Hackers Aren't Breaking In Anymore — They're Logging In, and CISA Just Confirmed It's Happening Now
The federal government's cyber defense agency just confirmed that four software flaws — in Microsoft's IKE service and SharePoint, VMware's vCenter, and Apple's macOS — are being actively exploited by attackers right now, not theoretically, not in a lab. What ties three of the four together is telling: they attack authentication itself, the systems that decide who gets to log in. That's a pattern, and it should change how you think about what a 'hack' actually looks like in 2026.
Bottom Line
THE BOTTOM LINE: Four actively exploited flaws landing on CISA's KEV list in one batch isn't unusual — what's notable is that most of them target authentication and access control, confirming that the front door, not the walls, is now the primary battlefield. Combined with Medusa's victim count jumping past 500, the signal is clear: this is a sustained trend of attackers exploiting trust itself, and the gap between a patch being available and a patch being applied is where the damage happens.