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Kerberoasting Detections: A New Approach to a Decade-Old Challenge

Security experts have been talking about Kerberoasting for over a decade, yet this attack continues to evade typical defense methods. Why? It’s because existing detections rely on brittle heuristics and static rules, which don’t hold up for detecting potential attack patterns in highly variable Kerberos traffic. They frequently generate false positives or miss “low-and-slow” attacks…
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Google Launches OSS Rebuild to Expose Malicious Code in Widely Used Open-Source Packages

Google has announced the launch of a new initiative called OSS Rebuild to bolster the security of the open-source package ecosystems and prevent software supply chain attacks. “As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used dependencies, OSS Rebuild gives security teams powerful data to avoid compromise without burden on upstream maintainers,” Matthew Suozzo, Google Open…
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CISA Orders Urgent Patching After Chinese Hackers Exploit SharePoint Flaws in Live Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on July 22, 2025, added two Microsoft SharePoint flaws, CVE-2025-49704 and CVE-2025-49706, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. To that end, Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies are required to remediate identified vulnerabilities by July 23, 2025. “CISA is

CISA Warns: SysAid Flaws Under Active Attack Enable Remote File Access and SSRF

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two security flaws impacting SysAid IT support software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-2775 (CVSS score: 9.3) – An improper restriction of XML external entity (XXE) reference vulnerability in the

Microsoft Links Ongoing SharePoint Exploits to Three Chinese Hacker Groups

Microsoft has formally tied the exploitation of security flaws in internet-facing SharePoint Server instances to two Chinese hacking groups called Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as early as July 7, 2025, corroborating earlier reports. The tech giant said it also observed a third China-based threat actor, which it tracks as Storm-2603, weaponizing the flaws as…
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Cisco Confirms Active Exploits Targeting ISE Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated Root Access

Cisco on Monday updated its advisory of a set of recently disclosed security flaws in Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) to acknowledge active exploitation. “In July 2025, the Cisco PSIRT [Product Security Incident Response Team], became aware of attempted exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities in the wild,” the company…
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Credential Theft and Remote Access Surge as AllaKore, PureRAT, and Hijack Loader Proliferate

Mexican organizations are still being targeted by threat actors to deliver a modified version of AllaKore RAT and SystemBC as part of a long-running campaign.  The activity has been attributed by Arctic Wolf Labs to a financially motivated hacking group called Greedy Sponge. It’s believed to be active since early 2021, indiscriminately targeting a wide…
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How to Advance from SOC Manager to CISO?

Making the move from managing a security operations center (SOC) to being a chief information security officer (CISO) is a significant career leap. Not only do you need a solid foundation of tech knowledge but also leadership skills and business smarts.  This article will guide you through the practical steps and skills you’ll need to…
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Hackers Exploit SharePoint Zero-Day Since July 7 to Steal Keys, Maintain Persistent Access

The recently disclosed critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability has been under exploitation as early as July 7, 2025, according to findings from Check Point Research. The cybersecurity company said it observed first exploitation attempts targeting an unnamed major Western government, with the activity intensifying on July 18 and 19, spanning government, telecommunications, and software

Iran-Linked DCHSpy Android Malware Masquerades as VPN Apps to Spy on Dissidents

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed new Android spyware artifacts that are likely affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and have been distributed to targets by masquerading as VPN apps and Starlink, a satellite internet connection service offered by SpaceX. Mobile security vendor Lookout said it discovered four samples of a surveillanceware tool…
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