ISC Stormcast For Thursday, July 16th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10010, (Thu, Jul 16th)

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What happened

SANS ISC diary entries for mid-July 2026: Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a massive set of issues (622 Microsoft vulnerabilities plus ~427 Chromium vulnerabilities impacting Edge), 62 rated critical and at least two already exploited; one vulnerability was previously disclosed. Wireshark 4.6.7 released fixing 12 vulnerabilities and 16 bugs. DShield SIEM received an update (now on ELK 8.19.15) with new dashboards and logs. Reports of Internet scanning targeting MCP servers and AI-assistant credentials and a phishing-evasion technique using "comment stuffing" in HTML attachments werealso

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2026-07-17T01:23:44Z
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