August 2026 Patch Tuesday: One Exploited Zero-Day and 62 Critical Vulnerabilities Among 415 CVEs
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CrowdStrike RSS feed covering August 2026 cybersecurity news, including Microsoft Patch Tuesday analysis with one exploited zero-day and 62 critical vulnerabilities among 415 CVEs, VMware ESX shell-command obfuscation threat hunting, AI security benchmarks, agent-harness escape prevention, threat hunting trends, malware research on Astaroth, and Falcon product updates.
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