In July 2026, Insikt Group® identified 85 high-impact vulnerabilities that should be prioritized for remediation, 36 of which had a Very Critical Recorded Future Risk Score. This represents a 44% increase from last month. 26 of these vulnerabilities were surfaced through the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 55 were reported by vendors, and four were primarily surfaced through honeypot data.

The 85 vulnerabilities in this report affected products from 61 vendors, with Microsoft accounting for approximately 12% of the vulnerabilities. The remaining exposure was concentrated across a range of enterprise software, security products, network infrastructure, developer tooling, and cloud platform vendors.

Insikt Group previously created a Nuclei template to detect the Langflow vulnerability (CVE-2025-3248) featured in this report. These are available to Recorded Future customers via the Recorded Future Intelligence Platform.

Quick reference: July 2026 Vulnerability Table

All 81 vulnerabilities below were actively exploited or operationally weaponized in July 2026. This table does not include the four CVEs that were primarily surfaced through our honeypot data, which are available to Recorded Future Intelligence Platform customers via the CVE Monthly report. The table below also provides examples of public PoCs identified by Insikt Group. These PoCs were not tested for accuracy or efficacy. Vulnerability management teams should exercise caution and verify the validity of PoCs before testing.

Table 1: List of vulnerabilities that were actively exploited in July, 2026 based on Recorded Future data (excluding honeypot-sourced CVEs).

Key trends: July 2026

• In July 2026, the Dysphoria botnet was used to exploit known IoT and embedded-device flaws to build DDoS and relay infrastructure; Cloud Atlas abused Microsoft Equation Editor to deliver CloudAtlasGo; Armored Likho used a malicious Windows shortcut to deploy BusySnake Stealer; and JADEPUFFER and Cl0p targeted exposed AI and product-lifecycle platforms for encryption, data theft, and extortion.


• 57 of the 85 vulnerabilities enabled remote code execution (RCE), including flaws affecting Microsoft, Fortinet, Langflow, ServiceNow, WordPress, and Joomla ecosystems, internet-facing security appliances, and embedded network devices.


• We identified public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits and scanners for 60 of the 85 vulnerabilities in this report.


• The most commonly observed weakness classes were CWE-78 (OS Command Injection), CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type), CWE-94 (Code Injection), and CWE-502 (Deserialization of Untrusted Data).


• 14 of the 85 vulnerabilities in this month’s table are at least 5 years old, with the oldest approximately 18 years old, reinforcing how threat actors continue to exploit long-known weaknesses in environments where patching has lagged. Additionally, the fastest observed time from a vulnerability’s public disclosure to reported exploitation was less than one day.

Trend analysis: Malware-Linked Exploitation Spans IoT, Email, and Enterprise Applications

An Insikt Group® TTP Instance on the Dysphoria botnet linked CVE-2013-3307, CVE-2016-20016, CVE-2017-17215, CVE-2017-5259, CVE-2018-14558, CVE-2020-25499, CVE-2020-8515, CVE-2022-35733, CVE-2025-28137, CVE-2025-34152, CVE-2025-55182, CVE-2025-9528 to the exploitation of routers, gateways, cameras, repeaters, and other embedded Linux devices. Dysphoria combined known RCE flaws with weak Telnet and Secure Shell credentials to enroll compromised systems into DDoS and relay infrastructure.

Figure 1: Vulnerability Intelligence Card® for CVE-2017-17215 in Recorded Future (Source: Recorded Future)