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July 15, 2026 | Read Online
Massive Patch Tuesday, AI-powered vulnerability discovery, and active exploitation of SonicWall SMA1000 flaws…
Executive Summary
This week’s Patch Tuesday saw a record-breaking 416 Windows vulnerabilities published by Microsoft. Meanwhile, an AI-powered “vulnerability vending machine” has been built to automatically discover complex software vulnerabilities. Additionally, SonicWall has issued an urgent security advisory confirming active exploitation of two critical vulnerabilities affecting its SMA1000 Series appliances.
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Patch Tuesday - July 2026 Microsoft published a record-breaking 416 Windows vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday, including two vulnerabilities that are already being exploited in the wild. Rapid7 noted that browser vulns are not included in the Patch Tuesday count. Rapid7
The Risk of Exposed Cloud Functions and How to Harden Mandiant security assessments frequently identify publicly exposed serverless applications that lack authentication, often as a result of specific business requirements. Serverless deployments typically run custom-developed code that incorporates third-party packages, making them targets for a wide range of application-level attacks. Google Cloud Blog
AI Security Is Never Finished: Building the Continuous Red Teaming Loop Security programs are built around moments of closure, but AI security refuses to cooperate with that model. A passing test is useful evidence, but only for a specific system, configuration, and moment. Production AI keeps moving, and attackers adapt just as quickly. Checkpoint Blog
OkoBot Malware Uses ClickFix and SeedHunter to Steal Ledger and Trezor Seed Phrases A newly documented malware framework dubbed OkoBot is targeting cryptocurrency users with a multi-stage intrusion chain designed to capture Ledger and Trezor recovery phrases, browser credentials, wallet files, keystrokes, screenshots, and application video recordings. GBHackers
LabubaRAT Rust Malware Masquerades as NVIDIA Software to Backdoor Windows Systems A previously undocumented Rust-based remote access trojan, dubbed LabubaRAT, which masquerades as legitimate NVIDIA software to establish persistent access on Windows systems. The malware was identified by the company’s Adversary Pursuit Group (APG). GBHackers
TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM). The Hacker News
Microsoft Patches Multiple Windows RDP Flaws That Expose Sensitive Data Microsoft has addressed five information disclosure vulnerabilities affecting the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in its July 2026 Patch Tuesday release, each carrying an “Important” severity rating and posing risks to organizations that rely heavily on remote desktop connectivity for daily operations. CyberPress
We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out Intruder built an AI-powered “vulnerability vending machine” that combines code slicing with LLMs to automatically discover complex software vulnerabilities. The company explains how the system found and exploited a previously unknown WordPress plugin zero-day. BleepingComputer
SonicWall SMA1000 Flaws Actively Exploited for SSRF and Remote Code Execution SonicWall has issued an urgent security advisory (SNWLID-2026-0008) confirming active, in-the-wild exploitation of two critical vulnerabilities affecting its SMA1000 Series appliances. The flaws allow attackers to chain an unauthenticated SSRF bug with a post-authentication code injection flaw. CyberPress
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