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The Cyber Resilience Act: What MSPs Need to Know About the New European Guidance
The new guidance on the Cyber Resilience Act clarifies how to apply its requirements. Find out what it means for tech vendors and what MSPs need to keep on their radar.
When Vulnerability Databases Are No Longer Enough
Explore why security teams and MSPs need to prioritize vulnerabilities based on the actual risk to each environment.
From MSP to Strategic Advisor: Lead with Risk
Discover how MSPs can become trusted risk advisors, strengthen client relationships, and drive growth. Register for WatchGuard’s webinar today.
5 Tips for Scaling Cloud Security Without Adding Complexity
Discover 5 key strategies to scale cloud security, reduce the workload on your team, and increase the value of every customer.
Sophisticated Attacks No Longer Require Sophisticated Attackers
Artificial Intelligence is lowering the barrier to advanced cyber capabilities by making expertise, knowledge, and operational execution more accessible.
Unlock MSP Growth: How AI Drives Operational Efficiency and New Revenue
Discover how AI can help MSPs streamline operations, strengthen security, and unlock new revenue opportunities. Register for WatchGuard’s live webinar.
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WatchGuard Names Five Winners in $10 Million AI Innovation Challenge
Strong global participation reinforces MSP demand for practical AI innovations that improve security outcomes and operational efficiency
WatchGuard Goes Multi-Model on Frontier AI for Stronger MSP Defense
Participation in OpenAI's Daybreak program and Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program advances vulnerability research, security testing, and proactive threat defense.
Employees Drive Rising Cybersecurity Risk As Shadow AI and Unsafe Work Habits Surge, WatchGuard Global Survey Finds
New Research Highlights Growing Visibility Gap Between Employee Behavior and Organizational Security Controls.
WatchGuard Launches AI Innovation Challenge, Inviting MSPs to Help Shape the Future of AI-Powered Cybersecurity
Part of WatchGuard's $10M AI investment, the challenge will fund selected MSP ideas with up to $100,000 each, and one Grand Prize winner earns an exclusive VIP trip to WatchGuard Impact North America.
WatchGuard Appoints Vincent Hwang as Chief Product Officer to Accelerate Platform Strategy and AI-Driven Innovation
Former Fortinet, Cisco, and Bitdefender leader brings proven track record in scaling cybersecurity platforms, strengthening partner-driven growth, and shaping category-defining product narratives.
WatchGuard Named a Champion in the Omdia Global Cybersecurity MSP Ecosystems Leadership Matrix for Fourth Consecutive Year
Recognition highlights WatchGuard’s continued innovation in helping MSPs scale through its Unified Security Platform®, agentic AI, and expanded cloud security capabilities
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Ethereum Malware Loader Targets Portuguese-Speaking Users
TL;DR Cristóbal Tárraga García, a member of the WatchGuard Threat Lab, uncovered a malware loader targeting Portuguese-speaking users that uses an Ethereum smart contract to dynamically locate attacker infrastructure and distribute additional payloads. The multi-stage infection chain combines…
ErrTraffic Malware Campaign: ClickFix and EtherHiding
TL;DR Euler Neto, a member of the WatchGuard Threat Lab identified an active malware campaign using the ErrTraffic Malware-as-a-Service framework to distribute multiple threats through compromised WordPress websites, ClickFix social engineering, and EtherHiding. The campaign uses Polygon blockchain…
When AI Becomes the Attacker: What Autonomous Models Mean for Cybersecurity
Artificial intelligence is no longer just helping cybersecurity teams analyze alerts, write code, or investigate threats. Increasingly capable AI models can now reason through cybersecurity problems, identify vulnerabilities, chain weaknesses together, and autonomously pursue an objective. That…
OpenAI’s Lab Rat Escapes
TL;DR: OpenAI models under evaluation reportedly escaped a restricted lab environment, exploited a zero-day vulnerability to gain internet access, and targeted Hugging Face while attempting to solve a cybersecurity benchmark. The incident highlights the growing risk of autonomous AI-driven attacks…
