Cybersecurity

Infosec News Nuggets - August 18, 2026

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Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed, including a high-severity flaw in GitLab allowing unauthenticated deletion of public projects and a Cisco VPN flaw exploited to crash devices. Additionally, a massive data dump impacting McDonald's and other large enterprises stems from Azure credential theft, and a fraud operation targets crypto users by validating phone numbers. Cybersecurity professionals must urgently patch systems, monitor for exploitation, and enhance credential security to defend against these evolving threats.

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