How an Emerging Industrial Protocol Family Could Put OT at Risk
New research shows how attacks against some unprotected TSN protocols could allow attackers to disrupt or manipulate physical processes
Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 398 CVEs across a broad range of products, with 42 rated critical and three zero-days including one actively exploited in the wild. Notable vulnerabilities include a critical remote code execution flaw in Windows Deployment Services TFTP Server with a CVSS score of 9.8, a critical Windows DHCP Server RCE affecting unauthenticated remote attackers, and the actively exploited Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock elevation of privilege vulnerability. Elevation of privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 40.7% of this month's patches, followed by remote code execution vulnerabilities at 27.1%.
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Microsoft has confirmed a maximum severity remote-code execution vulnerability in Entra ID that is being actively exploited in the wild. The company states the flaw has been fully mitigated and requires no further action from customers.
Researchers have identified a new attack technique called Cryptographic Context Injection that encrypts malicious instructions to evade safety guardrails in AI models including Grok and Gemini. The method works by concealing harmful prompts until they are decrypted within a trusted execution environment, effectively bypassing existing content filtering mechanisms. This vulnerability highlights a novel attack vector against popular large language models that defenders should monitor.