Top Security Breaches 2026-08-07
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INC Ransomware Emerges as Dominant Actor Exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaws
Source: The Hacker News | Published: 2026-08-03T16:15:13+00:00 | Score: 18.003
The INC Ransomware operation has emerged as the “dominant threat actor” exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances.
In a report published over the weekend, Resecurity said it observed the INC Ransomware accelerating its activity since the beginning of August 2026, listing multiple victims on its data leak site. Per
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Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People
Source: The Hacker News | Published: 2026-08-06T06:04:30+00:00 | Score: 17.876
Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts.
The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and exposed records belonging to at least 100 million people. Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, personally took at least $495,000 from
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Leaked n8n API Tokens Exposed Live Instances to Credential Theft
Source: The Hacker News | Published: 2026-08-05T10:35:29+00:00 | Score: 17.632
GitGuardian researchers found 321 n8n instances accepting API tokens exposed in public GitHub commits and demonstrated four ways attackers could use them to access sensitive data and downstream credentials without exploiting a software vulnerability.
We scanned public GitHub commits for exposed n8n API tokens and identified 4,576 unique credentials associated with 1,255 hostnames. Of the 896
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Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities
Source: The Hacker News | Published: 2026-08-06T12:16:58+00:00 | Score: 15.793
Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network.
Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844 in the United States, but Forescout could not confirm any were compromised. That figure counts exposed
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Swiss government SharePoint breach compromised 200 accounts
Source: BleepingComputer | Published: 2026-08-06T18:14:19+00:00 | Score: 15.438
Switzerland’s federal IT office says hackers exploited vulnerabilities to breach its Microsoft SharePoint servers and compromised approximately 200 accounts. […]
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Hackers run khunt post-exploitation toolkit from Oracle database
Source: BleepingComputer | Published: 2026-08-05T19:55:25+00:00 | Score: 13.91
Hackers exploited a SQL injection vulnerability to install a post-exploitation toolkit directly inside an Oracle database that was used to breach a corporate network. […]
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Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service
Source: The Hacker News | Published: 2026-08-06T07:19:54+00:00 | Score: 13.391
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021.
Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least 18 companies, including firms in California, New York and Nebraska, and others abroad, according to the Justice Department.
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Meta AI model hacked a company during misconfigured cyber test
Source: BleepingComputer | Published: 2026-08-06T16:11:39+00:00 | Score: 12.835
Meta has become the latest AI company to confirm that one of its models hacked a real organization during cybersecurity testing, as similar incidents continue to emerge following OpenAI’sOpenAI’s initial disclosure that its agents breached Hugging Face. […]
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