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Cut Through the Noise: Learn How to Spot the Threats That Matter
Discover how MDR and endpoint security help cut alert fatigue, improve threat detection, and enable faster response to today's stealthiest attacks.
Why Human Behavior Has Become Cybersecurity's Fastest-Changing Attack Surface
2026 Cyber Hygiene report: Cyber risk now hinges on employee behavior. Secure, low-friction tools and human risk metrics are key to reducing modern threats.
AI Innovation Challenge: Help Shape the Future of Cybersecurity
WatchGuard's $10M AI Challenge funds MSP ideas with up to $100K each, with a VIP trip to Impact North America for the Grand Prize winner.
The Future of Secure Remote Access Starts with Zero Trust
Discover why Zero Trust is replacing traditional VPNs and how continuous verification helps secure remote access in today's hybrid work environments.
Access to Your Systems No Longer Has Borders: Take Control of Who Gets In
As the number of clients and access points continues to grow, so does complexity for MSPs. Simplify identity security without adding more tools.
Autonomous AI Accelerates Cyberattacks and Shrinks Response Time
AI is accelerating cyberattacks and shrinking incident response windows. Learn how MSPs can adapt to this new threat landscape.
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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
WatchGuard Launches New High-Performance Firebox Appliances to Secure Modern Enterprise Networks
New Firebox appliances deliver ultra-high-speed security performance, enterprise resiliency, and simplified operations for MSPs, Campus, and distributed enterprise environments
SMBs Hit a Cybersecurity Breaking Point as 91% Fear AI-Driven Attacks, Driving Shift to MSP-Led Security Models, WatchGuard Finds
New global research shows internal teams can’t keep pace, fueling demand for always-on, outcome-driven security services
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Schwachstellen managen: Die besten Vulnerability-Management-Tools
Security-Infotainment: Die besten Hacker-Dokus
Der Kaufratgeber für Breach & Attack Simulation Tools
Google entdeckt erstmals KI-basierten Zero-Day-Exploit
Cybersicherheitsvorschriften: So erfüllen Sie Ihre Compliance-Anforderungen
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CISA Incident Lessons, Amazon Q Flaw, and Giga Wiper
In Episode 378 of The 443 Security Simplified, Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner examine lessons from a recent CISA security incident, a vulnerability affecting the Amazon Q Developer extension for Visual Studio Code, and Microsoft research into a destructive malware platform known as Giga Wiper…
The Spec Is Back, But Nobody Told Security
What happens when AI makes Waterfall agile? A few weeks ago, I was sitting with one of our engineering VPs while he walked me through his workflow in Cursor. Before writing a single line of code, he spent a meaningful amount of time using Cursor to craft a feature specification, a detailed natural…
Why CVE Grading Still Matters for Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability management has never been just about finding flaws. It is about understanding which flaws matter most, which ones attackers are likely to exploit, and which ones security teams need to prioritize before they become a real business risk. That is why CVEs, CVSS scores, and vulnerability…
TimbreStealer Malware Targets Mexico Companies with Advanced Evasion Techniques
WatchGuard telemetry identified a campaign associated to TimbreStealer, which is known to target companies based in Mexico. Some behaviors are similar to a previous campaign documented by Cisco Talos in 2024, which has sophisticated techniques to evade detection and difficult analysis. One more new…
NoisyS0cks: Undocumented SOCKS5 Pivot Framework Giving Ransomware Affiliates a Foothold Inside Networks
The WatchGuard Attestation Team has uncovered an undocumented pivot framework written in Golang that opens a Smux-multiplexed SOCKS5-style pivot channel on each compromised host using one of two interchangeable transports: KCP-over-UDP with DTLS obfuscation or Noise-over-TCP with TLS obfuscation…
Iran-Affiliated Cyber-Espionage Against Global High-Value Organizations
The WatchGuard Geopolitical Cyber Report Iran-Affiliated Cyber-Espionage Against Global High-Value Organizations MuddyWater (Seedworm) DLL Side-Loading Campaign Following the U.S.–Iran–Israel Conflict Geopolitical insight, threat intelligence, and practical cyber-risk guidance for the moments when…
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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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Patchday: Windows Server-Updates (14. Juli 2026)
Zum 14. Juli 2026 (zweiter Dienstag im Monat, Patchday bei Microsoft) wurden verschiedene kumulative Updates für die unterstützten Versionen von Windows Server freigegeben. Nachfolgend habe ich die bereitgestellten Updates samt einigen Details für diese Windows Server-Versionen herausgezogen.
Patchday: Windows 10/11 Updates (14. Juli 2026)
Am 14. Juli (zweiter Dienstag im Monat, Patchday bei Microsoft) hat Microsoft kumulative Updates für die noch unterstützten Client-Betriebssystem-Versionen von Windows 10 (mit ESU-Lizenz) und Windows 11 veröffentlicht. Hier einige Details zu diesen Updates, die Schwachstellen sowie Probleme beheben sollen.
Exchange Server: Sicherheitsupdates 14. Juli 2026
Kurze Information für Administratoren von Microsoft Exchange Systemen. Microsoft hat zum 14. Juli 2026 Sicherheitsupdates (SU) für "Juli 2026" veröffentlicht. Diese Updates stehen für Exchange Server 2016 / 2019 (ESU) sowie für Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) zur Verfügung. Das Juli 2026 SU schließt einige Schwachstellen und bringt eine kleine Änderung, die in einem Suppport-Beitrag beschrieben sind.
Microsoft SharePoint 2016/2019 ab 14. Juli 2026 EOL
IT-Spezialisten und Administratoren haben den heutigen Juli 2026-Patchday sicherlich im Kalender. Blog-Leser Markus S. hat mich gestern daran erinnert, dass Microsofts SharePoint 2016-Server am heutigen 14. Juli 2026 letztmalig Sicherheitsupdates erhält. Denn SharePoint 2016 erreicht heute sein "End of Life" und bekommt auch keinen Support mehr. Aber auch SharePoint 2019 erreicht sein EOL zum Juli 2026-Patchday.
Bambu Lab 3D-Drucker-Ärger; Klage gegen Epson wegen geplanter Obsoleszenz
Ich packe mal zwei Meldungen, die mir in letzter Zeit unter die Augen gekommen sind, in einen Sammelbeitrag. Bambu verklagt einen Entwickler, der ein beschränkendes Firmware-Update für einen Bambu Lab 3D-Drucker aushebelte. Und Epson wird weltweit erstmals in Frankreich wegen geplanter Obsoleszenz verklagt.
Was ist mit Telegram los? Links gebrochen
Irgend etwas scheint beim Messenger-Dienst Telegram passiert zu sein. Seit wenigen Stunden sind Links auf Telegram-Inhalte tot. Die betreffende Domain für diese Telegram-Links ist auf einen Status gesetzt worden, der die Erreichbarkeit per DNS verhindert. Und mir liegt eine Meldung vor, dass Pavel Durov verhaftet worden sei. Durov ist der Entwickler und Betreiber von Telegram. Hier einige Informationen, was ich bisher herausgefunden habe.