September 2025 – Page 8

New COLDRIVER Malware Campaign Joins BO Team and Bearlyfy in Russia-Focused Cyberattacks

The Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as COLDRIVER has been attributed to a fresh round of ClickFix-style attacks designed to deliver two new “lightweight” malware families tracked as BAITSWITCH and SIMPLEFIX.
Zscaler ThreatLabz, which detected the new multi-stage ClickFix campaign earlier this month, described BAITSWITCH as a downloader that ultimately drops SIMPLEFIX, a

Microsoft Reduces Israel’s Access to Cloud and AI Products Over Reports of Mass Surveillance in Gaza

Microsoft has disabled services to a unit within the Israeli military after a company review had determined its AI and cloud computing products were being used to help carry out mass surveillance of Palestinians.

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North Korea’s Fake Recruiters Feed Stolen Data to IT Workers

North Korean threat actors pose as recruiters to steal developers’ identities and supply them to fraudulent IT workers.

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Crash Tests for Security: Why BAS Is Proof of Defense, Not Assumptions

Car makers don’t trust blueprints. They smash prototypes into walls. Again and again. In controlled conditions.
Because design specs don’t prove survival. Crash tests do. They separate theory from reality. Cybersecurity is no different. Dashboards overflow with “critical” exposure alerts. Compliance reports tick every box.
But none of that proves what matters most to a CISO:

The

No Patches for Vulnerabilities Allowing Cognex Industrial Camera Hacking

Cognex is advising customers to transition to newer versions of its machine vision products.

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New XCSSET macOS Malware Variant Hijacks Cryptocurrency Transactions

The malware now uses a four-stage infection chain, has an additional persistence mechanism, and also targets Firefox browser data.

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Fortra GoAnywhere CVSS 10 Flaw Exploited as 0-Day a Week Before Public Disclosure

Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs has disclosed that it has “credible evidence” of active exploitation of the recently disclosed security flaw in Fortra GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) software as early as September 10, 2025, a whole week before it was publicly disclosed.
“This is not ‘just’ a CVSS 10.0 flaw in a solution long favored by APT groups and ransomware operators – it is a

New macOS XCSSET Variant Targets Firefox with Clipper and Persistence Module

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of a known Apple macOS malware called XCSSET that has been observed in limited attacks.
“This new variant of XCSSET brings key changes related to browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and persistence mechanisms,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a Thursday report.
“It employs sophisticated encryption and obfuscation

Recent Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day

Eight days before patches, a threat actor exploited CVE-2025-10035 as a zero-day to create a backdoor admin account.

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Cisco Firewall Zero-Days Exploited in China-Linked ArcaneDoor Attacks

Leading to remote code execution and privilege escalation, the flaws were exploited on Cisco ASA 5500-X series devices that lack secure boot.

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Month: September 2025