Tag: infrastructure
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New GlassWorm Threat Uses Stealthy Code to Target OpenVSX Extensions
GlassWorm is the world’s first self-propagating worm targeting VS Code extensions in the OpenVSX marketplace, unleashing invisible malicious payloads and decentralized command infrastructure that make it nearly impossible to detect or dismantle. First identified on October 17, 2025, GlassWorm hijacks developer machines via invisible Unicode code, harvests credentials, drains cryptocurrency wallets, and transforms infected systems…
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Pakistani Cyber Actors Impersonating ‘NIC eEmail Services’ to Target Indian Government
Tags: attack, credentials, cyber, email, government, group, india, infrastructure, phishing, service, spear-phishing, threatPakistan-based advanced persistent threat group APT36, also known as TransparentTribe, is actively targeting Indian government entities with a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign using email lures themed as “NIC eEmail Services.” This campaign leverages lookalike domains and weaponized infrastructure to steal credentials and enable long-term espionage. The attack begins with email messages that convincingly mimic official notifications…
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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Windows SMB Vulnerability
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, threat, vulnerability, windowsThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical Microsoft Windows Server Message Block (SMB) vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning that threat actors are actively exploiting the security flaw in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-33073, affects the Windows SMB Client and could allow attackers to escalate privileges on…
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Pakistani Cyber Actors Impersonating ‘NIC eEmail Services’ to Target Indian Government
Tags: attack, credentials, cyber, email, government, group, india, infrastructure, phishing, service, spear-phishing, threatPakistan-based advanced persistent threat group APT36, also known as TransparentTribe, is actively targeting Indian government entities with a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign using email lures themed as “NIC eEmail Services.” This campaign leverages lookalike domains and weaponized infrastructure to steal credentials and enable long-term espionage. The attack begins with email messages that convincingly mimic official notifications…
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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Windows SMB Vulnerability
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, threat, vulnerability, windowsThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical Microsoft Windows Server Message Block (SMB) vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning that threat actors are actively exploiting the security flaw in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-33073, affects the Windows SMB Client and could allow attackers to escalate privileges on…
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Pakistani Cyber Actors Impersonating ‘NIC eEmail Services’ to Target Indian Government
Tags: attack, credentials, cyber, email, government, group, india, infrastructure, phishing, service, spear-phishing, threatPakistan-based advanced persistent threat group APT36, also known as TransparentTribe, is actively targeting Indian government entities with a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign using email lures themed as “NIC eEmail Services.” This campaign leverages lookalike domains and weaponized infrastructure to steal credentials and enable long-term espionage. The attack begins with email messages that convincingly mimic official notifications…
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Salt Typhoon Targets European Telecom
Attack Began With Citrix NetScaler Gateway Compromise, Darktrace Said. The Chinese cyberespionage hackers commonly tracked as Salt Typhoon haven’t stopped their campaign against global telecoms, says managed threat detection firm Darktrace. The group has made telecoms and other digital infrastructure a primary target. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/salt-typhoon-targets-european-telecom-a-29766
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Five New Exploited Bugs Land in CISA’s Catalog, Oracle and Microsoft Among Targets
Tags: business, cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, oracle, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, officially confirming a recently disclosed vulnerability impacting Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) has been weaponized in real-world attacks.The security defect in question is CVE-2025-61884 (CVSS score: 7.5), which has been described as a First seen…
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France’s Atos eyes UK public sector with investment in secure UK infrastructure
French IT services supplier invests in highly secure and accredited UK-based infrastructure First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366632825/Frances-Atos-eyes-UK-public-sector-with-investment-in-secure-UK-infrastructure
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Unternehmen erleben KI-Momentum, doch Lücken bei Technologie und Fachkräften prägen die nächste Phase
Kyndryl hat seinen zweiten jährlichen Readiness-Report veröffentlicht. 3.700 Führungskräfte aus 21 Ländern wurden dafür befragt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen: Unternehmen erleben derzeit eine Phase großer Dynamik und Selbstreflexion. Sie verzeichnen wachsende Erträge aus ihren KI-Investitionen, stehen aber gleichzeitig unter wachsendem Druck, ihre Infrastruktur zu modernisieren, Innovationen zu skalieren, Mitarbeitende weiterzubilden und Risiken in einem immer komplexeren regulatorischen…
