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Cyberthreat News is a weekly update of cybersecurity events impacting businesses across industries. From data breaches and ransomware to threats that can disrupt critical business infrastructures, every organization faces a growing array of threats. With clear protocols and an effective incident response plan, organizations can mitigate these risks to protect their brands and customers.

Cyberattacks are difficult to anticipate or predict, unlike the competitive threats companies can see from market-share shifts or personal safety threats aimed at well-known public figures. These stealthy attacks can originate from nation-states, terrorist groups, third-party vendors and even insiders.

With the global attack surface widening due to cloud adoption and remote work environments, attackers are finding new ways to get into internal networks and access data. From phishing and social engineering to password cracking and AI-driven fuzzing, threat actors are using an arsenal of tools to gain unauthorized access to data, systems and devices.

This week, Rapid7 disclosed a critical Twonky Server flaw that allows adversaries to gain unauthenticated admin access and use hardcoded Blowfish keys to decrypt admin credentials. In addition, the North Korean Lazarus APT group deployed a remote access trojan dubbed ScoreMathTea to target defense industrial base entities and leverages advanced evasion techniques such as loading payloads into memory for persistence and a P2P C2 communication protocol for evasion.

In the face of these evolving threats, strategic cyber threat intelligence (CTI) can help organizations stay ahead of them. By transforming raw data into actionable intelligence, CTI can improve detection models, help security teams identify vulnerabilities before they become exploits and support smarter decision-making for stronger defenses.