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This Week in Cybersecurity

Fresh CISA KEV analysis with real remediation steps. Written personally by Jordan Polasek every Sunday β€” plus a mid-week supplement when the catalog gets noisy. Drawing on 13+ years of Texas MSP experience.

πŸ”΄ POSTED TODAY Β· MID-WEEK INTEL May 25, 2026 Β· 10 min read Β· Jordan Polasek

Drupal SQL Injection, Microsoft Defender Double, Cisco SD-WAN Emergency Directive 26-03

CISA added Drupal Core CVE-2026-9082 to KEV this morning β€” active exploitation within days of the patch. Plus last Wednesday's Microsoft Defender double (CVE-2026-41091 + CVE-2026-45498) and the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller Emergency Directive 26-03 from May 14. Three urgent items in one week.

CVE-2026-9082 CVE-2026-41091 CVE-2026-20182 Drupal Defender ED 26-03
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SUNDAY RECAP Β· AI STACK May 24, 2026 Β· 9 min read

Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One: When the AI Stack Becomes the Attack Surface

Two CVEs added to CISA KEV β€” Langflow (LLM workflow builder) and Trend Micro Apex One. Why "AI tooling" is now real attack surface, and how to inventory LLM and security-product dependencies for the rest of 2026.

CVE-2025-34291CVE-2026-34926LLM Security
DEEP DIVE May 17, 2026 Β· 11 min read

AI-Driven Phishing Hits 41% of SMB Attacks β€” What Texas Businesses Should Actually Change

Voice cloning, perfect business English, vendor impersonation that references real ongoing matters. The 2018 anti-phishing training playbook does not work in 2026 β€” here are the four concrete changes that still do.

AI PhishingDMARCBEC Defense
CVE RECAP May 10, 2026 Β· 8 min read

Ivanti EPMM Hits KEV (Again), Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Auth Bypass β€” Edge Perimeter Patterns Continue

CVE-2026-6973 formally lands on KEV. CVE-2026-42897 is patched but the PoC is loose. Eight months of weekly recaps and the perimeter story has not changed β€” here is why, and what to actually do about it.

CVE-2026-6973Ivanti EPMMCisco SD-WAN
QUIET WEEK May 3, 2026 Β· 7 min read

Microsoft Defender CVE-2026-33825 and Supply-Chain Hardening for Texas SMBs

After two manic weeks at CISA, just one KEV add this time around. Use the spare bandwidth for what most SMBs never do: vendor security posture review and a real MFA audit. The checklist is here.

CVE-2026-33825Microsoft DefenderVendor Audit
12 CVEs Β· ACTIVE April 26, 2026 Β· 10 min read

Eight Vulnerabilities in One Day: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Triple, PaperCut, JetBrains, SimpleHelp

Twelve CVEs across two CISA KEV updates in one week, three of them a Cisco SD-WAN Manager critical-triple with a three-day federal deadline. Plus PaperCut ransomware (Lace Tempest / Clop) and the SimpleHelp pair Akira is running against MSPs.

CVE-2026-20122PaperCutSimpleHelpAkira
VINTAGE CVE April 19, 2026 Β· 9 min read

When 14-Year-Old CVEs Come Back: Microsoft VBA, Fortinet SQLi, Medusa Ransomware

CISA added six CVEs to KEV β€” including a 2012 Microsoft VBA flaw and a Fortinet SQL injection (CVE-2026-21643) that Storm-1175 is using to deploy Medusa ransomware. Technical debt is security debt that eventually comes due.

CVE-2012-1854CVE-2026-21643Medusa Ransomware
ZERO-DAY April 12, 2026 Β· 8 min read

Fortinet FortiClient EMS Zero-Day (CVE-2026-35616), Ivanti EPMM, and the Edge-Device Problem

A Fortinet pre-authentication API bypass with a three-day federal deadline, plus the Shadowserver early warning on Ivanti EPMM. Why 22% of breaches in 2025 came through edge appliances and what Texas SMBs should do about it.

CVE-2026-35616Fortinet EMSEdge Devices
CVE RECAP April 5, 2026 Β· 7 min read

Critical Vulnerabilities: Chrome Dawn WebGPU, Citrix NetScaler SAML, TrueConf Client β€” Patch Now

Three critical CVEs that opened our weekly recap cadence β€” CVE-2026-5281 (Chrome), CVE-2026-3055 (Citrix NetScaler), and the TrueConf integrity flaw. Step-by-step remediation for each.

CVE-2026-5281CVE-2026-3055Chrome / Citrix
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