A previously unknown threat activity cluster has been observed impersonating Slovak cybersecurity company ESET as part of phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. The campaign, detected in May 2025, is tracked by the security outfit under the moniker InedibleOchotense, describing it as Russia-aligned. “InedibleOchotense sent spear-phishing emails and Signal text messages, containing a link
Cisco on Wednesday disclosed that it became aware of a new attack variant that’s designed to target devices running Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software releases that are susceptible to CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362. “This attack can cause unpatched devices to unexpectedly reload, leading to denial-of-service
Introduction Financial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being a best practice, to an operational necessity, to a prescriptive regulatory requirement. Crisis management or Tabletop exercises, for a long time relatively rare in the context of cybersecurity, have become required as a series of regulations has introduced this requirement to FSI…
Cybercrime has stopped being a problem of just the internet — it’s becoming a problem of the real world. Online scams now fund organized crime, hackers rent violence like a service, and even trusted apps or social platforms are turning into attack vectors. The result is a global system where every digital weakness can be…
Bitdefender has once again been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) — marking the fourth consecutive year of inclusion. According to Gartner, more than 600 providers globally claim to deliver MDR services, yet only a select few meet the criteria to appear in the Market…
Attackers can use them to inject arbitrary prompts, exfiltrate personal user information, bypass safety mechanisms, and take other malicious actions.
What is the Vulnerability? A critical Out-of-Bounds Write vulnerability (CVE-2025-9242) exists in the WatchGuard Fireware OS iked process, which handles IKEv2 VPN connections. The flaw allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on affected devices. The vulnerability impacts both: – Mobile user VPNs using IKEv2, and – Branch Office VPNs using IKEv2 when…
The threat actor known as Curly COMrades has been observed exploiting virtualization technologies as a way to bypass security solutions and execute custom malware. According to a new report from Bitdefender, the adversary is said to have enabled the Hyper-V role on selected victim systems to deploy a minimalistic, Alpine Linux-based virtual machine. “This hidden…
A critical security issue in a popular endpoint manager (CVE-2025-61932) allowed Chinese state-sponsored attackers to backdoor Japanese businesses.
The Japanese media giant said thousands of employee and business partners were impacted by an attack that compromised Slack account data and chat histories.