August 2026 Patch Tuesday: One Exploited Zero-Day and 62 Critical Vulnerabilities Among 415 CVEs

2026-08-14T07:23:27Z407c692929b1e2ba4c7ae9b1abb9671d81127097c2b36720b6369fa0823c57d1
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What happened

CrowdStrike’s August 2026 security blog feed highlights Microsoft Patch Tuesday coverage reporting 415 CVEs, including one exploited zero-day and 62 critical vulnerabilities, alongside threat-hunting research on VMware ESX shell-command obfuscation, Astaroth spambot activity, AI agent security, cloud security, and detection engineering.

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