Report Date: 2026-08-22
New KEVs: 7 ▲ +4 vs last weekRansomware Victims: 244 ▲ +15 vs last week
7 vulnerabilities were added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog this period. Trueconf products show the strongest concentration of risk signals this week. Threat intelligence sources this period reference Cl0p. Ransomware activity is moderate with 244 new victims posted to leak sites over the last 7 days, with Qilin posting the most victims.
Patch This Week
The top 3 KEVs to remediate right now, ranked by CISA deadline proximity, ransomware exploitation, and severity. These are confirmed exploited — if you do nothing else today, patch these.
- CVE-2025-62593 – Ray-Project Ray | CVSS 9.4 | EPSS 1.0% / 60th pct | PoC Available
CISA deadline: 2026-08-20 (overdue by 2d) — Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines. - CVE-2026-33824 – Microsoft Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Service Extensions | CVSS 9.8 | EPSS 77.9% / 100th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-08-21 (overdue by 1d) — Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines. - CVE-2026-59310 – Broadcom VMware vCenter | CVSS 9.8 | EPSS 2.4% / 83th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-08-21 (overdue by 1d) — Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
Top KEVs
Vulnerabilities confirmed actively exploited in the wild by CISA — ranked by ransomware use, then severity. Patch these before anything else.
This Reporting Window
- CVE-2026-33824 – Microsoft Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Service Extensions | CVSS 9.8 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 77.9% / 100th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-59310 – Broadcom VMware vCenter | CVSS 9.8 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 2.4% / 83th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-65400 – Apple macOS | CVSS 9.8 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.8% / 52th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-72530 – TrueConf Server | CVSS 9.5 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 1.0% / 59th pct | Ransomware Use: No | PoC Available
- CVE-2025-62593 – Ray-Project Ray | CVSS 9.4 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 1.0% / 60th pct | Ransomware Use: No | PoC Available
- CVE-2026-72529 – TrueConf Server | CVSS 9.3 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.8% / 53th pct | Ransomware Use: No | PoC Available
- CVE-2026-64849 – MLflow MLflow | CVSS 9.3 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 8.2% / 94th pct | Ransomware Use: No | PoC Available
Security News
Advisories, threat research, and incident reports from 12 sources across government, commercial research, and security journalism — prioritized by source credibility.
Threat Actors Mentioned
Cl0p
- CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · 2 days ago – Johnson Controls Simplex Incident Manager
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker with low privileges to extract user credentials (passwords and authentication tokens) from system memory, potentially leading t… - CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · 4 days ago – Siemens Simcenter Nastran
View CSAF Summary Simcenter Nastran is affected by a stack overflow vulnerability that could be triggered when an application binary reads arbitrary string as a file argument. If a user is tricked to run one of the impac… - CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · 4 days ago – CISA Malcolm
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition or execute arbitrary code. The following versions of CISA Malcolm are affected: Malcolm &l… - SANS ISCResearch · 3 days ago – Simple Scans for Cloud Metadata Service, (Wed, Aug 19th)
Cloud providers typically expose a REST API at 169.254.169.254 that allows code running on virtual machines to retrieve machine-specific data. Some of the data is more or less harmless, such as the region the machine is … - SANS ISCResearch · 5 days ago – Apple Patches iOS and macOS, (Mon, Aug 17th)
Apple today released updates for iOS/iPadOS (26 and 18) and macOS 26. This update fixes 108 vulnerabilities and comes about two weeks after the much smaller macOS update that addressed the single screen-sharing vulnerabi… - Unit 42Incident · yesterday – Connecting the Dots: Securing the Overlooked Corners of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Supply Chain
Attackers are targeting CI/CD pipelines and developer tools instead of application code, requiring total SDLC visibility and strict security controls The post Connecting the Dots: Securing the Overlooked Corners of the S… - Unit 42Research · 2 days ago – Identity Abuse Through Trusted Communication Channels
Unit 42 details how attackers exploit enterprise collaboration tools for identity phishing and credential theft. Discover key defense strategies. The post Identity Abuse Through Trusted Communication Channels appeared fi… - Sophos X-OpsResearch · 3 days ago – Fake AI, real malware: Attackers impersonating AI brands
