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🖋️ China-Linked Amaranth-Dragon Exploits WinRAR Flaw in Espionage Campaigns 🖋️

Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement agencies across Southeast Asia throughout 2025. Check Point Research is tracking the previously undocumented activity cluster under the moniker AmaranthDragon, which it said shares links to the APT 41 ecosystem. Targeted countries include Cambodia,.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Orchid Security Introduces Continuous Identity Observability for Enterprise Applications 🖋️

An innovative approach to discovering, analyzing, and governing identity usage beyond traditional IAM controls. The Challenge Identity Lives Outside the Identity Stack Identity and access management tools were built to govern users and directories. Modern enterprises run on applications. Over time, identity logic has moved into application code, APIs, service accounts, and custom authentication.

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🖋️ The First 90 Seconds: How Early Decisions Shape Incident Response Investigations 🖋️

Many incident response failures do not come from a lack of tools, intelligence, or technical skills. They come from what happens immediately after detection, when pressure is high, and information is incomplete. I have seen IR teams recover from sophisticated intrusions with limited telemetry. I have also seen teams lose control of investigations they should have been able to handle. The.

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🖋️ Microsoft Warns Python Infostealers Target macOS via Fake Ads and Installers 🖋️

Microsoft has warned that informationstealing attacks are "rapidly expanding" beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging crossplatform languages like Python and abusing trusted platforms for distribution at scale. The tech giant's Defender Security Research Team said it observed macOStargeted infostealer campaigns using social engineering techniques such as ClickFix since.

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🖋️ Eclipse Foundation Mandates Pre-Publish Security Checks for Open VSX Extensions 🖋️

The Eclipse Foundation, which maintains the Open VSX Registry, has announced plans to enforce security checks before Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code extensions are published to the opensource repository to combat supply chain threats. The move marks a shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to ensure that malicious extensions don't end up getting published on the Open VSX Registry.

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🖋️ CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Web Help Desk RCE to KEV Catalog 🖋️

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting SolarWinds Web Help Desk WHD to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, flagging it as actively exploited in attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE202540551 CVSS score 9.8, is a untrusted data deserialization vulnerability that could pave the way for remote.

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📔 Global SystemBC Botnet Found Active Across 10,000 Infected Systems 📔

SystemBC malware linked to 10,000 infected IPs, posing risks to sensitive government infrastructure.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 New Technical Markers Reveal Expanding ShadowSyndicate Cybercriminal Infrastructure 📔

ShadowSyndicate cluster expands with new SSH fingerprints connecting servers to other ransomware ops.

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📔 AI Drives Doubling of Phishing Attacks in a Year 📔

Cofense claims AI is making phishing emails more personalized and sophisticated.

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📔 Two Critical Flaws in n8n AI Workflow Automation Platform Allow Complete Takeover 📔

Pillar Security discovered two new critical vulnerabilities in n8n that could lead to supply chain compromise, credential harvesting and complete takeover attacks.

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📔 SolarWinds Web Help Desk Vulnerability Actively Exploited 📔

CISA has added a critical CVE in SolarWinds Web Help Desk to its KEV Catalog.

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📔 Hundreds of Malicious Crypto Trading Add-Ons Found in Moltbot/OpenClaw 📔

A security researcher found 386 malicious skills published on ClawHub, a skill repository for the popular OpenClaw AI assistant project.

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🦅 Ransomware Attacks Have Surged 30% Since Q4 2025 🦅

Ransomware groups claimed more than 2,000 attacks in the last three months of 2025  and theyre starting 2026 at the same elevated pace.  Cyble recorded 2,018 claimed attacks by ransomware groups in the fourth quarter of 2025, an average of just under 673 a month. The threat groups maintained that pace in January 2026, claiming 679 ransomware victims.  By comparison, in the first nine months of 2025, ransomware groups averaged 512 claimed victims a month, so the trend in the last four months has been more than 30 above the previous ninemonth period. The chart below shows ransomware attacks by month since 2021.  Qilin Leads All Ransomware Groups as CL0P Returns  Qilin once again led all ransomware groups, with 115 claimed attacks in January. A resurgent CL0P has claimed score...

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🖋️ Microsoft Develops Scanner to Detect Backdoors in Open-Weight Large Language Models 🖋️

Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in openweight large language models LLMs and improve the overall trust in artificial intelligence AI systems. The tech giant's AI Security team said the scanner leverages three observable signals that can be used to reliably flag the presence of backdoors while maintaining a low false positive.

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🖋️ DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files 🖋️

Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEADVAX that employs a mix of "disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features" to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan RAT known as AsyncRAT. "The attack leverages IPFShosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and inmemory.

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📢 Security experts warn Substack users to brace for phishing attacks after breach 📢

Substack CEO Christ Best confirmed the incident occurred in October 2025.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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📢 Security experts warn Substack users to brace for phishing attacks after breach 📢

Substack CEO Christ Best confirmed the incident occurred in October 2025.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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📢 Security experts warn Substack users to brace for phishing attacks after breach 📢

Substack CEO Christ Best confirmed the incident occurred in October 2025.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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📢 Security experts warn Substack users to brace for phishing attacks after breach 📢

Substack CEO Christ Best confirmed the incident occurred in October 2025.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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📢 Security experts warn Substack users to brace for phishing attacks after breach 📢

Substack CEO Christ Best confirmed the incident occurred in October 2025.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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📢 Security experts warn Substack users to brace for phishing attacks after breach 📢

Substack CEO Christ Best confirmed the incident occurred in October 2025.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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