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Monthly report · August 2026

Cyber news in August 2026

Cyber coverage in August 2026: 55 news events, 15% fewer than in July 2026, drawn from 128 outlet reports. The most covered name was FBI, in 8 events.

How many events, day by day?

Cybersecurity desk: news events homed on the desk per day, August 2026 (UTC days). Source: GetYourBrief's record of the outlets' reports.

Who was in the news most?

  1. FBI 8
  2. CISA 6
  3. Donald Trump 6
  4. Iran 4
  5. FTC 4
  6. Environmental Protection Agency 4
  7. OpenAI 4
  8. Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre 3
  9. Programmable Logic Controllers 3
  10. Siemens 3
  11. Anthropic 3
  12. U.S. Department of Justice 2
  13. Police National Legal Database (PNLD) 2
  14. Apollo Global Management 2
  15. Which? 2

Counts are events (one per story, however many outlets carried it) on this desk in August 2026 that named each person, company or body. Source: GetYourBrief's record of the outlets' reports.

Which stories did the most outlets carry?

  1. Aug 5 Drone with explosives found at Leipzig/Halle Airport, device defused 7
  2. Aug 17 mcall.com: “Burnham reportedly exchanged messages with White House official impostor” 6
  3. Aug 1 India Today: “Michigan joins Minnesota as cyberattacks hit US water systems” 4
  4. Aug 6 NSW proposes licence facial images for national database 4
  5. Aug 19 Reports: new hires face identity theft risk during onboarding 4
  6. Aug 26 OpenAI says AI agents hacked its own systems 4
  7. Aug 26 Boston Scientific says cybersecurity incident disrupted global order processing, shipping 4
  8. Aug 1 Allstate Canada reports summer peak in theft claims 3
  9. Aug 3 FBI and EPA report water system breaches in at least seven states 3
  10. Aug 3 wptv.com: “Attacks on water systems could disrupt service for consumers, first responders” 3
  11. Aug 3 FCC expands Covered List to include some advanced robotic devices 3
  12. Aug 9 Report: K3 Scout surveillance drones sent heartbeat communications to a Chinese IP address 3
  13. Aug 11 South Korea and U.S. agencies warn of Gunra ransomware attacks 3
  14. Aug 19 Erie County biometric ban 3
  15. Aug 20 Harris, El Paso counties challenge federal election conditions on security grants 3

What kind of news was it?

  1. Security 30
  2. Threat intelligence 28
  3. Data breach 9
  4. Vulnerability 8
  5. Ransomware 3

Categories come from the pipeline's classifier; how they are assigned.

Week by week

  1. Jul 27The week of July 27 to August 2, 20263
  2. Aug 3The week of August 3 to 9, 202624
  3. Aug 10The week of August 10 to 16, 202610
  4. Aug 17The week of August 17 to 23, 202613
  5. Aug 24The week of August 24 to 30, 20265

Sources: the outlets' reports linked on this page; counts and times from GetYourBrief's record of those reports (methodology).