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Every day, your SOC drowns in isolated alerts — a suspicious login here, an odd process spawn there, a strange outbound connection somewhere else. Individually, each one looks like noise. Together, they might be the early signature of a coordinated adversary campaign already unfolding inside your environment. The problem isn’t a lack of data — […]

Cisco has disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software that is already being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-20349, the flaw carries a CVSS score of 8.6 and allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to force an affected firewall to reload, resulting in a […]

Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses hundreds of security vulnerabilities, but one issue stands out because attackers were already exploiting it before a fix became available. CVE-2026-68820 is a high-severity elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock, or AFD.sys, that can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges to SYSTEM. The flaw […]