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Lieferketten-Wurm mit eigenem MCP-Server verbreitet sich über GitHub
Eine neue Malware im npm-Ökosystem führt Lieferkettenattacken durch und stiehlt Geheimnisse für KI-Modelle sowie andere Anwendungen. Entwickler sollten aktuelle Abhängigkeiten auf verseuchte Pakete überprüfen.
- Malware-Entdeckung: Socket hat 19 infizierte npm-Pakete identifiziert, die durch Typosquatting Verbreitung finden.
- SANDWORM_MODE: Die Malware hatte ähnliche Aktivitäten wie Shai-Hulud-Würmer und sucht gezielt nach API-Keys und Secrets.
- Kill-Switch: Die Schadsoftware kann das Home-Verzeichnis des Opfers löschen, wenn sie den Zugriff auf GitHub- und npm-Konten verliert.
- MCP-Server: Ein neu eingesetzter Server kann sich als legitimer Anbieter ausgeben und über Prompt-Injections Secrets suchen lassen.
- Empfohlene Maßnahmen: Entwickler sollten Projekt-Abhängigkeiten überprüfen, Tokens erneuern und auf ungewöhnliche Änderungen in workflows achten.
- Risiko von Lieferkettenattacken: In Deutschland sind fast jedes dritte Unternehmen betroffen, mit npm als anfälliger Plattform.
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Microsoft Defender vs. MDR: What’s Missing?
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30 Years of Cybersecurity Leadership. Built For What’s Next.
For 30 years, WatchGuard has evolved with MSPs, adapting to threats, scaling globally, and delivering security built for what’s next.
Key Lessons from the Major Ransomware Attacks in Recent Months
Learn from the ransomware attacks in recent months and find out how to protect your company against advanced threats.
When Detection Isn’t Enough: Why Modern Cybersecurity Demands Real Response
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1,500% Surge in New Malware: Why MSPs Must Act Now
WatchGuard Technologies reports a 1,548% malware surge, urging MSPs to adopt proactive, unified defenses against faster-evolving cyber threats.
Why Browser-Based Attacks Are Becoming a Major Endpoint Risk
Find out why browsers have become an entry point for attacks and how to effectively protect your endpoints.
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Hacker kompromittieren immer schneller
Hacker knackt 600 Firewalls in einem Monat – mit KI
Bitcoin-Milliarden von Raubkopie-Portal im Visier der Justiz
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Ongoing Widespread Credential Harvesting Campaign Targets VPN Providers
Introduction At the turn of the year, we were alerted to a doppelganger domain impersonating WatchGuard’s Mobile VPN with SSL, delivering a malicious spoofed client to steal credentials. Navigating directly to the doppelganger domain resulted in a benign informational WatchGuard VPN page. However…
New Kyber Ransomware Posts U.S. Defense Contractor As First Victim
A new ransomware operation known as Kyber has emerged. Their first and current only posted victim is L3Harris, a major defense contractor in the United States. The operators have provided a timer that ends around 6 PM EST on Sunday, October 19. The group claims to have stolen over 300 GB of data…
dAn0n Hacker Group Reemerges as White Lock Ransomware
The first samples of the new(ish) White Lock ransomware began emerging towards the end of September. The earliest compilation time stamp of the four samples currently on MalwareBazaar, Triage, and VirusTotal is September 29, 2025. It has all the hallmarks of traditional crypto-ransomware: kills anti…
Ransomware Tracker (Entry #152): dAn0n
Entry: https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-security-hub/ransomware-tracker/dan0n The dAn0n Hacker Group, or dAn0n, was first observed in the Spring of 2024. They posted their first victim on their simultaneous dark web and clear net data leak site on March 26. The dAn0n group is often lumped in with…
Global Surge of VPN Exploits: Brute-Force, Blast-RADIUS and Password Spray
The past 18 months have been shaped by a surge in brute-force attacks and critical vulnerabilities (CVEs) targeting VPNs, authentication services, privilege elevation, and denial of service across the network security landscape. This timeline outlines key advisories and CVEs beginning with Cisco…
4 Major UK CyberAttacks and the Year Isn’t Over Yet
Cyberattacks have become the new normal, but 2025 has been particularly brutal for UK businesses. We’re not even through the year, and already four major incidents have shaken industries, disrupted communities, and forced us to think harder about how we deal with cyber threats. Here’s what’s…
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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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EWS-Apps und deren Nutzung vor der EWS-Abschaltung identifizieren
Microsoft ist dabei, Exchange Web Services (EWS) in den Ruhestand zu schicken. Dieser Vorgang beginnt im Oktober 2026 und endet mit einer vollständigen Abschaltung von EWS im Jahr 2027. Ich hatte dies kürzlich im Beitrag Exchange Online: Zeitplan für das Ende von EWS veröffentlicht erwähnt. Nun hat Microsoft einen Beitrag veröffentlicht, wie Administratoren von Exchange Online-Tenants Apps, die EWS verwenden identifizieren und das Problem beheben können.
Microsoft 365 Local und Azure Local verfügbar
Microsoft bietet seinen Kunden, die eine Azure Local-Infrastuktur betreiben, auch ein Microsoft 365 Local an. Also ein Szenario, bei dem die Office 365-Apps auf der lokalen Azure-Struktur laufen.
Intellexa Alliance: Predator-Spyware für Apple-Geräte (Kamera, Mikrofon)
Von der Intellexa Alliance wurde die Spyware Predator entwickelt. Diese kann weiterhin Nutzer von Apple-Geräten unbemerkt per Kamera und Mikrofon ausspionieren. Jamf Threat Alert hat mir die Tage einige Details aus einer Analyse zukommen lassen.
GFF-Klage gegen zentrale Gesundheitsdatenspeicherung aufgenommen
Das Forschungsdatenzentrum sammelt zentral die Gesundheitsdaten aller 73 Millionen gesetzlich Krankenversicherten, während Privatversicherte mit ihren Daten nicht erfasst werden. Die Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) hat nun mit Unterstützung des Chaos Computer Clubs die bisher ruhende Klage gegen diese Speicherung der Gesundheitsdaten wieder aufgenommen.
Firefox 148.0 mit AI-Killswitch; Firefox 115.33.0 ESR als letztes Update für Windows 7
Die Tage hatte ich berichtet, dass der Mozilla Firefox 115 ESR unter Windows 7 / 8.1 ausläuft. Nun ist mit Firefox 115.33.0 ESR als letztes Update für diese Betriebssysteme freigegeben worden. Zudem hat Mozilla den Firefox 148.0 mit AI-Killswitch freigegeben. Und es gibt ein Update auf den Firefox 140.8 ESR.
Sammlung von KI-Splittern und -Torheiten (Feb. 2026)
Die Tage sind mir einige Infosplitter rund um KI untergekommen, die ich in einem Sammelbeitrag veröffentliche. KI-Anbieter Anthopic beklagt sich, dass chinesische Konkurrenten seine Modellinhalte durch Destillationsangriffe "absaugen", um eigene Modelle zu verbessern. Ein KI-Sicherheitsbeauftragte bei Meta hat sich mit OpenClaw ihr Postfach löschen lassen. Google sperrt Nutzer bei Gravity wegen OpenClaw-Nutzung aus, und so weiter. Der tägliche Irrsinn.