August 2026 Patch Tuesday: One Exploited Zero-Day and 62 Critical Vulnerabilities Among 415 CVEs
2026-08-17T19:23:28Z•f115b1416c242ab18e1a7acdd784d11b39c5dd9ae8dd495507566191ae4b92f5
AI securityAstarothCVECrowdStrikeFalconPatch TuesdaySIEMVMware ESXagent escapecloud securitycritical vulnerabilitiesexploited zero-dayshell command obfuscationspambotthreat hunting
What happened
CrowdStrike’s August 2026 security blog feed covers Microsoft Patch Tuesday analysis reporting 415 CVEs, including one exploited zero-day and 62 critical vulnerabilities; threat hunting for shell command obfuscation on VMware ESX; AI-security benchmarking and agent-harness escape prevention; threat-hunting findings on accelerating AI use; Astaroth spambot activity; and updates to CrowdStrike Falcon cloud, SIEM, and AI-agent protections.
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- 2026-08-17T19:23:28Z
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