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How to create a ransomware playbook that works

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, best-practice, breach, business, communications, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, mobile, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, skills, social-engineering, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Staffing, skills, and training: Many organizations continue to find that cybersecurity experts are in short supply, so staffing up teams is a challenge. That can be problematic for a ransomware strategy. Companies need to have a variety of skills in place, including expertise in incident detection and prevention, incident response, firewall configuration, and other areas.They…
How to create a ransomware playbook that works

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, best-practice, breach, business, communications, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, mobile, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, skills, social-engineering, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Staffing, skills, and training: Many organizations continue to find that cybersecurity experts are in short supply, so staffing up teams is a challenge. That can be problematic for a ransomware strategy. Companies need to have a variety of skills in place, including expertise in incident detection and prevention, incident response, firewall configuration, and other areas.They…
BSI untersucht EClients

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: bsi, mail

Kleiner Nachtrag von gestern: Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) hat sich mit E-Mail-Clients befasst und diese im Hinblick auf ihre Sicherheit überprüft. Das BSI kommt zum Urteil, dass es keine wirklich großen Patzer gibt hat in … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/12/16/bsi-untersucht-e-mail-clients/
BSI untersucht EClients

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: bsi, mail

Kleiner Nachtrag von gestern: Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) hat sich mit E-Mail-Clients befasst und diese im Hinblick auf ihre Sicherheit überprüft. Das BSI kommt zum Urteil, dass es keine wirklich großen Patzer gibt hat in … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/12/16/bsi-untersucht-e-mail-clients/
DenialService and Source Code Exposure in React Server Components

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: remote-code-execution, service, vulnerability

In early December 2025, the React core team disclosed two new vulnerabilities affecting React Server Components (RSC). These issues Denial-of-Service and Source Code Exposure were found by security researchers probing the fixes for the previous week’s critical RSC vulnerability, known as “React2Shell”. While these newly discovered bugs do not enable Remote Code Execution, meaning… First…
Fake ‘Leonardo DiCaprio’ Torrent Spreads Agent Tesla Malware

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: malware, tool, windows

A fake Leonardo DiCaprio movie torrent is spreading Agent Tesla malware through trusted Windows tools The post Fake ‘Leonardo DiCaprio’ Torrent Spreads Agent Tesla Malware appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-fake-leonardo-dicaprio-torrent-malware/
Fake ‘Leonardo DiCaprio’ Torrent Spreads Agent Tesla Malware

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: malware, tool, windows

A fake Leonardo DiCaprio movie torrent is spreading Agent Tesla malware through trusted Windows tools The post Fake ‘Leonardo DiCaprio’ Torrent Spreads Agent Tesla Malware appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-fake-leonardo-dicaprio-torrent-malware/
SantaStealer Malware Steals Sensitive Files, Credentials, and Crypto Wallet Data

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: credentials, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, hacker, malware, service, threat

Cybersecurity researchers at Rapid7 Labs have uncovered a sophisticated new threat: SantaStealer, a malware-as-a-service information stealer actively promoted on Telegram channels and underground hacker forums. The malware, which recently rebranded from >>BluelineStealer,
SantaStealer Malware Steals Sensitive Files, Credentials, and Crypto Wallet Data

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: credentials, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, hacker, malware, service, threat

Cybersecurity researchers at Rapid7 Labs have uncovered a sophisticated new threat: SantaStealer, a malware-as-a-service information stealer actively promoted on Telegram channels and underground hacker forums. The malware, which recently rebranded from >>BluelineStealer,
How to create a ransomware playbook that works

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, best-practice, breach, business, communications, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, mobile, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, skills, social-engineering, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Staffing, skills, and training: Many organizations continue to find that cybersecurity experts are in short supply, so staffing up teams is a challenge. That can be problematic for a ransomware strategy. Companies need to have a variety of skills in place, including expertise in incident detection and prevention, incident response, firewall configuration, and other areas.They…
JumpCloud Remote Assist Windows Agent Vulnerability Allows Privilege Escalation

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: cloud, cyber, flaw, service, vulnerability, windows

A critical local privilege escalation vulnerability in the JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows agent allows any low-privileged user on a Windows system to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges or crash the machine. Tracked as CVE-2025-34352, the flaw affects JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows versions prior to 0.317.0 and has been rated High severity (CVSS v4.0: 8.5). JumpCloud is a widely used cloud-based Directory-as-a-Service and…
Jaguar Land Rover Confirms August Cyberattack Led to Employee Data Theft

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: cyber, cyberattack, data, theft

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has officially confirmed that a major cyberattack in August resulted in the theft of sensitive personal data belonging to current and former employees. This disclosure marks the luxury automaker’s first public admission regarding the full scope of the incident, following a month-long production shutdown that cost the company hundreds of millions…
Chrome Extension with 6M+ Users Found Collecting AI Chatbot Inputs

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: ai, browser, chatgpt, chrome, cyber, data, exploit, microsoft, privacy, risk, vpn

A popular browser extension promoted as a free and secure VPN has been discovered secretly capturing user conversations across multiple AI chatbot platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot raising fresh concerns over privacy and data exploitation in the age of generative AI. Researchers using the Wings agentic”‘AI risk engine uncovered that Urban VPN…
JumpCloud Remote Assist Windows Agent Vulnerability Allows Privilege Escalation

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: cloud, cyber, flaw, service, vulnerability, windows

A critical local privilege escalation vulnerability in the JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows agent allows any low-privileged user on a Windows system to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges or crash the machine. Tracked as CVE-2025-34352, the flaw affects JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows versions prior to 0.317.0 and has been rated High severity (CVSS v4.0: 8.5). JumpCloud is a widely used cloud-based Directory-as-a-Service and…
How to Sign a Windows App with Electron Builder?

