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The art of being ungovernable
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (373+ words) Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter." "It takesvery littleto govern good people. Very little. And bad peoplecan'tbe governed at all. Or if they could, I never heard of it." " Cormac Mc Carthy, No Country for Old…...
From PDB strings to Maa S: Tracking a commodity Bad IIS ecosystem used by Chinese-speaking threat
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (274+ words) The observed builder is labeled as'version 1. 0, with an estimated original release year of 2021. However, the application header and compilation timestampindicatethat this specific artifact is an updated build compiled on August 22, 2022. The interface fields and configurable settings perfectly align with known…...
The time of much patching is coming
1+ week, 3+ day ago (590+ words) Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter." Many solutions have been proposed to reduce software bugs: zero-defect mandates, pair programming, formal methods,"and mathematical software proofs. The reality is that software engineering is"hard. Identifying and fixing…...
Ongoing exploitation of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities
1+ week, 3+ day ago (919+ words) Customers are strongly advised to follow the guidance and recommendations published in Cisco's Security Advisory on CVE-2026-20182. Customer support is also available by initiating a TAC request." Please refer to the Recommendations and Detection Guidance section for additional coverage information....
Breaking things to keep them safe with Philippe Laulheret
1+ week, 4+ day ago (113+ words) Amy Ciminnisi: So, can you talk to me a little bit about what you do in vulnerability research? AC: I love that you get to kind of pick a niche and explore. How did you get into this? AC: Did…...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2026 " Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
1+ week, 5+ day ago (284+ words) CVE-2026-33109 is a critical access control vulnerability in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra. Improper access control allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network. CVE-2026-33844 is a critical input validation vulnerability in Azure Managed Instance for Apache…...
State-sponsored actors, better known as the friends you don't want
1+ week, 5+ day ago (540+ words) Detection'methodology'does not require reinvention. The'Kill'Chain'remains'the same. It does, however, need to be calibrated for an adversary that treats every phase as an exercise in remaining invisible, that can'operate using the target's own tooling, and that measures success in months of…...
Unplug your way to better code
2+ week, 3+ day ago (408+ words) Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Hey, you. Yeah, you! The person endlessly scrolling or typing away at their computer. Did you touch grass today? It's just an expression, but if nature's your thing, that works…...
UAT-8302 and its box full of malware
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1149+ words) Net Draft is likely a. NET-ported variant of the Final Draft/Squid Door malware family developed and operated exclusively by Jewelbug/REF7707/CL-STA-0049 " also another cluster of China-nexus APT actors. Another malware family deployed by UAT-8302 is Cloud Sorcerer (version 3). Kaspersky disclosed…...
Cloud Z RAT potentially steals OTP messages using Pheno plugin
2+ week, 5+ day ago (218+ words) When'the loader is run on the victim machine, it decrypts'and drops'an'embedded. NET loader binary disguised as a text file with the file names'update. txt" or msupdate. txt" in the folder C: \Program Data\Microsoft\windos Doc\".' The loader then'conducts'hardware'and environment'checks to'identify'virtual'machine…...