Infosec bits for 2026 week 33

Anele Siwela | Aug. 14, 2026, 2:04 p.m.

Cybersecurity News:

R1.56-million investigation into metro’s R2-billion cybersecurity breach leaves more questions than answers [Jan Vermeulen, My Broadband]

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation [OpenAI, Open AI]

Cisco says software vulnerability could let hackers crash firewalls [Cybersecurity dive, Eric Geller]

Black Hat NOC sees AI security failures firsthand [Alissa Irei, Techtarget]

Cyber Attacks & Data Breaches:

Ransomware gangs intensify attacks in SA [Admire Moyo, Itweb]

Data breach costs climb as AI-powered attacks surge [Steph Brown, fm-magazine]

Vulnerabilities & Patches:

Fortinet Patches Multiple Authentication Vulnerabilities in FortiWeb, FortiManager, and FortiClient [Guru Baran, Cybersecurity News]

Attackers strike via critical VMware vCenter vulnerability [Mels Dees, Techzine]

Cisco fixes vulnerability exploited to DoS its firewalls (CVE-2026-20349) [Zeljka Zorz, Helpnet Security]

VMWare Products Multiple Vulnerabilities [Hkcert, Hkcert]

Rapid7 Analysis: Microsoft SharePoint JWT Token Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-55040) [Stephen Fewer, Rapid7]

Security researchers discover SIM card vulnerabilities in mobiles, EV chargers [Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting engineering]

Fewer than 20 AI prompts uncovered a dangerous Zoom vulnerability, researchers say [Omer Kabir, Calcalistech]