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131 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking WhatsApp Web for Massive Spam Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension for Google Chrome to spam Brazilian users at scale.The 131 spamware extensions share the same codebase, design patterns, and infrastructure, according to supply chain security company Socket. The browser add-ons collectively have about 20,905 active users.” First…
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Salt Typhoon Uses Citrix Flaw in Global Cyber-Attack
A cyber intrusion by China-linked group Salt Typhoon has been observed targeting global infrastructure via DLL sideloading First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/salt-typhoon-citrix-flaw-cyber/
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Ensuring Safety with Secrets Vaulting
Tags: infrastructureHow Secure are Your Non-Human Identities? Have you ever wondered about the security implications of non-human identities (NHIs) in your organization’s ecosystem? With the increasing complexity of digital infrastructures, safeguarding NHIs involves more than just implementing standard security practices. It is about creating a robust and adaptable environment for seamless operations across sectors such as……
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Network security devices endanger orgs with ’90s era flaws
Tags: access, application-security, apt, authentication, breach, cisa, cisco, citrix, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, dos, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, firmware, flaw, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, injection, ivanti, jobs, linux, mitigation, mobile, network, open-source, penetration-testing, programming, regulation, remote-code-execution, reverse-engineering, risk, risk-management, router, service, software, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day2024 networking and security device zero-day flaws Product CVE Flaw type CVSS Check Point Quantum Security Gateways and CloudGuard Network Security CVE-2024-24919 Path traversal leading to information disclosure 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20359 Arbitrary code execution 6.6 (Medium) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20353 Denial of service 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance …
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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, china, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, flaw, framework, government, group, hacker, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Intruder, korea, microsoft, monitoring, network, ransomware, reverse-engineering, risk, russia, supply-chain, tactics, technology, theft, threat, vulnerability, zero-day, zero-trustChina or Russia? Conflicting attribution: Microsoft attributed the broader wave of SharePoint exploitations to three Chinese-linked groups: Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and a third actor it tracks as Storm-2603. The company said the attackers were preparing to deploy Warlock ransomware across affected systems.However, the source familiar with the Kansas City incident tells CSO that a…
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Are Your Cloud Identities Fully Protected?
How Can We Bridge the Gap Between Security and R&D Teams for Effective Cloud Identity Protection? Where organizations across various sectors increasingly rely on cloud infrastructure, understanding and managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is paramount. But what exactly are NHIs, and how do they play into the broader strategy of cybersecurity and identity protection? With machine……
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Authorities Shut Down Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Seize 40,000 SIM Cards
Law enforcement authorities across Europe have dismantled a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service operation that enabled criminals to commit widespread fraud and other serious offenses across the continent. The coordinated action, codenamed ‘SIMCARTEL’, resulted in seven arrests, the seizure of over 40,000 active SIM cards, and the takedown of infrastructure that facilitated crimes causing millions of euros in…
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Nordkorea nutzt EtherHiding: Staatliche Malware versteckt sich in Blockchains
Der Einsatz der EtherHiding-Technik durch UNC5342 bietet eine äußerst widerstandsfähige Methode, um Angriffe fortzusetzen und Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen. Sie erschwert es erheblich, bösartige Aktivitäten zu blockieren oder die Infrastruktur der Angreifer stillzulegen. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/nordkorea-nutzt-etherhiding-staatliche-malware-versteckt-sich-in-blockchains/a42401/
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Government considered destroying its data hub after decade-long intrusion
Tags: access, backdoor, breach, china, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, government, group, Hardware, incident response, infrastructure, network, risk, spy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityBridewell, a supplier to the UK government critical network infrastructure, endorsed the severity of this approach. He said, “it’s like when a device is compromised, the only way to truly be sure there are no remnants, or unidentified backdoors is to restore the asset to a known good state. In the physical realm, in particular…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: F5 Breach Prompts Urgent U.S. Gov’t Warning, as OpenAI Details Disrupted ChatGPT Abuses
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, backdoor, breach, business, chatgpt, china, cisa, cloud, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, framework, fraud, governance, government, group, hacker, incident, infrastructure, Internet, iran, law, LLM, malicious, malware, mitigation, monitoring, network, openai, organized, phishing, privacy, resilience, risk, russia, scam, security-incident, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, update, vulnerabilityF5’s breach triggers a CISA emergency directive, as Tenable calls it “a five-alarm fire” that requires urgent action. Meanwhile, OpenAI details how attackers try to misuse ChatGPT. Plus, boards are increasing AI and cyber disclosures. And much more! Key takeaways A critical breach at cybersecurity firm F5, attributed to a nation-state, has triggered an urgent…
