Tag: infrastructure
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Iran-linked actors use Telegram as C2 in malware attacks on dissidents
Iran-linked actors use Telegram as C2 to spread malware targeting dissidents and journalists, enabling surveillance and data theft. The FBI warns that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) runs cyber campaigns using Telegram as a command-and-control infrastructure to deliver malware. Threat actors target Iranian dissidents, journalists, and opposition groups worldwide. Once deployed, the malware…
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CISA Warns of Craft CMS Code Injection Flaw Exploited in Active Attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, injection, kev, mitigation, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has officially added a critical vulnerability affecting Craft CMS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Tracked as CVE-2025-32432, this code injection flaw is currently being exploited in active attacks across the wild. Organizations utilizing this content management system are urged to apply mitigations immediately to prevent potential…
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NIST updates its DNS security guidance for the first time in over a decade
DNS infrastructure underpins nearly every network connection an organization makes, yet security configurations for it have gone largely unrevised at the federal guidance … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/23/nist-dns-security-guide-sp-800-81r3/
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CISA Issues Warning on Apple Vulnerabilities Exploited Through DarkSword iOS Chain
Tags: advisory, apple, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent advisory regarding three critical security flaws affecting the Apple ecosystem. Officially added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on March 20, 2026, these bugs are actively being abused in the wild. Attackers are stringing these specific flaws together to deploy a highly sophisticated…
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U.S. CISA adds Apple, Laravel Livewire and Craft CMS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple, Laravel Livewire and Craft CMS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Apple, Laravel Livewire and Craft CMS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CISA added the three…
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Cyberkriminelle nehmen vermehrt kritische Infrastrukturen ins Visier
Angriffe auf kritische Infrastruktur erfolgen immer häufiger über cyberphysische Systeme Vier von fünf Angriffe (82 %) erfolgen über exponierte, mit dem Internet verbundenen Ressourcen Attacken größtenteils durch politische oder gesellschaftliche Ziele motiviert Cyberphysische Systeme (CPS) werden mehr und mehr zu einem bevorzugten Ziel opportunistischer Angreifer. Dabei sind viele der Attacken von geopolitischen Ereignissen beeinflusst… First…
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FBI Warns Russian Hackers Target Signal, WhatsApp in Mass Phishing Attacks
Tags: attack, control, cybersecurity, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, phishing, russia, service, threatThreat actors affiliated with Russian Intelligence Services are conducting phishing campaigns to compromise commercial messaging applications (CMAs) like WhatsApp and Signal to seize control of accounts belonging to individuals with high intelligence value, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday.”The campaign First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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CISA Flags Apple, Craft CMS, Laravel Bugs in KEV, Orders Patching by April 3, 2026
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added five security flaws impacting Apple, Craft CMS, and Laravel Livewire to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, urging federal agencies to patch them by April 3, 2026.The vulnerabilities that have come under exploitation are listed below -CVE-2025-31277 (CVSS score: 8.8) – A vulnerability in…
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FBI and CISA Flag Russian Cyber Operations Targeting Select Individuals via Signal
Tags: advisory, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, encryption, infrastructure, intelligence, phishing, russia, serviceThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have recently released a joint cybersecurity advisory regarding a widespread phishing campaign. The alert warns that Russian Intelligence Services are actively targeting users of encrypted messaging applications, primarily Signal. The attackers are bypassing the platform’s robust end-to-end encryption by hijacking user…
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TDL 018 – How To Think, Not What To Think – Mitch Prior
Tags: access, ai, apple, attack, backup, blockchain, business, cctv, china, ciso, cloud, computer, conference, control, credentials, cvss, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, finance, firmware, google, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iot, jobs, law, mail, malware, military, network, phone, privacy, resilience, risk, router, software, strategy, switch, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, wifi, zero-trustThe Human Algorithm in a Zero-Trust World In the latest episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with cybersecurity expert Mitch Prior to discuss the intersection of high-tech security and human intuition. From their first meeting in 2018″, the early days of Zero Trust”, the duo explores why the “why” behind technical…
