Tag: Alert

Pro-Russia Hacktivists: Opportunistic Attacks Against US and Global Critical Infrastructure

CISA, FBI, NSA and 23 international partner organizations published on December 9, 2025 a joint advisory detailing the activities of pro-Russia hacktivist groups targeting industrial control systems and critical infrastructure in the United States and globally. This publication follows Operation Eastwood conducted by the European Cybercrime Centre and the joint fact sheet of May 6,…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025.

Total vulnerabilities fixed: Microsoft’s December 2025 Patch Tuesday addresses 57 security flaws. Among these, 3 vulnerabilities are rated Critical (all remote code execution issues), with the remainder classified as Important (none are labeled as Moderate or Low this month). Note that Microsoft Edge updates (15 vulnerabilities) are not included here, as Edge was updated earlier…

Shai-Hulud worm infects over 800 npm packages and leaks developer secrets on GitHub

The JavaScript community is grappling with a new software supply-chain attack: a malware dubbed Shai-Hulud has poisoned hundreds of packages in the npm registry. This malicious campaign – referred to by its authors as “Sha1-Hulud: The Second Coming” – exceeds the scale of the worm’s first appearance in September 2025. Over the span of a…

CERT-UA Alert about UAC-0241

Executive Summary Between May and November 2025, threat actor UAC-0241 conducted a campaign against educational institutions and government bodies in eastern Ukraine. The attack involved a compromised Gmail account distributing a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK that triggered an HTA → JS → PowerShell execution chain. This led to the deployment of LAZAGNE, several…

From Diplomatic Tension to Critical Incident

Analyzing the Cycle of Cyber Retaliation Executive Summary The correlation between geopolitical tensions and cyber threat intensity is well-established, yet its temporal and sequential mechanics follow a precise model that defense teams must master. Analysis of recent conflicts reveals a standardized threat lifecycle: For CERTs and CSIRTs: Monitoring geopolitical indicators must now trigger specific vigilance…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – November 2025

Fixing 63 Flaws Including 1 Active Zero-Day You will find below my hot take on this historic Microsoft Patch Tuesday, following the official end of support for Windows 10… I hope you find it useful. Executive Summary Overview of the November 2025 Patch Tuesday On November 11, 2025, Microsoft released its monthly batch of security…

Microsoft Exchange Server On-Premises: Security Best Practices

In this article, I present a summary of the security best practices for Microsoft Exchange Server, directly inspired by the recommendations published by the NSA and CISA. These guidelines aim to strengthen the resilience of Exchange environments hosted in data centers — whether on-premises or hybrid — against current threats, including email account compromises and…

UAC-0239 Conducts Cyberattacks in Ukraine Using the OrcaC2 Framework and FILEMESS Stealer

Since the second half of September 2025, the National Cybersecurity Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has observed a new wave of targeted cyberattacks against Ukrainian defense forces and local government institutions.These attacks have been attributed to the UAC-0239 group, believed to be operating on behalf of or in cooperation with Russian threat actors. The attackers…

Red Hat data breach: analysis for CISOs, CERTs, CSIRTs and SOC teams

Executive summary On 2 October 2025, the extortion group Crimson Collective announced on Telegram that it had compromised Red Hat Consulting’s private Git repositories. Reports indicate that the attackers stole approximately 570 GB of compressed data from around 28 000 internal repositories. Among the stolen files were Customer Engagement Reports (CERs), which contain architecture diagrams, configuration details, authentication tokens and network maps. The leak…