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Ransomware isn’t dying — it’s mutating.
If you feel like ransomware headlines are getting harder to keep up with, you’re not imagining it. The ecosystem has exploded into something almost unrecognizable […]
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DanaBot Returns: What Security Teams Need to Know About the Banking Trojan’s Comeback
Six months after international law enforcement disrupted its infrastructure, DanaBot is back. Zscaler ThreatLabz has observed a new DanaBot variant (v669) re-emerging with rebuilt command-and-control […]
Microsoft Fixes 63 Security Flaws, Including a Windows Kernel Zero‑Day Under Active Attack — What Security Teams Should Do Now
Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday closes 63 newly disclosed vulnerabilities across Windows and related components, including a Windows Kernel privilege‑escalation zero‑day (CVE‑2025‑62215) that has seen active […]
ClickFix Phishing Campaign Targets Hotels with PureRAT — What Hospitality IT Teams Must Do Now
An extensive phishing campaign targeting the hospitality industry is using highly convincing ClickFix-style pages to harvest credentials and deliver PureRAT (zgRAT) to hotel systems. Operators […]
Microsoft Reveals Whisper Leak: How Encrypted AI Chats Can Still Leak Conversation Topics
Microsoft’s Defender research team has disclosed a new side‑channel attack, dubbed Whisper Leak, that can infer the topic of a user’s conversation with a streaming […]
How a Ransomware Gang Took Down Nevada Government Systems — And How the State Recovered
In August 2025 a coordinated ransomware incident hit the State of Nevada, affecting more than 60 agencies and disrupting websites, phone systems and citizen-facing services. […]
Cisco Warns — What Security Teams Must Do Now
Cisco recently alerted customers to an active attack variant that targets Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) […]
Microsoft October Patch Causes BitLocker Recovery Prompts What Admins Need to Know
Microsoft recently acknowledged a known issue where Windows security updates released on or after October 14, 2025 may cause some systems to boot into the […]
Active Exploitation Confirmed for Gladinet and CWP — Patch Now
CISA added CVE‑2025‑11371 (Gladinet CentreStack / Triofox — sensitive files disclosure) and CVE‑2025‑48703 (Control Web Panel — pre‑auth command injection) to the KEV catalog with […]
Microsoft Teams Bugs
Check Point disclosed flaws in Microsoft Teams that let attackers alter message content and sender metadata (including notifications and display names) to impersonate colleagues, hide […]