If you've been preparing your company for a CMMC Level 2 certification assessment, you may have heard some confusing news: the federal government has put CMMC Phase II on hold.
That part is true.
What isn't true is that CMMC has disappeared.
On July 13, 2026, the Department announced the immediate suspension of CMMC Phase II, which had been scheduled to begin November 10, 2026. At the same time, officials launched a 60-day review of the program. Phase I self-assessment requirements remain in place.
AI phishing attacks are making familiar cyber scams faster, more convincing, and harder for employees to recognize. Recent 2026 threat intelligence shows attackers expanding beyond email into Microsoft Teams, voice calls, trusted cloud services, and highly personalized messages. For businesses, protecting Microsoft 365 identities and training employees to verify unusual requests has become increasingly important.
Microsoft has confirmed that last month's Windows security updates are breaking SSH connections on some Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 systems.
More than 60,000 D-Link network-attached storage devices that have reached end-of-life are vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability with a publicly available exploit.
Attackers could exploit several vulnerabilities in the Mazda Connect infotainment unit, present in multiple car models including Mazda 3 (2014-2021), to execute arbitrary code with root permission.
Today, cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks warned customers to restrict access to their next-generation firewalls because of a potential remote code execution vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released updates for Instant AOS-8 and AOS-10 software to address two critical vulnerabilities in Aruba Networking Access Points..
The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack.
This Cybersecurity Threat Advisory breaks down multiple critical vulnerabilities in the Cacti framework, an open-source network monitoring and fault management tool. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code and compromise network infrastructure.
Microsoft has acknowledged a new known issue causing this month's KB5037765 security update for Windows Server 2019 to fail to install with 0x800f0982 errors.
Over the past year, we've witnessed an explosive growth spurt in consumer-focused AI productivity tools that has once again transformed the way we work. Once the realm of data science and engineering teams, generative AI was packaged and delivered to the masses in 2023.
A critical vulnerability in GitLab, labeled CVE-2023-7028, is under active attack by threat actors to achieve account takeover, as reported by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Apple has backported security patches released in March to older iPhones and iPads, fixing an iOS Kernel zero-day tagged as exploited in attacks.
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