raises $7.5M for AI Management and Governance Conflicting Test Goals Pushed Claude Agents to Deploy Self-Replicating Malware Fortune 500 Companies Hit in Azure Data Theft Campaign Irregular Details How a Naming Error Let AI Models Attack a Real Company Critical SAP Commerce Cloud Vulnerability Exploited 3 Days After Disclosure 680,000 Impacted by French Tax Authority Data Breach Recent macOS Screen Sharing Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks 40,000 Impacted by SafePal Data Breach

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