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Week in review: Salesforce and ServiceNow portals exposed for 17 months, exploited Metabase 0-day
Weekly digest: exploited Metabase zero-day breached Framework; Salesforce/ServiceNow portals read for 17 months; Microsoft patched 400+ flaws.
Help Net Security's week in review aggregates top stories: a 'City-Forum' campaign tracked by Reco has been pulling records from Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months, and Framework suffered a breach via an exploited Metabase zero-day exposing customer contact and IP data. It also covers Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixing 400+ flaws including exploited zero-day CVE-2026-68820, Cisco's fix for exploited firewall DoS bug CVE-2026-20349 (added to CISA KEV), and a second N-able N-central hotfix for actively exploited CVE-2026-18577. Other items include GitHub expanding Dependabot malware alerts to eight package ecosystems and EU AI Act enforcement beginning on 2 August 2026.
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 430 by Pierluigi Paganini
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Backdoor Xz Utils Linux Open Source
Infosecurity Magazine covers the XZ Utils open-source backdoor, a malicious implant in liblzma that targeted OpenSSH on major Linux distributions.
The article covers the XZ Utils backdoor, a malicious implant introduced into the widely used open-source compression library. The compromised liblzma code manipulated functions used by OpenSSH, nearly reaching stable releases of major Linux distributions before discovery. The incident is a prominent example of software supply chain compromise targeting critical open-source infrastructure.
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⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered Phishing, Android Spying Tool, Linux Exploit, GitHub RCE & More
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