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Public and Private Medical Community Targeted by China-Nexus Threat Actor Pursuing Artificial Intelligence, Cyber, Medical, and National Defense Research

Written by: Patrick Whitsell, John McGuiness, Muhammad Umair Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a sophisticated campaign attributed to UNC6508, a People's Republic of China (PRC)-nexus threat actor, targeting institutions in the North American academic, medical, and military research community. While remaining undetected for over a year, the threat actor compromised externally facing web applications, deployed bespoke malware, pivoted to sensitive internal systems, and abuse…

EvilTokens: A phishing attack that doesn’t steal your password

A phishing kit subverting Microsoft’s legitimate authentication flow lets attackers break into accounts without stealing passwords or creating fake login pages

Akira, LimeWire, and the Sour Taste of Data Exfiltration

A recent investigation uncovered an Akira affiliate abusing a website owned by file-sharing app LimeWire for data exfiltration. Here's how the attack unfolded.

Inside Kali365, a Device Code Phishing Ecosystem | Huntress

Huntress traced device code phishing from Tencent Cloud to Kali365, a Microsoft 365 kit that steals tokens and keeps access even after MFA or password resets.

OceanLotus: From external espionage to domestic targeting

A shift in operational pattern of the infamous Vietnam-aligned APT group

Sniper’s Nest: From Brand Impersonation to Browser Hijacking and CPA Fraud

This blog provides a deep-dive into SniperDz, a centralised PhaaS platform with more than 80 ready-made phishing templates impersonating over 30 global brands, and uncovers the hidden infrastructure behind this sophisticated and highly-organized fraud ecosystem.

Deceptive Installers: How Fake Apps Target macOS

Deceptive installers disguised as legit macOS software deliver infostealers that grab passwords, cookies, and crypto wallets. Learn how to detect them.

2026-008: Critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti Sentry

On 9 June 2026, Ivanti released a security advisory addressing two critical vulnerabilities in their Sentry products[1]. An attacker could exploit those flaws to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution on the vulnerable device.

Unpacking SMB cyber-readiness – and what makes or breaks it

A company that's expecting a cyberattack but hasn’t actively prepared for it risks making the hardest decisions at the worst possible moment

SilabRAT, What’s Your Power?

SilabRAT (aka SnappyClient) is an advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) sold as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) on Darkweb forums. Developed by the threat actor "o1oo1," SilabRAT is heavily focused on financial gain through credential theft. It offers stability and is capable of bypassing existing security measures.

2026-007: Critical Vulnerability in Windows Netlogon

On 12 May 2026, Microsoft published a security advisory addressing a critical vulnerability affecting Windows Server when acting as a domain controller. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code over a network. According to The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), this vulnerability is currently exploited by threat actors. It is strongly recommended updating affected Windows servers as soon as possible.

Security Alert: Alert Regarding Vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader (APSB26-63)

Security Alert: Microsoft Releases June 2026 Security Updates

Cybercriminals: the 'auditors' you never hired

Every organisation gets audited. The question is who does the auditing.

Gartner Security Summit 2026: Huntress 5 Key Takeaways

Resilience, identity, and practical AI led the conversation at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026. Here are five key takeaways security leaders should act on.

Defend against frontier cyber models: Cloudflare's architecture as customer zero

In our post about Project Glasswing, we made the argument that the architecture around a vulnerability matters more than the speed of the patch. Here we walk through what that architecture looks like, the threats it defends against, and how we run it ourselves as Cloudflare's customer zero.

Turning Cloudflare’s threat indicators into real-time WAF rules

Cloudflare customers can now use Cloudforce One threat intelligence directly within the WAF to block high-risk traffic. By using new cf.intel fields, security teams can automate protection against specific threat actors and targeted industries in real time.

