Cyber Security Week in Review: August 7, 2026
In brief: a critical N-able flaw exploited in the wild; Russian hackers target hotel Wi-Fi systems; and more.
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Request DemoIn brief: a critical N-able flaw exploited in the wild; Russian hackers target hotel Wi-Fi systems; and more.
14 min readThe attackers gained access through a vulnerable autocomplete search feature in a public-facing Java application hosted on Apache Tomcat.
2 min readThe attack, called ChainDrop, began after hackers infected the keyv and cacheable packages.
2 min readResearchers started with a lower-level employee's compromised email account and used the AI assistant to gather information and plan an attack.
2 min readResearchers said INC Ransomware was not the first group to abuse the flaws, but it has been the most aggressive in combining both vulnerabilities into a full attack chain.
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