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 highlights multiple July 2026 security updates and active threats: Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes a very large set of flaws (reportedly ~622 vulnerabilities, 62 rated critical) with an additional ~427 Chromium/Edge issues; one vulnerability was disclosed prior to the update and two vulnerabilities are already being actively exploited. Wireshark 4.6.7 was released addressing 12 vulnerabilities and various bugs. DShield SIEM received an update (now using ELK 8.19.15) with new dashboards and logs. Separately, actors are scanning for MCP servers and AI assistant credentials (indicive
Why it matters
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- sans_isc_diary
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- f70eb710791a7fe8c94429cd9b346ff67d4272c09a882e410e55bd9367f4e5ce
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- 2026-07-16T13:23:49Z
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- Yes
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