Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2026-08-04 03:00 PDT

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2026-08-04 03:00 PDT

• Fake IRS letters target cryptocurrency holders
  Graham Cluley • 2026-08-04 02:02 • www.bitdefender.com
  Do you hold cryptocurrency? Have you received a letter telling you that you must register with a so-called “Digital Asset Compliance Portal”?

  If so, it’s time to hit the brakes, because it sounds like someone is trying to scam you.

  Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
  https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/fake-irs-letters-cryptocurrency

• CISA Adds Exploited N-able N-central Flaw to KEV After Customer Compromises
  The Hacker News • 2026-08-04 00:00 • thehackernews.com
  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports of active exploitation in the wild.

  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-18577 (CVSS score: 8.2), is a case of incomplete patching for CVE-2026-18556 (CVSS score: 8.2) that allows
  https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-adds-exploited-n-able-n-central.html

• 178: Ubiquiti
  Darknet Diaries • 2026-08-04 00:00 • darknetdiaries.com

  Nickolas Sharp worked for Ubiquiti, a company that makes networking equipment. He noticed that there were some security problems at work. He tried to point them out, but didn’t feel like he was being listened to enough. What do you do when the company you work for isn’t securing their software up to your standards? Well, he thought he needed to teach them a lesson, but in the end, he learned an even bigger lesson.

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  https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/178/

Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.