CVE-2025-11573 - Denial of Service issue in Amazon.IonDotnet

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-022 Scope: Amazon Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/10/09 11:00 PM PDT Description: Amazon.IonDotnet is a library for the Dotnet language that is used to read and write Amazon Ion data. We identified CVE-2025-11573, which describes an infinite loop issue in Amazon.IonDotnet library versions

Buffer Over-read when receiving improperly sized ICMPv6 packets

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-023 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/10/10 10:15 PM PDT We identified the following CVEs: CVE-2025-11616 - A Buffer Over-read when receiving ICMPv6 packets of certain message types which are smaller than the expected size. CVE-2025-11617 - A Buffer Over-read when receiving a IPv6 packet with incorrect payload lengths in the packet header. CVE-2025-11618 - An invalid pointer dereference when receiving a UDP/IPv6 packet with an i…

IMDS impersonation

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-021 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/10/07 01:30 PM PDT Description: AWS is aware of a potential Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) impersonation issue that would lead to customers interacting with unexpected AWS accounts. IMDS, when running on an EC2 instance, runs on a loopback network interface and vends Instance Metadata Credentials, which customers use to interact with AWS Services. These network calls never leave the EC2 in…

CVE-2025-11462 AWS ClientVPN macOS Client Local Privilege Escalation

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-020 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/10/07 01:30 PM PDT Description: AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that enables secure access to AWS and on-premises resources. The AWS Client VPN client software runs on end-user devices, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux and provides the ability for end users to establish a secure tunnel to the AWS Client VPN Service. We have identified CVE-2025-11462, an issue in AWS …

CVE-2025-12829 - Integer Overflow issue in Amazon Ion-C

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-027 Scope: Amazon Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/11/7 10:15 AM PDT Description: Amazon's Ion-C is a library for the C language that is used to read and write Amazon Ion data. We Identified CVE-2025-12829, which describes an uninitialized stack read issue in Ion-C versions < v1.1.4 that may allow a threat actor to craft data and serialize it to Ion text in such a way that sensitive data in memory could be exposed through UTF-8 escape seq…

CVE-2025-12815 - RES web portal may display preview of Virtual Desktops that the user shouldn't have access to

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-026 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/11/6 09:15 AM PDT Description: Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES) is an open source, easy-to-use web-based portal for administrators to create and manage secure cloud-based research and engineering environments. We identified CVE-2025-12815, in which an ownership verification issue in the Virtual Desktop preview page in the Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS before versio…

Improper authentication token handling in the Amazon WorkSpaces client for Linux

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-025 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/11/5 13:20 PM PDT Description: We identified CVE-2025-12779, which describes an issue in the Amazon WorkSpaces client for Linux . Improper handling of the authentication token in the Amazon WorkSpaces client for Linux, versions 2023.0 through 2024.8, may expose the authentication token for DCV-based WorkSpaces to other local users on the same client machine. Under certain circumstances, an u…

CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881 - runc container issues

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-024 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/11/5 8:45 PM PDT CVE Identifiers: CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881 AWS is aware of recently disclosed security issues affecting the runc component of several open source container management systems (CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881) when launching new containers. AWS does not consider containers a security boundary, and does not utilize containers to isolate cust…

Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS JDBC Wrapper, AWS Go Wrapper, AWS NodeJS Wrapper, AWS Python Wrapper, AWS PGSQL ODBC driver

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-028 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/11/10 10:15 AM PDT Description: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL a fully managed relational database engine that's compatible with PostgreSQL. We identified CVE-2025-12967, an issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Ama…

CVE-2025-66478: RCE in React Server Components

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-030 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/12/03 20:00 PM PST Description: AWS is aware of the recently disclosed CVE-2025-55182 which affects the React Server Flight protocol in React versions 19.0, 19.1, and 19.2, as well as in Next.js versions 15.x, 16.x, Next.js 14.3.0-canary.77 and later canary releases when using App Router. This issue may permit unauthorized remote code execution on affected applications servers. AWS is aware …

Key Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption Clients

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-032 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/12/17 12:15 PM PST We identify the following CVEs: CVE-2025-14763 - Key Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption Client in Java CVE-2025-14764 - Key Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption Client in Go CVE-2025-14759 - Key Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption Client in .NET CVE-2025-14760 - Key Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption Client in C++ - part of the AWS SDK for C++ CVE-2025-14761 - Key Commitment …