bleeping-computer Aug 11, 2026 · Crawled Aug 11, 2026

Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 400 flaws, 3 zero-days

1 Actors 1 Malware

AI Summary

Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 400 vulnerabilities, including three zero-days. One of these, CVE-2026-68820, was actively exploited in the wild by the North Korean threat actor Lazarus Group to elevate privileges and deploy a kernel-mode rootkit called FudModule. The other two zero-days, CVE-2026-62832 and CVE-2026-72971, were publicly disclosed but not confirmed as exploited. Check Point linked the exploitation of CVE-2026-68820 to Lazarus, highlighting ongoing targeting using local privilege escalation in Windows drivers.

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Extracted Entities 2 found

Threat Actor Lazarus Group → Malware FudModule →

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs 41 techniques

T1003 OS Credential Dumping · Credential Access T1018 Remote System Discovery · Discovery T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol · Lateral Movement T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares · Lateral Movement T1021.004 SSH · Lateral Movement T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information · Defense Evasion T1029 Scheduled Transfer · Exfiltration T1040 Network Sniffing · Credential Access T1053.005 Scheduled Task · Execution T1055 Process Injection · Defense Evasion T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter · Execution T1059.001 PowerShell · Execution T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation · Privilege Escalation T1070.001 Clear Windows Event Logs · Defense Evasion T1071.001 Web Protocols · Command And Control T1078 Valid Accounts · Defense Evasion T1082 System Information Discovery · Discovery T1085 T1085 T1087 Account Discovery · Discovery T1090 Proxy · Command And Control T1098 Account Manipulation · Persistence T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer · Command And Control T1129 Shared Modules · Execution T1133 External Remote Services · Persistence T1134 Access Token Manipulation · Defense Evasion T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application · Initial Access T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain · Initial Access T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution · Execution T1204.002 Malicious File · Execution T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services · Lateral Movement T1218.011 Rundll32 · Defense Evasion T1485 Data Destruction · Impact T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact · Impact T1495 Firmware Corruption · Impact T1534 Internal Spearphishing · Lateral Movement T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle · Credential Access T1566 Phishing · Initial Access T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment · Initial Access T1566.002 Spearphishing Link · Initial Access T1583 Acquire Infrastructure · Resource Development T1610 Deploy Container · Defense Evasion