PRC State-Sponsored Actors Use BRICKSTORM Malware Across Public Sector and Information Technology Systems

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is aware of ongoing intrusions by People’s Republic of China PRC state-sponsored cyber actors using BRICKSTORM malware for long-term persistence on victim systems. BRICKSTORM is a sophisticated backdoor for VMware vSphere1,2 and Windows...

Hesperus Is Phosphorus: Mapping Threat Actor Naming Taxonomies at Scale

This paper studies the problem of Threat Actor TA naming convention inconsistency across leading Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI vendors. The current decentralized and proprietary nomenclature creates confusion and significant obstacles for researchers, including difficulties in integrating and...

Salesforce Flags Unauthorized Data Access via Gainsight-Linked OAuth Activity

Salesforce has warned of detected "unusual activity" related to Gainsight-published applications connected to the platform. "Our investigation indicates this activity may have enabled unauthorized access to certain customers' Salesforce data through the app's connection," the company said in an...

SafePay Ransomware: TTPs and Defense Strategies

When a threat actor disables your security software and starts deleting your backups, you’re already in the middle of a crisis. The operators behind SafePay ransomware are known for these exact tactics, deliberately sabotaging your ability to respond and recover. Catching an attack like this earl...

Today’s threat landscape demands a proactive OT security strategy

Today’s threat landscape demands a proactive OT security strategy By John Fokker and Mo Cashman · November 18, 2025 Overview: The operational technology OT security landscape is undergoing rapid transformation, marked by an escalation in advanced threats. As reported in Trellix’s November...

North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage malicious payloads. "The threat actors have recently resorted to utilizing JSON storage services like JSON Keeper, JSONsilo, and npoint.io to host...

Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic's AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign

State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence AI technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a "highly sophisticated espionage campaign" in mid-September 2025. "The attackers used AI's 'agentic' capabilities to an unprecedented degre...

Attackers accelerate, adapt, and automate: Rapid7’s Q3 2025 Threat Landscape Report

The Q3 2025 Threat Landscape Report, authored by the Rapid7 Labs team, paints a clear picture of an environment where attackers are moving faster, working smarter, and using artificial intelligence to stay ahead of defenders. The findings reveal a threat landscape defined by speed, coordination,...

On Hacking Back

Former DoJ attorney John Carlin writes about hackback, which he defines thus: "A hack back is a type of cyber response that incorporates a counterattack designed to proactively engage with, disable, or collect evidence about an attacker. Although hack backs can take on various forms, they are--­b...

ASD Warns of Ongoing BADCANDY Attacks Exploiting Cisco IOS XE Vulnerability

The Australian Signals Directorate ASD has issued a bulletin about ongoing cyber attacks targeting unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country with a previously undocumented implant known as BADCANDY. The activity, per the intelligence agency, involves the exploitation of CVE-2023-20198 CVSS...

CVE-2025-57109

Kitware VTK Visualization Toolkit 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Heap Use-After-Free in vtkGLTFImporter::ImportActors. When processing GLTF files with invalid scene node references, the application accesses string members of mesh objects that have been previously freed during actor import operations...

CVE-2025-57109

Kitware VTK Visualization Toolkit 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Heap Use-After-Free in vtkGLTFImporter::ImportActors. When processing GLTF files with invalid scene node references, the application accesses string members of mesh objects that have been previously freed during actor import operations...

The 5 generative AI security threats you need to know about detailed in new e-book

Generative AI is reshaping the way security teams operate—accelerating threat detection, automating workflows, and enabling scale. But as defenders embrace AI to strengthen their posture, cyberattackers are doing the same to evolve faster than traditional defenses can adapt. Microsoft’s 2025...

Defend Smarter, Not Harder: The Power of Curated Vulnerability Intelligence

Let’s be honest, we as an industry spend far too long responding to issues that simply don’t matter. Chasing down false positives, reviewing threat intelligence reports that bear no relation to our sector, and more recently reviewing vulnerability advisories of systems not deployed within the...

CVE-2025-11145

Observable Discrepancy, Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor, Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in CBK Soft Software Hardware Electronic Computer Systems Industry and Trade Inc. EnVision allows Account Footprinting. This issue...

CVE-2025-11145 User Enumeration in CBK Soft's enVision

Observable Discrepancy, Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor, Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in CBK Soft Software Hardware Electronic Computer Systems Industry and Trade Inc. EnVision allows Account Footprinting. This issue...

CVE-2025-11145

CBK Soft EnVision (earlier than v250566) has a vulnerability described as an observable discrepancy that enables account footprinting, potentially exposing sensitive/private personal information to unauthorized actors. Affected product/version: EnVision prior to 250566. Underlying issue is exposu...

The CISO imperative: Building resilience in an era of accelerated cyberthreats

The latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 paints a vivid picture of a cyberthreat landscape in flux. The surge in financially motivated cyberattacks and the persistent risk of nation-state actors demand urgent attention. But for those of us in the Office of the Chief Information Security...

CVE-2025-11151

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor, Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere vulnerability in Beyaz Bilgisayar Software Design Industry and Trade Ltd. Co. CityPLus allows Detect Unpublicized Web Pages.This issue affects CityPLus: before...

Chinese Threat Actors Exploit ToolShell SharePoint Flaw Weeks After Microsoft's July Patch

Threat actors with ties to China exploited the ToolShell security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was publicly disclosed and patched in July 2025. Also targeted were government departments in an African country, as well as...