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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity coverage from June–August 2026 highlights major vulnerability remediation activity, cybercrime prosecutions and takedowns, botnet and residential-proxy abuse, exposed government credentials, ad-tech tracking, and attacks affecting cloud data providers and public infrastructure. The collection includes Microsoft Patch Tuesday releases addressing hundreds of flaws, including actively exploited vulnerabilities, as well as reporting on Snowflake extortion campaigns, the Popa botnet, Scattered Spider, compromised streaming devices, and a CISA GitHub credential leak.
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