2026 Cyber Hygiene Report: The Security Tools Are There. The Habits Still Need Work.
Cybersecurity technology continues to improve, but one of the biggest security challenges facing organizations remains surprisingly familiar: human behavior. WatchGuard’s 2026 Cyber Hygiene Report, based on responses from employees at small and midsized businesses across the United States, Europe…
Ransomware Tracker (Entry #356): JADEPUFFER
JADEPUFFER is the name of the agentic threat actor (ATA) that exploited a vulnerability in an Internet-facing Langflow instance ( CVE-2025-3248) and, without human intervention, gained persistence, enumerated a victim's systems, and deployed ransomware across the network. It was first reported on…
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U.S. Treasury Lifts Sanctions on Three Individuals Linked to Intellexa and Predator Spyware
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday removed three individuals linked to the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company behind a commercial spyware known as Predator , from the specially designated nationals list. The names of the individuals are as follows - Merom Harpaz Andrea Nicola Constantino Hermes Gambazzi Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou Hamou was sanctioned by OFAC in March 2024, and Harpaz and Gambazzi were targeted in September 2024 in connection with developing, operating, and distributing Predator. It's currently not known why they were removed from the list. Harpaz is said to be working as a manager of Intellexa S.A., while Gambazzi was identified as the owner of Thalestris Limited and Intellexa Limited. Thalestris, Treasury Department said, held the distribution rights to the spyware, and processed transactions on behalf of other entities within the Intellexa Consortium. It's also the parent company...
IBM Warns of Critical API Connect Bug Allowing Remote Authentication Bypass
IBM has disclosed details of a critical security flaw in API Connect that could allow attackers to gain remote access to the application. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-13915 , is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as an authentication bypass flaw. "IBM API Connect could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication mechanisms and gain unauthorized access to the application," the tech giant said in a bulletin. The shortcoming affects the following versions of IBM API Connect - 10.0.8.0 through 10.0.8.5 10.0.11.0 Customers are advised to follow the steps outlined below - Download the fix from Fix Central Extract the files: Readme.md and ibm-apiconnect-<version>-ifix.13195.tar.gz Apply the fix based on the appropriate API Connect version "Customers unable to install the interim fix should disable self-service sign-up on their Developer Portal if enabled, which will help minimise their exp...
Researchers Spot Modified Shai-Hulud Worm Testing Payload on npm Registry
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what appears to be a new strain of Shai Hulud on the npm registry with slight modifications from the previous wave observed last month. The npm package that embeds the novel Shai Hulud strain is " @vietmoney/react-big-calendar ," which was uploaded to npm back in March 2021 by a user named "hoquocdat." It was updated for the first time on December 28, 2025, to version 0.26.2. The package has been downloaded 698 times since its initial publication. The latest version has been downloaded 197 times. Aikido, which spotted the package, said it has not spotted any major spread or infections following the release of the package. "This suggests we may have caught the attackers testing their payload," security researcher Charlie Eriksen said . "The differences in the code suggests that this was obfuscated again from the original source, not modified in place. This makes it highly unlikely to be a copy-ca...
Trust Wallet Chrome Extension Hack Drains $8.5M via Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack
Trust Wallet on Tuesday revealed that the second iteration of the Shai-Hulud (aka Sha1-Hulud) supply chain outbreak in November 2025 was likely responsible for the hack of its Google Chrome extension, ultimately resulting in the theft of approximately $8.5 million in assets. "Our Developer GitHub secrets were exposed in the attack, which gave the attacker access to our browser extension source code and the Chrome Web Store (CWS) API key," the company said in a post-mortem published Tuesday. "The attacker obtained full CWS API access via the leaked key, allowing builds to be uploaded directly without Trust Wallet's standard release process, which requires internal approval/manual review." Subsequently, the attacker is said to have registered the domain "metrics-trustwallet[.]com" and pushed a trojanized version of the extension with a backdoor that's capable of harvesting users' wallet mnemonic phrases to the sub-domain "api.metrics-...
DarkSpectre Browser Extension Campaigns Exposed After Impacting 8.8 Million Users Worldwide
The threat actor behind two malicious browser extension campaigns, ShadyPanda and GhostPoster , has been attributed to a third attack campaign codenamed DarkSpectre that has impacted 2.2 million users of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. The activity is assessed to be the work of a Chinese threat actor that Koi Security is tracking under the moniker DarkSpectre . In all, the campaigns have collectively affected over 8.8 million users spanning a period of more than seven years. ShadyPanda was first unmasked by the cybersecurity company earlier this month as targeting all three browser users to facilitate data theft, search query hijacking, and affiliate fraud. It has been found to affect 5.6 million users, including 1.3 newly identified victims stemming from over 100 extensions flagged as connected to the same cluster. This also includes an Edge add-on named "New Tab - Customized Dashboard" that features a logic bomb that waits for three days prior to t...
