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Industry news, vulnerability disclosures, compliance updates, and threat intelligence—handpicked for relevance to your environment.

Each item includes our perspective on why it matters to your security posture.

Cybersecurity News Digest — July 19, 2026

CISA's Sunday deadline hits for two exploited FortiSandbox flaws, Checkmarx exposes a blockchain-C2 npm supply chain attack on Vite developers, a new Spirals ransomware strain encrypts a network in 24 hours, and Abbott fights a dual extortion claim.

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Cybersecurity News Digest — July 18, 2026

CISA fast-tracks a critical SharePoint deserialization bug into KEV, WordPress force-patches a pre-auth RCE chain dubbed wp2shell, North Korean hackers hide malware in SVG images, and 23andMe pays $18M over its 2023 breach.

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Cybersecurity News Digest — July 17, 2026

SAP patches a max-impact CVSS 9.9 NetWeaver flaw, a 16-year-old Linux KVM bug lets guest VMs escape to the host, an unpatched Windows flaw mounts admin hives, Kaspersky exposes a patient SE Asia espionage campaign, and Scattered Spider's TfL hackers get 5.5 years.

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Cybersecurity News Digest — July 16, 2026

A ShareFile zero-day forces customers to pull servers offline, 292 fake GitHub repos spread a Chrome-encryption-bypassing infostealer, a ransomware crew's Bosch 'proof' turns out to be a public manual, and an unpatched Claude for Chrome flaw lets rogue extensions read your Gmail.

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Cybersecurity News Digest — July 15, 2026

Microsoft's record-breaking Patch Tuesday closes two zero-days already under attack, a 15-year-old Linux kernel bug hands out root, SonicWall SMA appliances get chained in the wild, and Japan's largest taxi operator goes dark.

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Cybersecurity News Digest — July 14, 2026

A joint advisory on Russian FSB router hacking, a compromised npm package dropping a Rust infostealer, Progress Software's emergency ShareFile shutdown, and CISA confirming ransomware gangs are exploiting a Microsoft Defender flaw.

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Cybersecurity News Digest — July 13, 2026

This week's cybersecurity roundup: Russian hackers hijacking doorbell cameras to track NATO weapons shipments, a Linux kernel root flaw hitting Android, a new Entra passkey vishing campaign, and prompt injection hidden in images to fool AI code reviewers.

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Operation First Light 2026: 5,811 Arrests and $293M Seized in Global Fraud Crackdown

Threat Intelligence Regulations Identity & Access

An INTERPOL-coordinated operation across 97 countries closed over 23,000 fraud cases, froze 31,014 bank accounts, and identified 142,000+ victims of social engineering scams.

Why it matters: Scale like this tells you social engineering isn't a fringe risk — it's an industrialized criminal supply chain with the same maturity as any other cybercrime market. If your security awareness training still frames phishing and BEC as isolated incidents rather than organized fraud, this is a good prompt to update it.
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