August 2026 Patch Tuesday: One Exploited Zero-Day and 62 Critical Vulnerabilities Among 415 CVEs
2026-08-13T19:23:26Z•b0abc8a88fc2dc7208e4febd808b2d39498f350eca8d11610f3a412e2573480c
AI securityAstarothCVEMicrosoft Patch TuesdayVMware ESXcloud securitycritical vulnerabilitiesexploited vulnerabilityshell command obfuscationspambotthreat huntingzero-day
What happened
CrowdStrike’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday analysis reports 415 CVEs, including 62 rated critical and one exploited zero-day. Related posts cover VMware ESX shell-command obfuscation hunting, Astaroth malware activity, threat-hunting trends, and security controls for AI agents and cloud environments.
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- 2026-08-13T19:23:26Z
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