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CISA says cooperation between federal agencies and the private sector remains steady. Long-standing Linux kernel vulnerability in active ransomware campaigns confirmed. A Chinese-linked group targets diplomatic organizations in Hungary, Belgium, and other European nations. A government contractor breach exposes data of over 10 million Americans. Luxury fashion brands fall victim to impersonation s...

Happy Halloween from the team at N2K Networks! We hope you share in our Halloween tradition of listening to the Malware Mash. You can check out our video ⁠here⁠. Lyrics I was coding in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight  for my malware threat score began to rise  and suddenly to my surprise... It did the Mash  It did the Malware Mash  The Malware Mash  It was a botnet smash ...

A Texas telecom confirms a nation-state attack. A global outage disrupts Azure and Microsoft 365 services.  Malicious npm packages steal sensitive data from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.  Hacktivists have breached multiple critical infrastructure systems across Canada. Major chipmakers spill the TEE. TP-Link home routers fall under federal scrutiny. Cloud Atlas targets Russia’s agricultural s...

Explosions rock a shuttered Myanmar cybercrime hub. The Aisuru botnet shifts from DDoS to residential proxies. Dentsu confirms data theft at Merkle. Boston bans biometrics. Proton restores journalists’ email accounts after backlash. Memento labs admits Dante spyware is theirs. Australia accuses Microsoft of improperly forcing users into AI upgrades. CISA warns of active exploitation targeting manu...

WSUS attacks escalate as emergency patch fails to fully contain exploited flaw. Schneider Electric and Emerson are listed among victims in the Oracle EBS cyberattack. Google debunks reports of a massive GMail breach. A new banking trojan mimics human behavior for stealth. Sweden’s power grid operator confirms a cyberattack. Italian spyware targets Russian and Belarusian organizations. The U.S. dec...

The UN launches the world’s first global treaty to combat cybercrime. A House Democrats’ job portal left security clearance data exposed online. A new data leak exposes 183 million email addresses and passwords. Threat actors target Discord users with an open-source red-team toolkit. A new campaign targets unpatched WordPress plugins. The City of Gloversville, New York, suffers a ransomware attack...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Chief Security Strategist and VP of Global Threat Intelligence at FortiGuard Labs, Derek Manky, shares his story from programmer to cybersecurity and how it all came together. Derek started his career teaching programming because he had such a passion for it. When he joined Fortinet, Derek said putting where it "really started putting the rubber to the roa...

Noam Moshe, Claroty’s Vulnerability Research Team Lead, joins Dave to discuss Team 82's work on "Turning Camera Surveillance on its Axis." Team82 disclosed four vulnerabilities in Axis. Remoting—deserialization, a MiTM “pass-the-challenge” NTLMSSP flaw, and an unauthenticated fallback HTTP endpoint—that enable pre-auth remote code execution against Axis Device Manager and Axis Camera Station. They...

A former defense contractor is charged with attempting to sell trade secrets to Russia. Researchers uncover critical vulnerabilities in TP-Link routers. Microsoft patches a critical Windows Server Update Service flaw. CISA issues eight new ICS advisories. “Shadow Escape” targets LLMs database connections. Halloween-themed scams spike. Our guest is Chris Inglis, first National Cyber Director, speak...

CISA Layoffs threaten U.S. cyber coordination with states, businesses, and foreign partners. Google issues its second emergency Chrome update in a week, and puts Privacy Sandbox out of its misery. OpenAI’s new browser proves vulnerable to indirect prompt injection. SpaceX disables Starlink devices used by scam compounds. Reddit sues alleged data scrapers. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana suffers...

A foreign threat actor breached a key U.S. nuclear weapons manufacturing site. The cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover is the most financially damaging cyber incident in UK history. A new report from Microsoft’ warns that AI is reshaping cybersecurity at an unprecedented pace. The ToolShell vulnerability fuels Chinese cyber operations across four continents. Fake browser updates are spreading RansomH...

CISA warns a Windows SMB privilege escalation flaw is under Active exploitation. Microsoft issues an out of band fix for a WinRE USB input failure. Nation state hackers had long term access to F5. Envoy Air confirms it was hit by the zero-day in Oracle’s E-Business Suite. A nonprofit hospital system in Massachusetts suffers a cyberattack. Russian’s COLDRiver group rapidly retools its malware arsen...

