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CISA Outlines Lessons Learned from the 2024 FCEB intrusion
CISA’s analysis of a 2024 FCEB intrusion attributes initial access to GeoServer CVE-2024-36401 exploitation, followed by China Chopper web shells, Stowaway proxy tunneling, and multi-platform reconnaissance. The incident highlights delayed patching, missing endpoint protection, and weak incident response coordination across a federal agency’s infrastructure.
When Chat Becomes Compromise: Building Defenses Around Prompt-Centric Risk
Security researcher Thomas Roccia warns that prompts are the newest attack surface in enterprise AI systems. His Indicators of Prompt Compromise (IoPCs) model categorizes manipulative or malicious prompt behaviors and guides defenders in hunting, detecting, and mitigating prompt-based threats within chat, agent, and retrieval workflows.
Weaponized Documents and Cloud C2 underpin APT28’s Active 2025 Campaign
Sekoia details APT28’s 2025 campaign against Ukrainian defense personnel using spear-phished Word lures delivered via Signal. The macro-enabled documents install a COM-hijacked DLL loader that extracts Covenant and BeardShell payloads, leveraging Koofr and icedrive cloud APIs for C2. Additional spyware, SlimAgent, extends surveillance and data theft functions.
DragonForce, Play, and RansomHub Collide in One Intrusion
The DFIR Report documents a six-day 2024 intrusion showing tradecraft overlap among DragonForce, Play, and RansomHub ransomware groups. Shared tools—AdFind, PsExec, SystemBC, and Betruger—enabled lateral movement, credential theft, and exfiltration without encryption. The incident highlights affiliate cross-pollination complicating attribution and strengthening pre-ransomware detection needs.
Talos Finds Swift Response Key to Blocking Ransomware Deployment
Cisco Talos Incident Response’s analysis of pre-ransomware cases (2023–2025) shows rapid incident handling and tight privilege restrictions as the most effective defenses against ransomware. Common precursors included RDP, PsExec, AnyDesk, and LSASS dumping. Talos recommends MFA, Sysmon, offline backups, and segmentation to prevent full deployment.
Popular npm Libraries Compromised in Phishing Attack on Maintainer
A phishing campaign using a spoofed npmjs[.]help domain let attackers seize a maintainer’s account and corrupt popular npm packages—chalk, debug, and others—with obfuscated browser-side code that hijacked cryptocurrency transactions. The two-hour compromise affected billions of weekly downloads, prompting broad cleanup and ongoing registry monitoring.
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