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Aisuru, KimWolf Botnets Disrupted in International Operation
No Arrests, But Virtual Servers, IP Addresses Seized and Residencies Searched. U.S. authorities seized KimWolf – the attack infrastructure responsible for the largest distributed denial of service attack yet recorded in an international police operation that swept up servers underpinning four botnets. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/aisuru-kimwolf-botnets-disrupted-in-international-operation-a-31105
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CISA Recommends Privileged Access Controls for Endpoint Management After Stryker Incident
Tags: access, attack, cisa, control, credentials, cybersecurity, endpoint, infrastructure, microsoftThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a rare and urgent advisory following a March 11, 2026 cyberattack that disrupted the Microsoft environment of Stryker Corporation. Reports indicate the attackers gained access through a compromised Intune administrator account, created a new global admin, and used it to wipe managed devices. At its core, this appears to be a credential-driven attack and part of……
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DOJ confirms seizure of domains linked to Iran-backed threat actor
A group connected to Iranian intelligence used the same infrastructure to claim credit for the hack of medical technology firm Stryker.; First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/doj-seizure-domains-iran-threat-actor/815306/
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CISA orders feds to patch max-severity Cisco flaw by Sunday
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to patch a maximum-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-20131, in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) by Sunday, March 22. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-patch-max-severity-cisco-flaw-by-sunday/
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US seizes domains and infrastructure used in sprawling botnet campaigns
The Justice Department said on Thursday evening that the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid and Mossad botnets were used to target victims with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that overloaded websites and made them unreachable. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/us-seizes-botnet-infrastructure-four-large-networks
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Gefälschte Schutz-App für Krypto-Wallets stiehlt Nutzerdaten
Okta Threat Intelligence hat eine gefährliche Kryptoscam-Kampagne namens <> aufgedeckt und ihre Infrastruktur zerschlagen. Die als Browser-Erweiterung beworbene Anwendung versprach Nutzern, ihre Krypto-Wallet vor Phishing und Betrug zu schützen in Wirklichkeit war sie jedoch ein Trojaner, der gezielt Wallet-Adressen und sensible Daten von Binance, Coinbase, Metamask, Opensea, Phantom und Uniswap abgriff. Sogar Nutzer von […]…
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DDoS-Attacken: Schlag gegen internationale Cyberkriminelle
Tags: android, botnet, cyberattack, cybercrime, ddos, germany, hacker, infrastructure, router, service, usaDDos bleibt ein Evergreen unter den Security-Bedrohungen. Karsten Kunert mit ChatGPTIn einem großangelegten Schlag gegen ein internationales Hacker-Netzwerk haben Sicherheitsbehörden in Nordamerika und Deutschland die beiden weltgrößten Botnetze zerschlagen. Die Infrastruktur der Kriminellen war vor allem für sogenannte Denial-of-Services-Attacken (DDoS), verwendet worden, teilte das Bundeskriminalamt mit. Dabei versuchen die Cyberkriminellen, die Webseiten und Apps ihrer…
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KI-Transformation gefährdet: APIs entwickeln sich zur primären Angriffsfläche
Cyberkriminelle folgen den KI-Investitionen von Unternehmen und nutzen APIs als schnellsten Weg zu Skalierung, Disruption und Profit. Akamai hat seinen SOTI-Bericht (State of the Internet) »Anwendungen, APIs und DDoS 2026« veröffentlicht, der einen entscheidenden Wandel in der Bedrohungslandschaft aufzeigt [1]. Angreifer industrialisieren ihre Methoden und zielen auf die Infrastruktur ab, die das Geschäftswachstum und… First…
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KI-Transformation gefährdet: APIs entwickeln sich zur primären Angriffsfläche
Cyberkriminelle folgen den KI-Investitionen von Unternehmen und nutzen APIs als schnellsten Weg zu Skalierung, Disruption und Profit. Akamai hat seinen SOTI-Bericht (State of the Internet) »Anwendungen, APIs und DDoS 2026« veröffentlicht, der einen entscheidenden Wandel in der Bedrohungslandschaft aufzeigt [1]. Angreifer industrialisieren ihre Methoden und zielen auf die Infrastruktur ab, die das Geschäftswachstum und… First…
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Global law enforcement operation targets AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid botnet operators
DoJ disrupted IoT botnets’ C2 infrastructure with global partners, targeting operators behind AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and others. The U.S. DoJ disrupted command-and-control infrastructure used by several IoT botnets, including AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad. The operation involved authorities from Canada and Germany, along with major tech companies, to target botnet operators and weaken their global…
