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Cycle #135

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a critical sharepoint server flaw was exploited in the wild fast enough that us cyber authorities mandated federal patching within days, while oracle, fortinet and building-automation flaws were simultaneously confirmed under active exploitation. the interval between a vulnerability becoming public and being weaponized has compressed to days; defenders are structurally behind the clock.

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two high-severity vulnerabilities were under active exploitation simultaneously: a cvss 9.8 flaw in splunk enterprise allowing unauthenticated remote file manipulation, with a federal patch deadline of june 23; and an oracle peoplesoft pre-authentication remote code execution zero-day exploited for two weeks before a patch existed, compromising over 100 organizations, predominantly universities. separately, the fortibleed campaign was disclosed as having compromised over 86,000 fortigate devices through default credential abuse. the convergence of three distinct critical exploits in a single reporting window is atypical. 93%
microsoft sharepoint servers are under active exploitation via a flaw letting any site member run remote code, prompting an emergency cisa patch order before fixes were widely available. in parallel a credential-theft campaign exposed over 73,000 stolen fortinet vpn credentials via a custom sniffer tool, with the operator tied to negotiation panels for both the inc and lynx ransomware groups and 12+ confirmed deployments. 92%
microsoft's july patch tuesday fixed 570 flaws including three zero-days — an unusually large batch — and us authorities confirmed a critical sharepoint server vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild before any patch existed. alongside public exploits for wordpress core remote-code flaws and a 7-zip archive bug, the week shows attackers operating ahead of the patch cycle across widely deployed software simultaneously. 92%
a sharepoint server flaw microsoft patched in may has been actively exploited in ransomware operations since early july, attributed by researchers to a china-linked group. separately microsoft's patch cycle covered 398 vulnerabilities including a windows driver zero-day already under attack. the gap between patch availability and exploitation continuing for months is the notable part, not the flaw itself. 92%
an unusually dense set of active exploitation surfaced: a citrix flaw driving dragonforce ransomware across six unrelated organizations, palo alto and oracle peoplesoft zero-days exploited since may, a microsoft defender zero-day patched 29 days after public exploit, and large breaches at kddi (12 million) and assuranceamerica (7 million driver licenses). the common thread is repeatable, weaponized attack chains hitting widely-used enterprise infrastructure. 91%
a maximum-severity zero-day in the metabase analytics platform (cve-2026-72898) allows unauthenticated database access via the password-reset endpoint, with active exploitation confirmed since august 6 — every database connected to a compromised instance is exposed. alongside this, a new windows zero-day was published, a sharepoint bypass was weaponized within days of a public proof-of-concept, and chinese-linked storm-1175 switched to new c++ ransomware built specifically to hit the gap between disclosure and patching. the pattern this cycle is speed: the interval between a flaw becoming public and being used is collapsing. 91%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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