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Sharpening the Focus on Product Requirements and Cybersecurity Risks: Updating Foundational Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers

Over the past few months, NIST has been revising and updating Foundational Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers (NIST IR 8259 Revision 1 Initial Public Draft), which describes recommended pre-market and post-market activities for manufacturers to develop products that meet their customers’ cybersecurity needs and expectations. Thank you so much for the thoughtful comments and feedback throughout this process; 400+ participants across industry, consumer organizations, academia, federal agencies, and researchers shared feedback in both the December…

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CISA and UK NCSC Release Joint Guidance for Securing OT Systems

CISA, in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre, and other international partners has released new joint cybersecurity guidance: Creating and Maintaining a Definitive View of Your Operational Technology (OT) Architecture. Building on the recent Foundations for OT Cybersecurity: Asset Inventory Guidance for Owners and Operators, this guidance explains how organizations can leverage data sources, such as asset inventories and manufacturer-provided resources like software bill of materials to establish…

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CISA Strengthens Commitment to SLTT Governments

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that it has transitioned to a new model to better equip state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments to strengthen shared responsibility nationwide. CISA is supporting our SLTT partners with access to grant funding, no-cost tools, and cybersecurity expertise to be resilient and lead at the local level.  CISA’s cooperative agreement with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) will reach its planned end on September 30, 2025.…

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CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices

Today, CISA issued Emergency Directive ED 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices to address vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) and Cisco Firepower devices. CISA has added vulnerabilities CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.  The Emergency Directive requires federal agencies to identify, analyze, and mitigate potential compromises immediately. Agencies must: Identify all instances of Cisco ASA and Cisco Firepower devices in operation (all versions). Collect and transmit memory…

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Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms

U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments from victims. The charges came as Jubair and an alleged co-conspirator appeared in a London court to face accusations of hacking into and extorting several large U.K. retailers, the London transit system, and healthcare providers in the United…

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CISA Releases Advisory on Lessons Learned from an Incident Response Engagement

Today, CISA released a cybersecurity advisory detailing lessons learned from an incident response engagement following the detection of potential malicious activity identified through security alerts generated by the agency’s endpoint detection and response tool.  This advisory, CISA Shares Lessons Learned from an Incident Response Engagement, highlights takeaways that illuminate the urgent need for timely patching, comprehensive incident response planning, and proactive threat monitoring to mitigate risks from similar vulnerabilities. The advisory also outlines the tactics,…

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Widespread Supply Chain Compromise Impacting npm Ecosystem

CISA is releasing this Alert to provide guidance in response to a widespread software supply chain compromise involving the world’s largest JavaScript registry, npmjs.com. A self-replicating worm—publicly known as “Shai-Hulud”—has compromised over 500 packages.[i] After gaining initial access, the malicious cyber actor deployed malware that scanned the environment for sensitive credentials. The cyber actor then targeted GitHub Personal Access Tokens (PATs) and application programming interface (API) keys for cloud services, including Amazon Web Services (AWS),…

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SonicWall Releases Advisory for Customers after Security Incident

SonicWall released a security advisory to assist their customers with protecting systems impacted by the MySonicWall cloud backup file incident. SonicWall’s investigation found that a malicious actor performed a series of brute force techniques against their MySonicWall.com web portal to gain access to a subset of customers’ preference files stored in their cloud backups. While credentials within the files were encrypted, the files also included information that actors can use to gain access to customers’…

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CISA Releases Malware Analysis Report on Malicious Listener Targeting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile Systems

Today, CISA released a Malware Analysis Report detailing the functionality of two sets of malware obtained from an organization compromised by cyber threat actors exploiting CVE-2025-4427 and CVE-2025-4428 in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (Ivanti EPMM).   The Malware Analysis Report, Malicious Listener for Ivanti EPMM Systems, provides guidance to help organizations detect and mitigate these threats, including indicators of compromise and YARA and SIGMA rules. Mitigations include highlighting the need to upgrade Ivanti EPMM systems to…

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Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on GitHub, experts warn. The malware, which briefly infected multiple code packages from the security vendor CrowdStrike, steals and publishes even more credentials every time an infected package is installed. Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(Dune) The novel malware strain is being dubbed Shai-Hulud — after the name for the giant sandworms…

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