This month in security with Tony Anscombe – August 2026 edition
2026-09-01T08:51:32Z•975a7b6e9c8833c34947e558a61d40b48ed0567d2cb79cb4629b40a4514f51e7
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What happened
ESET WeLiveSecurity feed covering cybersecurity news and research from April through August 2026. Topics include AI-enabled cybercrime and vulnerability discovery, phishing and fraud, ransomware, critical-infrastructure and OT security, APT activity, Android and Windows malware, supply-chain attacks, Secure Boot bypasses, and major law-enforcement disruption operations. The most directly actionable technical item concerns 11 Microsoft-signed UEFI shim bootloaders vulnerable to Secure Boot bypass; other entries describe active threats including Gamaredon, OceanLotus, ScarCruft, Webworm, FishMอง
Why it matters
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- eset_welivesecurity
- Record identifier
- 975a7b6e9c8833c34947e558a61d40b48ed0567d2cb79cb4629b40a4514f51e7
- Enrichment time
- 2026-09-01T08:51:32Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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