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    Aug 20
    🔥 15 NEW Stories. Trust got weaponized everywhere. Defender driver EDR bypass • ClickFix + BYOVD • Grandoreiro sideloading • CircleCI MCP RCE • Gogs 10.0 RCE • n8n RCE • refrigeration controller flaws • C2 hidden in whitespace • PostScript memory leaks • Salt Typhoon
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    Aug 22
    ⚡ TikTok will pay $400 million over child privacy allegations. The U.S. case accused TikTok of knowingly allowing children under 13 to create accounts, collecting data from Kids Mode users, and failing to honor parental deletion requests. Read the details:
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    Aug 21
    ‼️ 14 npm packages drop RedC2 4.0 on Linux. The packages work as advertised, but also launch its RedShell beacon on import. RedC2 includes an LLM-backed agent that turns natural-language instructions into beacon commands. Read - thehackernews.com/2026/08/14-tro…
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    Aug 21
    ⚡ UPDATE: Microsoft says the CVSS 10.0 Entra ID flaw was not exploited in the wild. Its original bulletin marked the vulnerability as exploited. On August 21, after @TheHackersNews contacted Microsoft, the company corrected the status to “No.” We’ve updated the headline to
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    Aug 21
    ‼️ Attackers can weaponize Defender’s own signed driver to delete security software at boot. BTR.sys runs from Ring 0 before Defender’s user-mode services start. Check Point showed it deleting the full Defender stack on Windows 11 25H2 with Tamper Protection enabled. See how it

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