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CYBER SECURITY • AUGUST 2026

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2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

CISA, the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners released joint guidance, 2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), that updates and replaces the minimum elements for an SBOM published by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in 2021. The new guidance incorporates stakeholder feedback from a 2025 public comment period and reflects current SBOM tools and needs while preserving the core principles of the original NTIA document. An SBOM serves as an “ingredients list” for software and is a key building block of software security and supply chain risk management. Organizations can use SBOM data to better understand the makeup of their software components and supply chains and make more risk-informed decisions. Minimum elements for an SBOM describe the baseline technologies and practices that an SBOM should include

29 July , 2026
All CISA Advisories

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-20316 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk establishes vulnerability management requirements for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. BOD 26-04 reinforces the importance of the KEV Catalog and requires federal agencies to prioritize rapid remediation of high-risk vulnerabilities, specifically those identified by Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) listed in CISA’s KEV Catalog on publicly exposed assets that grant total control of the asset post-exploitation, while deferring action for lower-risk vulnerabilities. BOD 26-04 further establishes basic expectations for when agencies must check whether threat actors compromised the system before the patch was applied

29 July , 2026
The Hacker News

Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums and messaging platforms. One such service, Poison Claude, claims to offer access to Anthropic's large language models (LLMs), including Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6. "Advertisements for Poison Claude

5 August , 2026
The Hacker News

Paperclip AI Flaws Let Attackers Run Host Commands via Malicious Agent Imports

Two security flaws in Paperclip could let attackers execute commands on a network server or a developer's computer. Paperclip is an open-source control plane for teams of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, and both paths rely on importing a malicious agent and starting it. A third flaw could expose sensitive data and control-plane details through application programming interface (API) routes

5 August , 2026
The Hacker News

Veeam, Terraform MCP, Django Patch Critical Flaws, Led by CVSS 10.0 Cross-Tenant Bug

HashiCorp, Veeam, and the Django Software Foundation have patched 11 vulnerabilities across Terraform MCP Server, Veeam Service Provider Console, and Django. The three most serious: An unauthenticated flaw in Veeam's console that hands over a managed agent's credentials, rated 9.5 A cross-tenant flaw in HashiCorp's MCP server that lets one user's Terraform token be reused for later users'

5 August , 2026
The Hacker News

Trojanized npm Packages Employ NullReceiver Tactic to Decode C2 IP from Blockchain

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an evolution of the EtherHiding blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) technique that conceals the C2 server IP address inside a made-up destination address of a completely empty Ethereum transfer. The new dead drop resolver approach, observed in two trojanized npm packages "bianira-ui" and "fluid-type-ui," has been codenamed NullReceiver by

5 August , 2026