<p>A year of MDR casework shows attackers repeatedly exploiting demand for AI tools</p> Categories: Threat Research Tags: AI, malvertising, infostealer, Sophos X-Ops - Sophos X-OpsResearch · 5 days ago – 2608-patch-tuesday
<p>421 CVEs, a relatively small set of Edge patches, and two spicy stragglers</p> Categories: Threat Research Tags: Patch Tuesday, MICROSOFT PATCH TUESDAY - The RecordIncident · yesterday – U.S. Bank says breach claims related to fourth-party incident
The bank said there is no evidence that its own systems, networks or data repositories were compromised. - The RecordIncident · yesterday – Canadaâs Hospital for Sick Children attacked by cybercriminals again as employee data stolen
The Hospital for Sick Children â which was hit in a ransomware incident in 2022 that disabled some of its systems â released a statement on Thursday warning of a data theft incident they believe is tied to a third-pa… - Security Affairs (APT)Incident · yesterday – Fake Conferences, OAuth and WhatsApp: Inside Russia’s New Espionage Tactics
Google tracks three Russia-linked espionage clusters using phishing and legitimate authentication tools to target researchers, diplomats and defense staff. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group tracked three separate … - Security Affairs (APT)News · 6 days ago – Mustang Panda Upgrades CoolClient With a Kernel Rootkit
Mustang Panda upgraded CoolClient with a signed kernel driver that hides processes, files and network activity, making the backdoor harder to detect. HoneyMyte, also known as Mustang Panda, has pushed its CoolClient back… - Security Affairs (Cybercrime)Incident · today – ToxicPanda 2.0 Gets a Major Upgrade, Expanding Attacks Across 16 Countries
ToxicPanda 2.0 targets 349 financial apps and abuses Android Wireless Debugging to gain deeper device access and steal banking credentials. ToxicPanda used to be a Europe-focused nuisance targeting a manageable list of b… - Security Affairs (Cybercrime)Incident · yesterday – Cl0p Targets 40+ Organizations Through PTC Windchill Flaw
Cl0p claims over 40 organizations fell victim to attacks exploiting a PTC Windchill and FlexPLM vulnerability. Cl0p is using a familiar strategy again: exploit one flaw in enterprise software to attack many companies, th…
Ransomware Activity
Victim counts posted to ransomware group leak sites — use this to gauge which groups are most active and which sectors and regions are being targeted.
25 new victims posted today
7-day total: 244 via Ransomware.live
Infostealer Exposure: 3,779 employee credentials and 320,087 user credentials compromised via infostealer malware across victim organisations — indicating credential theft likely preceded these ransomware deployments.
Most Active Groups
Group Intelligence
- Qilin — Qilin ransomware was first observed in July of 2022. Qilin Ransomware is written in Golang and supports multiple encryption modes; all of which are controlled by the operator. Qilin actors practice double extortion – demanding payment for a decryptor, as well as for the non-release of stolen data.
- Thegentlemen — The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.
- Direwolf — Dire Wolf is a sophisticated human-operated ransomware group first documented in May 2025, written in Golang using Curve25519/ChaCha20 encryption, targeting manufacturing and technology sectors across 13+ countries with ransoms up to $500,000, operated by a tight core team rather than a broad affiliate program.
- Coinbasecartel — CoinbaseCartel specializes in data acquisition through system access and strategic partnerships. It focus exclusively on data exfiltration—our operations never involve system encryption or operational disruption.
- Incransom — INC Ransom is a prolific ransomware-as-a-service operation active since July 2023 that systematically targets healthcare, government, education, and manufacturing sectors in North America and Europe, having posted over 200 victims in 2025 alone with no sector off-limits.
Most Targeted Sectors
Top Countries
US (76), IT (20), DE (18), FR (9), GB (9)
Notable Incidents
- WEBA Meubelen (Retail & E-Commerce · BE) — claimed by Qilin. N/A Press coverage →
- icnavais.com (Not Found · PT) — claimed by Lockbit5. The Itaguaí Construções Navais S.A. known as ICN, is a Brazilian state-owned defence company special… Press coverage →
- Berlin Brandenburgische Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft (Other · DE) — claimed by Qilin. N/A Press coverage →
- Woodhaven Association (Other · US) — claimed by Play. United States Press coverage →
- Foresee Pharmaceuticals (Healthcare · TW) — claimed by Incransom. Foresee Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
https://www.foreseepharma.comTotal leak: 1,2TB
Leak includes: Drug Master File, ASMF, FDA/EMA, R&D, Financial statements, Clinical study reports and other confidential informati…
Press coverage →
Vendor-Specific Risks
Vendors with confirmed KEV exploitation this week — the stacked bar shows how that exposure breaks down across exploited CVEs (red), critical CVEs to watch (orange), and news mentions (yellow). Prioritize patching vendors with the largest red segment.
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