An AWS outage sparks speculation. An F5 exposure and breach raise patching and supply-chain concerns. Salt Typhoon breaches a European telecom via a Netscaler flaw. A judge bans NSO Group from Whatsapp. China alleges “irrefutable evidence” of NSA hacking. Connectwise patches adversary in the middle risks. A Dolby decoder flaw enables zero-click remote code execution on Android. A Cyber M&A and fun...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Cybersecurity Associate Consultant at BARR Advisory, Kristin Strand, shares her journey from the military to teaching and now to cybersecurity. Kristin shares how she'd wanted to be a teacher since she was young. She joined the Army to help pay for college and throughout her career has taken advantage of programs to help her move on to her next challenge....

Eclypsium researchers Jesse Michael and Mickey Shkatov to share their work on "BadCam - Now Weaponizing Linux Webcams." Eclypsium researchers disclosed “BadCam,” a set of vulnerabilities in certain Lenovo USB webcams that run Linux and do not validate firmware signatures, allowing attackers to reflash the devices and turn them into BadUSB-style tools. An adversary who supplies a backdoored camera...

Prosper data breach reportedly affected more than 17 million accounts. Microsoft revokes certificates used in Rhysida ransomware operation. Threat actors exploit Cisco flaw to deploy Linux rootkits. Europol disrupts cybercrime-as-a-service operation. BeaverTail and OtterCookie merge and display new functionality. Singapore cracks down on social media. On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined...

F5 discloses long-term breach tied to nation-state actors. PowerSchool hacker receives a four-year prison sentence. Senator scrutinizes Cisco critical firewall vulnerabilities. Phishing campaign impersonates LastPass and Bitwarden. Credential phishing with Google Careers. Reduce effort, reuse past breaches, recycle into new breach. Qilin announces new victims. Manoj Nair, from Snyk, joins us to ex...

A record-breaking Bitcoin seizure. Patch Tuesday notes. Capita fined for unlawful access to personal data. Unity site skimmed by malicious script. Vietnam Airlines breached potentially exposing 20 million passengers. An automotive giant experiences a third-party breach. Tim Starks from CyberScoop is discussing how Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharin...

Fortra confirms an exploitation of the maximum-severity GoAnywhere flaw. Harvard investigates a claim of a breach. Banking Trojan targets Brazilian WhatsApp users. Reduction-in-force hits CISA. SimonMed says 1.2 million hit by Medusa ransomware. Netherlands invokes the Goods Availability Act against a Chinese company. We have our Business Breakdown. On today’s Industry Voices, we are joined by Mic...

While the N2K team is observing Indigenous Peoples' Day, we thought you'd enjoy this episode of the Threat Vector podcast from our N2K Cyberwire network partner, Palo Alto Networks. New episodes of Threat Vector release each Thursday. We hope you will explore their catalog and subscribe to the show. Join David Moulton, Senior Director of Thought Leadership for Unit 42, as he sits down with Kyle Wi...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Founder and CTO of ShiftLeft, Chetan Conikee shares his story from computer science to founding his own company. When choosing a career, Chetan notes that "the liking and doing has to matter and be in conjunction with each other." Explaining the parallels in his home country of India and where he studied his for his masters in the US, Chetan stresses the n...

John Fokker, Head of Threat Intelligence at Trellix is discussing "Gang Wars: Breaking Trust Among Cyber Criminals." Trellix researchers reveal how the once-organized ransomware underworld is collapsing under its own paranoia. Once united through Ransomware-as-a-Service programs, gangs are now turning on each other — staging hacks, public feuds, and exit scams as trust evaporates. With affiliates...

International law enforcement take down the Breachforums domains. Researchers link exploitation campaigns targeting Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet. Juniper Networks patches over 200 vulnerabilities. Apple and Google update their bug bounties. Evaluating AI use in application security (AppSec) programs. Microsegmentation can contain ransomware much faster and yield better cyber insurance t...

DHS reassigns cyberstaff to immigration duties. A massive DDoS attack disrupts several major gaming platforms. Discord refuses ransom after a third-party support system breach. Researchers examine Chaos ransomware and creative log-poisoning web intrusions. The FCC reconsiders its telecom data breach disclosure rule. Experts warn of teen recruitment in pro-Russian hacking operations. Ukraine’s parl...

Chinese hackers infiltrate a major U.S. law firm. The EU Commission President warns Russia is waging a hybrid war against Europe. Researchers say LoJax is the latest malware from Russia’s Fancy Bear. Salesforce refuses ransom demands. London Police arrest two teens over an alleged ransomware attack on a preschool. Microsoft tightens Windows 11 setup restrictions. SINET and DataTribe spotlight 2025...