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Digital Warfare Podcast Daily Brief #140 August 03, 2026
Summary
N-able has released build 2026.3.1.7 to address CVE-2026-18577, an authentication bypass vulnerability actively exploited against N-central remote monitoring and management servers. The flaw represents an alternative exploitation method for the previously patched CVE-2026-18556 and affects N-central instances not running the emergency hotfix.
Attackers gained administrative access, used the legitimate Take Control feature to connect to managed endpoints, and registered Cloudflared as a service to maintain access after control of the N-central server was revoked. Because N-central is…
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