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Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. In the words of Game Changer host Sam Reich, "And your host, me! I've been here the whole time!" Okay, maybe it's not the whole time, but for the past three months, I've been settling into my role here at Cisco Talos. Editing blogs,...

New Windows RAT Evades Detection for Weeks Using Corrupted DOS and PE Headers

Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off an unusual cyber attack that leveraged malware with corrupted DOS and PE headers, according to new findings from Fortinet. The DOS Disk Operating System and PE Portable Executable headers are essential parts of a Windows PE file, providing...

CISO Spotlight: Mike Wilkes on Building Resilience in an Evolving Threat Landscape

Mike Wilkes has had a career many cybersecurity professionals could only dream of. An adjunct professor, former CISO of Marvel and MLS, member of the World Economic Forum, drummer, and board member at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, his interests and achievements are as eclectic as they are...

Consilium Safety CS5000 Fire Panel (Update A)

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain high-level access to and remotely operate the device, potentially putting it into a non-functional state. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk...

Santesoft Sante DICOM Viewer Pro

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to disclose information or execute arbitrary code. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability, such as: Minimize network...

Instantel Micromate (Update A)

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to access the device's configuration port and execute commands. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability,...

OneDrive File Picker Flaw Gives Apps Full Access to User Drives

A recent investigation by cybersecurity researchers at Oasis Security has revealed a data overreach in how Microsoft’s OneDrive…...

251 Amazon-Hosted IPs Used in Exploit Scan Targeting ColdFusion, Struts, and Elasticsearch

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a coordinated cloud-based scanning activity that targeted 75 distinct "exposure points" earlier this month. The activity, observed by GreyNoise on May 8, 2025, involved as many as 251 malicious IP addresses that are all geolocated to Japan and...

New Phishing Campaign Uses DBatLoader to Drop Remcos RAT: What Analysts Need to Know

Disclosure: This article was provided by ANY.RUN. The information and analysis presented are based on their research and findings...

GHSA-V8WJ-F5C7-PVXF Strapi allows Server-Side Request Forgery in Webhook function

Description In Strapi latest version, at function Settings - Webhooks, the application allows us to input a URL in order to create a Webook connection. However, we can input into this field the local domains such as localhost, 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0,.... in order to make the Application fetching into...

Adidas Confirms Cyber Attack, Customer Data Stolen

Adidas confirms cyber attack compromising customer data, joining other major retailers targeted by advanced threats and rising cybersecurity risks...

Why Quiet Expertise No Longer Wins Cybersecurity Clients

There's a graveyard of brilliant cybersecurity companies that no one has ever heard of. These firms had incredible…...

Johnson Controls iSTAR Configuration Utility (ICU) tool

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to gain access to memory leaked from the ICU. This utility is only used to configure products that are no longer manufactured or supported. ICU is not used to configure the iSTAR Ultra and the current iSTAR G2...

openSUSE Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2025:01701-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Strengthening Cybersecurity Resilience in Agriculture through Educational Interventions: a Case Study of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

The increasing digitization of agricultural operations has introduced new cybersecurity challenges for the farming community. This paper introduces an educational intervention called Cybersecurity Improvement Initiative for Agriculture CIIA, which aims to strengthen cybersecurity awareness and...

Co-Evolutionary Dynamics of Attack and Defence in Cybersecurity

In the evolving digital landscape, it is crucial to study the dynamics of cyberattacks and defences. This study uses an Evolutionary Game Theory EGT framework to investigate the evolutionary dynamics of attacks and defences in cyberspace. We develop a two-population asymmetric game between attack...

Hackers Use TikTok Videos to Distribute Vidar and StealC Malware via ClickFix Technique

The malware known as Latrodectus has become the latest to embrace the widely-used social engineering technique called ClickFix as a distribution vector. "The ClickFix technique is particularly risky because it allows the malware to execute in memory rather than being written to disk," Expel said ...

Threats don’t wait, neither should you: Mastering Emergent Threat Response Validation

Cybersecurity is a team sport In cybersecurity, no one fights alone. Defending against modern threats requires seamless collaboration, real-time intelligence, and precision execution—just like a well-coordinated sports team. That’s why Rapid7 Labs and our Vector Command team work together to stay...

CVE-2024-32105

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in ELEXtensions ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts.This issue affects ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts: from n/a through 2.1.2...

CVE-2024-32369

SQL Injection vulnerability in HSC Cybersecurity HC Mailinspector 5.2.17-3 through 5.2.18 allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information via a crafted payload to the start and limit parameter in the mliWhiteList.php component...