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Microsoft Releases January 2025 Security Updates

Microsoft released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Microsoft products. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.  CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following and apply necessary updates: Microsoft Security Update Guide for January

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CISA Releases the JCDC AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook and Fact Sheet

Today, CISA released the JCDC AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook and Fact Sheet to foster operational collaboration among government, industry, and international partners and strengthen artificial intelligence (AI) cybersecurity. The playbook provides voluntary information-sharing processes that, if adopted, can help protect organizations from emerging AI threats.  Specifically, the playbook: Facilitates collaboration between federal agencies, private industry, international partners, and other stakeholders to raise awareness of AI cybersecurity risks and improve the resilience of AI systems. Guides JCDC…

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CISA and US and International Partners Publish Guidance on Priority Considerations in Product Selection for OT Owners and Operators

Today, CISA—along with U.S. and international partners—released joint guidance Secure by Demand: Priority Considerations for Operational Technology Owners and Operators when Selecting Digital Products. As part of CISA’s Secure by Demand series, this guidance focuses on helping customers identify manufacturers dedicated to continuous improvement and achieving a better cost balance, as well as how Operational Technology (OT) owners and operators should integrate secure by design elements into their procurement process. Critical infrastructure and industrial control systems…

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CISA Releases the Cybersecurity Performance Goals Adoption Report

Today, CISA released the Cybersecurity Performance Goals Adoption Report to highlight how adoption of Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs) benefits our nation’s critical infrastructure sectors. Originally released in October 2022, CISA’s CPGs are voluntary practices that critical infrastructure owners can take to protect themselves against cyber threats.  This report is based on analysis of 7,791 critical infrastructure organizations enrolled in CISA’s Vulnerability Scanning service from Aug. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2024. Data reveals that four critical…

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Ivanti Releases Security Updates for Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways

Ivanti released security updates to address vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-0282, CVE-2025-0283) in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways. A cyber threat actor could exploit CVE-2025-0282 to take control of an affected system. CISA has added CVE-2025-0282 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CISA urges organizations to hunt for any malicious activity, report any positive findings to CISA, and review the following for more information: Security Advisory Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy…

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CISA Adds One Vulnerability to the KEV Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-0282 Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. CISA urges organizations to apply mitigations as set forth in the CISA instructions linked below to include conducting hunt activities, taking remediation actions if applicable, and applying updates prior to returning a device to…

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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely abuses legitimate services at Apple and Google to force a variety of outbound communications to their users, including emails, automated phone calls and system-level messages sent to all signed-in devices. Image:…

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U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions

Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a communications specialist who was recently stationed in South Korea. One of several selfies on the Facebook page of Cameron Wagenius. Cameron John Wagenius was arrested near the Army base…

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Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity!

Image: Shutterstock, Dreamansions. KrebsOnSecurity.com turns 15 years old today! Maybe it’s indelicate to celebrate the birthday of a cybercrime blog that mostly publishes bad news, but happily many of 2024’s most engrossing security stories were about bad things happening to bad guys. It’s also an occasion to note that despite my publishing fewer stories than ever this past year, we somehow managed to attract near record levels of readership (thank you!). In case you missed…

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