Researchers Confirm ExfilSquad’s Access to Sensitive Data Across 13 Organizations

2026-08-14T20:52:07Z047f7acef8ddb2e847c869241bd9f36be73223ccf1e6aba20c4607126d6772b5
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What happened

Infosecurity Magazine’s August 2026 feed reports widespread cyber activity, including ransomware and extortion operations, exploitation of newly disclosed vulnerabilities, malware and botnet campaigns, cloud credential compromise, software supply-chain attacks, AI-agent and LLM security issues, and attacks against critical infrastructure and public-sector organizations. The most urgent item is active exploitation of the critical VMware vCenter vulnerability CVE-2026-59310 shortly after disclosure; other notable threats include Fortinet flaw exploitation by Gunra ransomware actors, malicious AI

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