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Nextcloud: Codeschmuggel durch Lücke in Flow möglich

Acronis Cyber Protect: Zig Schwachstellen gefährden Unternehmenssoftware

Avira-Virenschutz ermöglicht Codeschmuggel

CISA warnt vor Angriffen auf Hikvision, Rockwell Automation und Apple-Produkte

Zwei kritische Root-Lücken bedrohen Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

IT-Einbrüche bei asgoodasnew und Kirstein: Mögliche Angriffswelle auf Oxid eShop

NIS2: Warum sich so wenige Unternehmen registrieren

Bezahlen ohne Google: Neues Konsortium will Custom-ROM-Hürden beseitigen

OpenAI startet Vorschau auf KI-Schwachstellenscanner Codex Security

Microsoft Teams bekommt Bot-Erkennung

Nextcloud: Codeschmuggel durch Lücke in Flow möglich

secIT 2026: Ein LKA-Cyberermittler plaudert aus dem Nähkästchen

Demystifying the Alphabet Soup That Is Detection and Response

Tradeshow acronyms overwhelm meetings, derailing decisions. In Detection & Response all systems share one goal: quickly detect threats and respond effectively.

How to Scale as an MSP by Combining Firewalls and Integrated Security Services

Find out why combining firewalls with integrated services is key to scaling your MSP security offering without adding complexity.

The Machine War: Why MSPs Must Move from AI-Assistance to Autonomy

Find out how AI is executing autonomous attacks and why defenses need to respond at the same pace to stay protected.

Boost Security Strategy: Join WatchGuard Webinar on Automation vs. Augmentation

Join this webinar to learn how automation and human expertise combine to strengthen cybersecurity, boost efficiency, and scale protection.

WatchGuard Wins CRN 5-Star Award for the 10th Year, Celebrating 30 Years

WatchGuard Technologies wins CRN 5-Star Award for the 10th year in the 2026 Partner Program Guide, celebrating 30 years of empowering MSP partners.

Microsoft Defender vs. MDR: What’s Missing?

Microsoft Defender detects threats, but without 24/7 response gaps remain. Learn why MSPs add WatchGuard MDR to turn alerts into fast action.

WatchGuard Marks 30 Years of Setting the MSP Security Standard

Cybersecurity leader has helped MSPs reduce complexity, scale protection, and profitably grow through every market shift

Over 1500% Increase in New, Unique Malware Highlights Growing Security Complexity, according to WatchGuard Biannual Threat Report

MSPs must shift from reactive security to proactive threat intelligence and unified protection

WatchGuard Open MDR Gives MSPs a Faster Path to Enterprise-Grade, High-Margin Managed Security Services Across Existing Customer Environments

Open MDR delivers unified visibility and rapid response across WatchGuard and third-party environments, removing the constraints of single-vendor security models and accelerating MSP time to market

WatchGuard Delivers a Simple Path to Modern Zero Trust Security

A decade of zero trust complexity finally simplified through a unified approach built for MSPs and organizations of every size

Strong, Quiet, Predictable. WatchGuard Delivers Total Protection Without Operational Burden in MITRE ER7 Evaluation.

WatchGuard delivers full coverage with almost no noise in MITRE ATT&CK ER7 testing, giving MSPs stronger protection, faster response, and lower operational burden.

Zero Trust Emerges as Top Growth Opportunity at WatchGuard Partner Roadshow

High partner turnout and strong session engagement signal accelerating demand for advanced security strategies across global MSP market

Tarnung als Taktik: Warum Ransomware-Angriffe raffinierter werden

NIS-2: Tausende reißen BSI-Frist und riskieren Strafen

Europa im Visier von Cyber-Identitätsdieben

Europol schließt riesigen Markt für gestohlene Daten

Europol: Großer Markt für gestohlene Daten geschlossen

Studie: Hacker legen Betrieb bei vielen Unternehmen lahm

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…

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...

SharePoint: Authentifizierung per One-Time Passcode läuft aus

Kurze Information für Administratoren von SharePoint-Installationen, die auf die Authentifizierung der Nutzer per One-Time Passcode (SPO OTP) setzen. Microsoft hat angekündigt, dass diese Funktion ab Mai 2026 ausläuft. Man will bei SharePoint zukünftig auf Microsoft Entra B2B setzen.

WhatsApp-Phishing: Gibt es ein Leck bei Buchungsplattform onepagebooking.com?

Ich stelle mal die Beobachtung eines Blog-Lesers samt seinen Informationen hier im Blog ein. Es geht um die Buchungsplattform onepagebooking.com, die von verschiedenen Hotels genutzt wird. Es gibt einen Verdacht auf ein Datenleck, da der Leser kurz nach Buchung gezielte Phishing-Nachrichten zum Abfischen von Zahlungsdaten bekam.

EuGH: Kommt Banken-Haftung für Phishing-Opfer?

Derzeit läuft vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof (EuGH) ein Verfahren eines Phishing-Opfers aus Polen gegen eine polnische Bank. Der Generalanwalt des EuGH empfiehlt in seiner Stellungnahme eine Entschädigungspflicht von Banken bei Phishing, falls nicht autorisierte Transaktionen erfolgt sind.

Alibaba KI-Experiment: KI schürft plötzlich Kryptogeld

AI-Forscher von Alibaba mussten eine kuriose, aber auch beängstigende Erfahrung machen, als sie ein LLM testweise eine Weile laufen ließen. Die KI war aus ihrer Umgebung ausgebrochen und hatte einen Weg gefunden, um über einen Reverse SSH-Tunnel mit GPUs in der Alibaba-Cloud zu kommunizieren. Dort ließ die KI Kryptogeld schürfen, im guten Glauben, damit das Modell zu optimieren.

Jedes 2. Unternehmen stoppt KI-Projekte wegen Sicherheits- und Governance-Bedenken

CoreView hat in einem aktuellen Bericht details zu KI-Projekten in Unternehmen veröffentlicht. 51 Prozent der Unternehmen weltweit haben KI-basierte Änderungen in Microsoft 365 aufgrund von Sicherheits- oder Governance-Bedenken rückgängig gemacht (in Deutschland waren es immer noch 46 % der Unternehmen). Gleichzeitig sehen knapp drei Viertel (70 %) der IT-Verantwortlichen in einem KI-gesteuerten Management enorme Vorteile für die eigenen Prozesse.

Führt Microsoft demnächst MS 365 A7-Pläne für AI-Bots ein und lässt Firmen zahlen?

Ich habe es lange im Hinterkopf gehabt und eine vage Erinnerung, bereits vor einigen Monaten von Mary Foley gelesen zu haben, dass Microsoft darüber nachdenkt, die Nutzung von AI-Agenten  für Kunden Lizenz-pflichtig zu machen. Die Tage gab es dann Berichte, dass Microsoft eine E7-Lizenzstufe als Abonnement einführen könnte, bei dem pro KI-Agent eine monatliche Lizenzgebühr fällig wird. Die Agenten werden dann wie User in der Lizenz berücksichtigt.