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International joint action disrupts world’s largest DDoS botnets
Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have taken down Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets to infect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/aisuru-kimwolf-jackskid-and-mossad-botnets-disrupted-in-joint-action/
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CISA Warns Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center 0-Day Is Being Exploited in Ransomware Attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, cisco, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, exploit, firewall, flaw, infrastructure, ransomware, vulnerability, zero-dayThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an urgent warning regarding a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting heavily relied-upon Cisco security products. Tracked officially as CVE-2026-20131, this severe flaw is actively being exploited by cybercriminals in targeted ransomware campaigns. Organizations relying on Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Cisco Security Cloud Control must take immediate…
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CISA Warns Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center 0-Day Is Being Exploited in Ransomware Attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, cisco, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, exploit, firewall, flaw, infrastructure, ransomware, vulnerability, zero-dayThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an urgent warning regarding a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting heavily relied-upon Cisco security products. Tracked officially as CVE-2026-20131, this severe flaw is actively being exploited by cybercriminals in targeted ransomware campaigns. Organizations relying on Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Cisco Security Cloud Control must take immediate…
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The espionage reality: Your infrastructure is already in the collection path
Tags: access, apt, attack, authentication, breach, ciso, cloud, country, cyber, data, detection, espionage, exploit, governance, government, group, identity, infrastructure, injection, insurance, intelligence, network, risk, risk-assessment, service, spyware, theft, threat, toolCommercial spyware as an intelligence channel: Criminal operators deploying Predator, a spyware suite sold by the sanctioned Intellexa consortium, have been documented across more than a dozen countries. US sanctions haven’t slowed them down an iota. Their targets are not random: journalists, activists, politicians, human”‘rights defenders, government employees and contractors, and other high”‘value individuals. Why?…
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The espionage reality: Your infrastructure is already in the collection path
Tags: access, apt, attack, authentication, breach, ciso, cloud, country, cyber, data, detection, espionage, exploit, governance, government, group, identity, infrastructure, injection, insurance, intelligence, network, risk, risk-assessment, service, spyware, theft, threat, toolCommercial spyware as an intelligence channel: Criminal operators deploying Predator, a spyware suite sold by the sanctioned Intellexa consortium, have been documented across more than a dozen countries. US sanctions haven’t slowed them down an iota. Their targets are not random: journalists, activists, politicians, human”‘rights defenders, government employees and contractors, and other high”‘value individuals. Why?…
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Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets — named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad — are responsible for…
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DoJ Disrupts 3 Million-Device IoT Botnets Behind Record 31.4 Tbps Global DDoS Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the disruption of command-and-control (C2) infrastructure used by several Internet of Things (IoT) botnets like AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad as part of a court-authorized law enforcement operation.The effort also saw authorities from Canada and Germany targeting the operators behind these botnets, with a number of…
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Authorities Dismantle IoT Botnet Linked to Record-Shattering 30 Tbps DDoS Campaigns
A massive international law enforcement operation has successfully dismantled the command and control infrastructure behind four highly destructive Internet of Things (IoT) botnets. These sprawling networks were responsible for launching record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against global targets, with some traffic floods reaching an astonishing 30 Terabits per second (Tbps). The coordinated strike…
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Authorities Dismantle IoT Botnet Linked to Record-Shattering 30 Tbps DDoS Campaigns
A massive international law enforcement operation has successfully dismantled the command and control infrastructure behind four highly destructive Internet of Things (IoT) botnets. These sprawling networks were responsible for launching record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against global targets, with some traffic floods reaching an astonishing 30 Terabits per second (Tbps). The coordinated strike…
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…