BotNet News

Cyberthreat News is a weekly publication that details current and emerging cybersecurity threats, trends, vulnerabilities and mitigations. The news helps you build and maintain your defenses against sophisticated threat actors.

Defending the cyber landscape is everyone’s responsibility: individuals, families, small businesses, large organizations, local governments, utilities and federal agencies. All must work together to prevent attacks, mitigate damage, and shut down attacks as quickly as possible.

Recent cyberattacks show that threat actors no longer rely on isolated exploits. Instead, they use multiple tactics to disrupt services and steal valuable data. This trend reflects how attack surfaces have expanded, and the importance of protecting against a broad range of vulnerabilities.

For example, the SAP NetWeaver zero-day and Microsoft SharePoint exploits reveal how a single flaw can expose hundreds of organizations at once. This type of attack highlights the need to patch enterprise software promptly, especially when attackers are actively scanning and weaponizing flaws in real time.

Many of the week’s top cyberattacks reveal that attackers are using stolen credentials more often. Campaigns against M&S, Ukraine government users, Snowflake customers and truck manufacturer Scania illustrate how stolen third-party credentials can enable quick access without triggering alarms.

These attacks also highlight the growing impact of ransomware and broader malware like remote access Trojans (RATs) and dropper Trojans that spread to additional apps, devices or systems on a network or device. These tools steal usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and more, or run complex worms that automatically replicate and spread across networks.