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: windows

You’ve spent weeks, maybe months, crafting your dream Electron app. The UI looks clean, the features work flawlessly, and you finally hit that Build button. Excited, you send the installer to your friend for testing. You’re expecting a “Wow, this is awesome!” Instead, you get: Windows protected your PC. Unknown Publisher.” That bright blue SmartScreen”¦…
When Love Becomes a Shadow: The Inner Journey After Parental Alienation

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: awareness, data, identity, malicious

There’s a strange thing that happens when a person you once knew as your child seems, over years, to forget the sound of your voice, the feel of your laugh, or the way your presence once grounded them. It isnt just loss – it’s an internal inversion: your love becomes a shadow. Something haunting, familiar,…
The Burnout Nobody Talks About: When “Always-On” Leadership Becomes a Liability

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: business, cybersecurity, data, incident response, international, resilience, risk, risk-management, skills, threat

In cybersecurity, being “always on” is often treated like a badge of honor. We celebrate the leaders who respond at all hours, who jump into every incident, who never seem to unplug. Availability gets confused with commitment. Urgency gets mistaken for effectiveness. And somewhere along the way, exhaustion becomes normalized”, if not quietly admired. But…
PornHub Confirms Premium User Data Exposure Linked to Mixpanel Breach

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: breach, data, data-breach, extortion, security-incident

PornHub is facing renewed scrutiny after confirming that some Premium users’ activity data was exposed following a security incident at a third-party analytics provider. The PornHub data breach disclosure comes as the platform faces increasing regulatory scrutiny in the United States and reported extortion attempts linked to the stolen data. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump…
French Interior Minister says hackers breached its email servers

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: attack, cyberattack, email, hacker, threat

The French interior minister confirmed that a cyberattack breached the Interior Ministry, compromising its email servers. The French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced on Friday that threat actors compromised email servers at the Ministry of the Interior. The attack was detected overnight between December 11 and 12, and according to the French interior minister, attackers…
The messy data trails of telehealth are becoming a security nightmare

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: data

In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Bachand, CIO/CISO at Ro, discusses how telehealth reshapes the flow of patient data and what that means for security. He explains … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/16/scott-bachand-ro-telehealth-security/
AI might be the answer for better phishing resilience

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: ai, phishing, resilience, training

Phishing is still a go-to tactic for attackers, which is why even small gains in user training are worth noticing. A recent research project from the University of Bari looked … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/16/ai-generated-phishing-training-study/
Google to Shut Down Dark Web Monitoring Tool in February 2026

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: breach, dark-web, google, monitoring, tool

Google has announced that it’s discontinuing its dark web report tool in February 2026, less than two years after it was launched as a way for users to monitor if their personal information is found on the dark web.To that end, scans for new dark web breaches will be stopped on January 15, 2026, and…
SAP Patchday Dezember 2025 – Drei kritische Sicherheitslücken zum letzten SAP-Patchday 2025

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: sap

First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/sap-patchday-dezember-2025-updates-a-de8d1d449d90f0b75141391e402251b4/
French Interior Minister says hackers breached its email servers

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: attack, cyberattack, email, hacker, threat

The French interior minister confirmed that a cyberattack breached the Interior Ministry, compromising its email servers. The French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced on Friday that threat actors compromised email servers at the Ministry of the Interior. The attack was detected overnight between December 11 and 12, and according to the French interior minister, attackers…
Bundestag lahmgelegt: IT-Ausfall während Selenskyj-Besuch in Berlin

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: infrastructure

Während des Besuchs von Wolodymyr Selenskyj in Berlin ist am Montag die IT-Infrastruktur des Bundestags zusammengebrochen. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/bundestag-lahmgelegt-it-ausfall-waehrend-selenskyj-besuch-in-berlin-2512-203300.html
No, SoundCloud hasn’t started tuning out VPNs. It’s mopping up after a cyberattack

Dec 16, 2025 7:19 AM

Tags: cyberattack, data, data-breach

Bum note for 20 percent of users whose data leaked First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/soundcloud_cyberattack_data_leak/
Product showcase: GlassWire mobile firewall for Android

Dec 16, 2025 7:19 AM

Tags: android, firewall, Internet, mobile, monitoring, network, windows

GlassWire is a free network monitoring and security application for Windows and Android. It lets you see how your system communicates over the internet and local network. The … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/16/product-showcase-glasswire-firewall-android/
Passwordless is finally happening, and users barely notice

Dec 16, 2025 7:19 AM

Tags: authentication, control, okta

Security teams know the strain that comes from tightening authentication controls while keeping users productive. A new report from Okta suggests this strain is easing. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/16/okta-mfa-security-shift-report/
No, SoundCloud hasn’t started tuning out VPNs. It’s mopping up after a cyberattack

Dec 16, 2025 7:19 AM

Tags: cyberattack, data, data-breach

Bum note for 20 percent of users whose data leaked First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/soundcloud_cyberattack_data_leak/
The WhatsApp takeover scam that doesn’t need your password

Dec 16, 2025 6:19 AM

Tags: password, scam