N-able’s N-central RMM platform is under active exploitation through an authentication-bypass flaw, with Huntress reporting multiple affected organizations and observed follow-on activity including reconnaissance, process-list requests, and abuse of the Take Control remote-access feature on downstream hosts. N-central is a remote monitoring and management platform used to administer and remotely access systems across customer environments.
CBS News, NBC News, and CNN Newsource via KEYT reported that the FBI and EPA said water and wastewater utilities in at least seven U.S. states experienced malicious cyber incidents, with some activity degrading operations. The reporting says the activity targeted internet-facing programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, which utilities use to monitor and control equipment such as pumps, valves, pressure and chemical processes.
Security Affairs, Mallory.ai, and Field Effect reported that Broadcom released patches on July 29 for five VMware vulnerabilities affecting ESXi, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion, including three rated critical.
They said the most severe issue, CVE-2026-59309, is a critical vCenter authentication bypass rated CVSS 9.8, and that Broadcom also fixed CVE-2026-59310, a critical directory traversal flaw in the Syslog Server component that can lead to remote code execution over the network. vCenter is VMware’s centralized management platform for ESXi hosts and virtual machines.