Cyber Academy Founder Champions Digital Safety for All
Aliyu Ibrahim Usman, founder of the Cyber Cadet Academy in Nigeria, shares his passion for raising cybersecurity awareness in the wake of mounting security concerns worldwide.
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Silver Fox Expands Winos 4.0 Attacks to Japan and Malaysia via HoldingHands RAT
The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as HoldingHands RAT (aka Gh0stBins). “The campaign relied on phishing emails with PDFs that contained embedded malicious links,” Pei Han Liao,…
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F5 Data Breach Attack
What is the Attack? A sophisticated nation-state actor gained long-term access to F5’s corporate networks and exfiltrated files from BIG-IP product development and engineering knowledge-management systems, including portions of BIG-IP source code and information about previously undisclosed vulnerabilities. F5 has released security updates and advisories covering affected products. The stolen data could accelerate exploit development…
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Microsoft Disrupts Ransomware Campaign Abusing Azure Certificates
Microsoft revoked more than 200 digital certificates that threat actors used to sign fake Teams binaries that set the stage for Rhysida ransomware attacks.
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AI Agent Security: Whose Responsibility Is It?
The shared responsibility model of data security, familiar from cloud deployments, is key to agentic services, but cybersecurity teams and corporate users often struggle with awareness and managing that risk.
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AI Chat Data Is History’s Most Thorough Record of Enterprise Secrets, Secure it Wisely
AI interactions are becoming one of the most revealing records of human thinking; and we’re only beginning to understand what that means for law enforcement, accountability, and privacy.
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North Korean Hackers Combine BeaverTail and OtterCookie into Advanced JS Malware
The North Korean threat actor linked to the Contagious Interview campaign has been observed merging some of the functionality of two of its malware programs, indicating that the hacking group is actively refining its toolset. That’s according to new findings from Cisco Talos, which said recent campaigns undertaken by the hacking group have seen the…
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Threat Intelligence Executive Report – Volume 2025, Number 5
This issue of the Counter Threat Unit’s high-level bimonthly report discusses noteworthy updates in the threat landscape during July and August
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Identity Security: Your First and Last Line of Defense
The danger isn’t that AI agents have bad days — it’s that they never do. They execute faithfully, even when what they’re executing is a mistake. A single misstep in logic or access can turn flawless automation into a flawless catastrophe. This isn’t some dystopian fantasy—it’s Tuesday at the office now. We’ve entered a new…
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Researchers Uncover WatchGuard VPN Bug That Could Let Attackers Take Over Devices
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a recently patched critical security flaw in WatchGuard Fireware that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-9242 (CVSS score: 9.3), is described as an out-of-bounds write vulnerability affecting Fireware OS 11.10.2 up to and including 11.12.4_Update1, 12.0 up to and including