Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed as far back as February 2024. Cybersecurity firm Huntress, which observed the activity in December 2025 and stopped it before it could progress to the final…
Cybercriminal cryptocurrency transactions totaled billions in 2025, with activity from sanctioned countries like Russia and Iran causing the largest jump.
Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been linked to a fresh set of credential harvesting attacks targeting individuals associated with a Turkish energy and nuclear research agency, as well as staff affiliated with a European think tank and organizations in North Macedonia and Uzbekistan. The activity has been attributed to APT28 (aka BlueDelta), which was attributed…
As organizations plan for 2026, cybersecurity predictions are everywhere. Yet many strategies are still shaped by headlines and speculation rather than evidence. The real challenge isn’t a lack of forecasts—it’s identifying which predictions reflect real, emerging risks and which can safely be ignored. An upcoming webinar hosted by Bitdefender aims to cut through the noise…
Trend Micro has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting on-premise versions of Apex Central for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-69258, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. The vulnerability has been described as a case…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday said it’s retiring 10 emergency directives (Eds) that were issued between 2019 and 2024. The list of the directives now considered closed is as follows – ED 19-01: Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering ED 20-02: Mitigate Windows Vulnerabilities from January 2020 Patch Tuesday ED 20-03: Mitigate…
“Fancy Bear” relies on basic techniques that are highly effective, often delivering greater ROI than more complex malware-heavy operations.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday released an advisory warning of North Korean state-sponsored threat actors leveraging malicious QR codes in spear-phishing campaigns targeting entities in the country. “As of 2025, Kimsuky actors have targeted think tanks, academic institutions, and both U.S. and foreign government entities with embedded malicious Quick Response (QR)
What is the Vulnerability? CVE-2026-21858 arises from a Content-Type confusion flaw in n8n’s webhook and form handling logic. Specifically, certain form-based workflows do not adequately validate or enforce multipart form content types, allowing attackers to override internal request parsing state. This allows unauthenticated attackers to: – Read arbitrary files from the server filesystem – Extract…
The CrowdStrike-SGNL deal underscores how identity security has become a critical component of enterprise cybersecurity as companies add cloud services and deploy AI-driven tools.