CSA Issues Alert on Critical SmarterMail Bug Allowing Remote Code Execution
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has issued a bulletin warning of a maximum-severity security flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail email software that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-52691 , carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It relates to a case of arbitrary file upload that could enable code execution without requiring any authentication. "Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to upload arbitrary files to any location on the mail server, potentially enabling remote code execution," CSA said. Vulnerabilities of this kind allow the upload of dangerous file types that are automatically processed within an application's environment. This could pave the way for code execution if the uploaded file is interpreted and executed as code, as is the case with PHP files. In a hypothetical attack scenario, a bad actor could weaponize this vulnerability to place malici...
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Defender 0-Day ShieldBreak (CVE-2026-69414) nicht sauber gepatcht
Microsoft ist es nicht gelungen, eine Schwachstelle (RoguePlanet, CVE-2026-50656) sauber zu schließen. So dass der unter dem Alias Nightmare Eclipse auftretende Sicherheitsforscher einen ShieldBreak genannten Proof of Concept (PoC) Exploit veröffentlicht hat. Nun schreibt der Sicherheitsforscher, dass die Schwachstelle auch mit dem September 2026-Update ausgenutzt werden kann.
Broadcom sperrt öffentlichen Zugriff auf das VMware VDDK
Broadcom hat den öffentlichen Zugriff auf seine Webseite, von der das VMware VDDK heruntergeladen werden konnte, gesperrt. Wer das VDDK bereits herunter geladen hatte, kann es wohl weiter verwenden.
eRechnung: Stand Sept. 2026, Rechnung-Fertig 1.8.0 veröffentlicht
Von der DATEV war kürzlich zu vernehmen, dass viele Firmen in Deutschland bezüglich der eRechnung hinterherhängen. Zum 8. September 2026 hat Martin Pyka die Version 1.8.0 seiner eRechnungs-Anwendung "Rechnung-Fertig" veröffentlicht. Für mich war das Anlass, nochmals die Thematik zusammen zu fassen und einen Überblick zum Stand zu geben.
Windows September 2026 Patchday-Nachlese: Schwarzer Bildschirm, Secure Boot, Vertrauensstellung zur Domäne
Nachlese zum September 2026-Patchday bei Microsoft, bezogen auf Windows-Probleme. Es gibt Berichte, dass Windows 11 25H2-Clients die Vertrauensstellung zur Domäne verlieren. Einige Clients landen nach dem Update mit einem schwarzen Bildschirm. Und es gibt Fälle, bei denen das Secure Boot-Update schief geht und der Rechner nicht mehr bootet.
Anthropic KI-Forscher kündigt, und sieht mit anderen Spezialisten die Menschheit durch KI bedroht
Wird es in einigen Jahren keine Menschheit mehr geben, weil AI-Systeme übernommen haben? Dieses Szenario wurde bereits seit Jahren von einigen AI-Sicherheitsforschern skizziert. Dann hieß es "alles Übertreibung". Nun hat Jacob Coxon, ein KI-Forscher bei Anthropic gekündigt, und warnt "vor dem Ende der Menschheit durch KI". Mir ist zudem die Tage ein Podcast mit einem KI-Sicherheitsforscher untergekommen, der dieses Szenario ebenfalls nicht ausschließt.
September 2026-Updates fixen Mauszeiger- & Desktop-Wallpaper-Bugs und ARM App-Crashes
Kleine Nachlese zu den September 2026-Updates für Windows-Clients und -Server. Microsoft hat eine Reihe an Bugs, die von Vorgänger-Updates verursacht wurden, behoben. Neben dem bereits separat angesprochenen WSUS-Sync-Problem unter Windows Server sollen die Bugs beim Mauszeiger und Windows 11 Desktop-Hintergrund gefixt worden sein. Und App-Abstürze auf ARM-Geräten unter Windows 11 sowie der CompatTelRunner.exe-Crash unter Windows Server 2016 sind auch behoben.