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AI Agents Transform Enterprise Application Development
Why DevOps, Infrastructure Must Evolve to Manage AI-Accelerated Development. A 2025 DORA report states that AI adoption improves software delivery throughput but increases delivery instability, suggesting development teams are adapting for speed while their underlying systems lag behind. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/ai-agents-transform-enterprise-application-development-a-29751
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TDL 007 – Cyber Warriors Digital Shadows: Insights from Canada’s Cybersecurity Leader
Tags: ai, awareness, backup, breach, browser, business, cio, ciso, communications, conference, control, corporate, country, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, dns, email, encryption, finance, government, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, leak, linux, malicious, mfa, mitigation, network, organized, phone, privacy, ransom, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, router, service, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsSummary In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop interviews Sami Khoury, the Senior Official for Cybersecurity for the Government of Canada. With a career spanning 33 years at the Communication Security Establishment (CSE), Khoury shares how a coincidental job application blossomed into a lifelong passion for national security. Khoury emphasizes that modern…
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Critical AEM Vulnerability (CVE-2025-54253) Actively Exploited, Says CISA
A new vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms has been confirmed as actively exploited in the wild, prompting the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to add it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-54253, affects Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) and was…
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Critical AEM Vulnerability (CVE-2025-54253) Actively Exploited, Says CISA
A new vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms has been confirmed as actively exploited in the wild, prompting the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to add it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-54253, affects Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) and was…
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Critical AEM Vulnerability (CVE-2025-54253) Actively Exploited, Says CISA
A new vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms has been confirmed as actively exploited in the wild, prompting the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to add it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-54253, affects Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) and was…
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CISOs face quantum leap in prioritizing quantum resilience
Tags: apple, attack, ciso, cloud, computer, computing, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, nist, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityState of migration: Encryption underpins the security of everything from healthcare records to government data and e-commerce transactions.But just 8.5% of SSH servers currently support quantum-safe encryption.TLS 1.3 adoption, currently at 19%, also trails older, quantum-vulnerable versions, according to a recent study by Forescout.Other experts paint a more optimistic picture of PQC deployment since NIST…
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CISOs face quantum leap in prioritizing quantum resilience
Tags: apple, attack, ciso, cloud, computer, computing, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, nist, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityState of migration: Encryption underpins the security of everything from healthcare records to government data and e-commerce transactions.But just 8.5% of SSH servers currently support quantum-safe encryption.TLS 1.3 adoption, currently at 19%, also trails older, quantum-vulnerable versions, according to a recent study by Forescout.Other experts paint a more optimistic picture of PQC deployment since NIST…
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CISOs face quantum leap in prioritizing quantum resilience
Tags: apple, attack, ciso, cloud, computer, computing, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, nist, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityState of migration: Encryption underpins the security of everything from healthcare records to government data and e-commerce transactions.But just 8.5% of SSH servers currently support quantum-safe encryption.TLS 1.3 adoption, currently at 19%, also trails older, quantum-vulnerable versions, according to a recent study by Forescout.Other experts paint a more optimistic picture of PQC deployment since NIST…
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APT28 Deploys BeardShell and Covenant Modules via Weaponized Office Documents
Security researchers at Sekoia.io have uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack campaign orchestrated by APT28, the notorious Russian state-sponsored threat actor, targeting Ukrainian military personnel with weaponized Office documents that deliver advanced malware frameworks including BeardShell and Covenant modules. The operation represents a significant evolution in APT28’s tactics, leveraging legitimate cloud infrastructure and novel obfuscation techniques to…
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Over 269,000 F5 Devices Found Exposed Online After Massive Breach
A recent breach of F5 Networks’ infrastructure has left more than 269,000 devices exposed and vulnerable to attack. Security researchers first detected unusual activity on F5’s management portal, prompting the company to issue an alert and patch critical vulnerabilities. However, despite swift action, a daily snapshot from Shadowserver shows that nearly 269,000 unique IP addresses…