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Cisco Talos discovered a sophisticated attack on critical infrastructure by ToyMaker and Cactus, using the LAGTOY backdoor to orchestrate a relentless double extortion scheme.

April “In the Trend of VM” (#14): vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, VMware products, Kubernetes, and Apache Tomcat. We decided to pause recording new videos, so for now only text. 🤷‍♂️🙂 🗞 Post on Habr (rus)🗒 Digest on the PT website (rus) A total of 11 trending vulnerabilities: 🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Cloud Files […]

March episode “In the Trend of VM” (#13): vulnerabilities of Microsoft, PAN-OS, СommuniGate and who should patch hosts with deployed application. I’m posting the translated video with a big delay, but it’s better than never. 😉 📹 Video on YouTube and LinkedIn🗞 Post on Habr (rus)🗒 Digest on the PT website Content: 🔻 00:00 Greetings […]

Was your Microsoft Entra ID account locked? Find out about the recent widespread lockouts caused by the new…

Microsoft on Monday announced that it has moved the Microsoft Account (MSA) signing service to Azure confidential virtual machines (VMs) and that it's also in the process of migrating the Entra ID signing service as well. The disclosure comes about seven months after the tech giant said it completed updates to Microsoft Entra ID and MS for both public and United States government clouds to

A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few traces of network activity. The NLRB whistleblower said the unusual large data outflows coincided with multiple blocked login attempts from an Internet address in Russia that tried to use valid credentials for a newly-created DOGE user account.

Fake Booking.com emails trick hotel staff into running AsyncRAT malware via fake CAPTCHA, targeting systems with remote access…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious campaign related to the North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky that exploits a now-patched vulnerability impacting Microsoft Remote Desktop Services to gain initial access. The activity has been named Larva-24005 by the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC). "In some systems, initial access was gained through

Government-backed hacking groups from North Korea (TA427), Iran (TA450), and Russia (UNK_RemoteRogue, TA422) are now using the ClickFix…

A list of topics we covered in the week of April 12 to April 18 of 2025