Lazarus Group Uses Medusa Ransomware in Middle East and U.S. Healthcare Attacks

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group aka Diamond Sleet and Pompilus has been observed using Medusa ransomware in an attack targeting an unnamed entity in the Middle East, according to a new report by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team. Broadcom's threat intelligence division said it...

Google Ties Suspected Russian Actor to CANFAIL Malware Attacks on Ukrainian Orgs

A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations with malware known as CANFAIL. Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG described the hacking group as possibly affiliated with Russian intelligence services. The threat actor is assessed to have...

UAT-9921 Deploys VoidLink Malware to Target Technology and Financial Sectors

A previously unknown threat actor tracked as UAT-9921 has been observed leveraging a new modular framework called VoidLink in its campaigns targeting the technology and financial services sectors, according to findings from Cisco Talos. "This threat actor seems to have been active since 2019,...

North Korea-Linked UNC1069 Uses AI Lures to Attack Cryptocurrency Organizations

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as UNC1069 has been observed targeting the cryptocurrency sector to steal sensitive data from Windows and macOS systems with the ultimate goal of facilitating financial theft. "The intrusion relied on a social engineering scheme involving a compromised...

Poland Energy Sector Cyber Incident Highlights OT and ICS Security Gaps

The purpose of this Alert is to amplify Poland’s Computer Emergency Response Team CERT Polska’s Energy Sector Incident Report published on Jan. 30, 2026, and highlight key mitigations for Energy Sector stakeholders. In December 2025, a malicious cyber actors targeted and compromised operational...

Bloody Wolf Targets Uzbekistan, Russia Using NetSupport RAT in Spear-Phishing Campaign

The threat actor known as Bloody Wolf has been linked to a campaign targeting Uzbekistan and Russia to infect systems with a remote access trojan known as NetSupport RAT. Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky is tracking the activity under the moniker Stan Ghouls. The threat actor is known to be active...

U.S. Public Sector Under Siege

Discover why Government and Education must prioritize Cyber Risk Management...

Stan Ghouls targeting Russia and Uzbekistan with NetSupport RAT

Introduction Stan Ghouls also known as Bloody Wolf is an cybercriminal group that has been launching targeted attacks against organizations in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan since at least 2023. These attackers primarily have their sights set on the manufacturing, finance, and IT...

CERT.pl Energy Sector Incident 29 December

This is the official report from CERT.pl on the coordinated attacks against Poland's energy sector. These events affected both information systems IT and physical industrial equipment OT, which is rarely observed in attacks reported publicly to date...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: In blkstacklimits, we check that the t-chunksectors value is a multiple of the t-physicalblocksize value. However, by determining the chunksectors value in bytes, it is possible to overflow the unsigned int variable that stores...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: inftlcore: Error checking for inftlreadoob has been added. In INFTLfindwriteunit, the return value of inftlreadoob needs to be checked. A proper implementation can be found in INFTLdeleteblock. The status will be set to...

New DynoWiper Malware Used in Attempted Sandworm Attack on Polish Power Sector

The Russian nation-state hacking group known as Sandworm has been attributed to what has been described as the "largest cyber attack" targeting Poland's power system in the last week of December 2025. The attack was unsuccessful, the country's energy minister, Milosz Motyka, said last week. "The...

Microsoft Flags Multi-Stage AitM Phishing and BEC Attacks Targeting Energy Firms

Microsoft has warned of a multi‑stage adversary‑in‑the‑middle AitM phishing and business email compromise BEC campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector. "The campaign abused SharePoint file‑sharing services to deliver phishing payloads and relied on inbox rule creation to...

Why Asia’s Public Sector Is Rethinking Cyber Resilience

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Resurgence of a multi‑stage AiTM phishing and BEC campaign abusing SharePoint

Microsoft Defender Researchers uncovered a multi‑stage adversary‑in‑the‑middle AiTM phishing and business email compromise BEC campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector, resulting in the compromise of various user accounts. The campaign abused SharePoint file‑sharing services...

Resurgence of a multi‑stage AiTM phishing and BEC campaign abusing SharePoint

Microsoft Defender Researchers uncovered a multi‑stage adversary‑in‑the‑middle AiTM phishing and business email compromise BEC campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector, resulting in the compromise of various user accounts. The campaign abused SharePoint file‑sharing services...

Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware

Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that's exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers. "Attackers achieve...

Cybersecurity in the Public Sector: Challenges, Strategies and Best Practices

Public sector cybersecurity faces outdated systems, budget gaps, and rising attacks. Learn key challenges, defense strategies, and proven best practices...

MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors

The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based implant codenamed RustyWater. "The campaign uses icon spoofing and malicious Word documents to deliver...

CVE-2023-29586

Code Sector TeraCopy 3.9.7 does not perform proper access validation on the source folder during a copy operation. This leads to Arbitrary File Read by allowing any user to copy any directory in the system to a directory they control. NOTE: the Supplier disputes this because only admin users can...