Proxy botnets, Office zero-days, MongoDB ransoms, AI hijacking and new threats

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Every week brings new discoveries, attacks, and defenses that shape the state of cybersecurity. Some threats are stopped immediately, while others go unnoticed until they cause real damage.

Sometimes a single update, exploit, or mistake can change the way you think about risk and protection. Every incident shows how defenders adapt and how quickly attackers try to get ahead.

This week’s recap brings together the most important moments in one place, so you can stay informed and ready for what’s next.

⚡ Threat of the Week

Google suspends IPIDEA residential proxy network — Google crippled IPIDEA, a large residential proxy network of user devices used as the last mile link in the cyber attack chain. According to the tech giant, these networks not only allow malicious attackers to hide malicious traffic, but also expose users who register their devices to further attacks. Residential IP addresses in the United States, Canada, and Europe are considered the most desirable. Google took legal action to seize or sinkhole domains used as command and control (C2) for devices registered on the IPIDEA proxy network, cutting off carriers’ ability to route traffic through the compromised systems. This disruption is estimated to have reduced the pool of devices available to IPIDEA by millions. Proxy software may come pre-installed on devices or be installed voluntarily by users lured by the promise of monetizing available Internet bandwidth. Once a device is registered with a residential proxy network, the operator sells access to the device to the customer. A number of proxy and VPN brands sold as separate businesses were controlled by the same attackers behind IPIDEA. Proxy networks also promoted several SDKs as app monetization tools, and once a user device was integrated, they quietly turned it into a proxy exit node without the user’s knowledge or consent. IPIDEA has also been implicated in large-scale brute force attacks targeting VPN and SSH services dating back to early 2024. The team at Device and Browser Info has since published a list of all proxy exit IPs linked to IPIDEA.

🔔 Top News

Microsoft releases patch that exploits Office flaw — Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security patch for a high-severity Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in the attack. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-21509 and has a CVSS score of 7.8 out of 10.0. This is described as a bypass of Microsoft Office security features. “Microsoft Office’s reliance on untrusted input in security decisions may allow an unauthorized attacker to locally bypass security features,” the tech giant said in an advisory. “This update addresses a vulnerability that bypasses OLE mitigations in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office that protect users from vulnerable COM/OLE controls.” Microsoft did not provide details about the nature and scope of the attack leveraging CVE-2026-21509.
Ivanti deploys patch that exploits EPMM flaw — Ivanti has released a security update that addresses two security flaws affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that were exploited in a zero-day attack. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-1281 and CVE-2026-1340, are related to code injection and allow attackers to execute unauthenticated remote code. “At the time of disclosure, we recognize that the number of customers whose solutions have been exploited is extremely limited,” Ivanti said in its advisory, adding that there is not enough information to provide “reliable atomic indicators” about the threat actor’s tactics. As of January 30, 2026, a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available. “EPMM is an endpoint management solution for mobile devices, so the impact if an attacker compromises an EPMM server is significant,” Rapid7 said. “An attacker may have access to personally identifiable information (PII) about mobile device users, such as names and email addresses, but also mobile device information such as phone numbers, GPS information, and other sensitive unique identifying information.”
Poland links cyber attack on power system to static tundra — Poland’s Computer Emergency Response Team has uncovered a coordinated cyberattack targeting more than 30 wind and solar power plants, private companies in the manufacturing industry, and large combined heat and power plants (CHPs) that provide heat to almost 500,000 customers in the country. CERT Polska said the incident occurred on December 29, 2025, and described the attack as devastating. The agency attributed this attack to a threat cluster called Static Tundra, which is also tracked as Berserk Bear, Blue Kraken, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfly, Energetic Bear, Ghost Blizzard (formerly Bromine), and Havex. Static Tundra is assessed to be associated with the Center 16 unit of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Previous reports from ESET and Dragos linked this attack with medium confidence to a group with tactical overlap with a cluster called Sandworm. The group has demonstrated a deep understanding of power grid equipment and operations, high proficiency in industrial protocols used in power systems, and the ability to develop custom malware and wiper tools across IT and OT environments. This activity also reflects the adversary’s understanding of the dependencies between substation operations and operations within the electrical system. “Taking over these devices requires more than just understanding the technical flaws,” Dragos said. “This requires knowledge of that specific implementation. The attackers demonstrated this by successfully compromising RTU at approximately 30 sites, suggesting that they were mapping common configurations and operational patterns for systematic exploitation.”
LLMJacking campaign targets public AI endpoints — Cybercriminals are searching, hijacking, and monetizing exposed LLM and MCP endpoints at scale. Dubbed “Operation Bizarre Bazaar,” the campaign targets exposed or unsecured AI endpoints with the goal of hijacking system resources, reselling API access, exfiltrating data, and lateral movement to internal systems. “This threat is different from traditional API exploitation because a compromised LLM endpoint incurs significant costs (inference is expensive), can expose an organization’s sensitive data, and provides opportunities for lateral movement,” Pillar Security said. Organizations running self-hosted LLM infrastructure (Ollama, vLLM, local AI implementations) or deploying MCP servers for AI integration are facing active targeting. Common misconfigurations that are being exploited include Ollama running on port 11434 without authentication, OpenAI compatible APIs on port 8000, MCP servers accessible without access controls, development/staging AI infrastructure with public IPs, and production chatbot endpoints without authentication or rate limiting. Access to infrastructure is advertised on our marketplace, which provides access to over 30 LLMs. The company, called silver(.)inc, is hosted on bulletproof infrastructure in the Netherlands and sells on Discord and Telegram, with payments made in cryptocurrencies or PayPal.
Chinese threat actors use PeckBirdy framework — China-aligned threat actors have been conducting cyberespionage attacks since 2023 using a cross-platform, multi-functional JScript framework called PeckBirdy, powering their efforts with modular backdoors in two separate campaigns targeting gambling sites and government agencies. The command and control (C2) framework, written in Microsoft’s JScript legacy language, is intended for flexible deployment by allowing execution in multiple environments, including web browsers, MSHTA, WScript, Classic ASP, Node JS, and .NET (ScriptControl).

️‍🔥 Trending CVE

New vulnerabilities surface every day, and attackers move quickly. Checking and patching early will keep your system resilient.

Here are this week’s most significant flaws to check first: CVE-2026-24423 (SmarterTools SmarterMail), CVE-2026-1281, CVE-2026-1340 (Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile), CVE-2025-40536, CVE-2025-40537, CVE-2025-40551, CVE-2025-40552, CVE-2025-40553 (SolarWinds Web Help Desk), CVE-2026-22709 (vm2), CVE-2026-1470, CVE-2026-0863 (n8n), CVE-2026-24858 (Fortinet FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiProxy, FortiWeb), CVE-2026-21509 (Microsoft Office), CVE-2025-30248, CVE-2025-26465 (Western Digital), CVE-2025-56005 (PLY), CVE-2026-23864 (React Server Components), CVE-2025-14756 (TP-Link), CVE-2026-0755 (Google gemini-mcp-tool), CVE-2025-9142 (Check Point Harmony SASE), CVE-2026-1504 (Google Chrome), CVE-2025-12556 (IDIS IP Camera), CVE-2026-0818 (Mozilla Thunderbird), CCVE-2025-52598, CVE-2025-52599, CVE-2025-52600, CVE-2025-52601, CVE-2025-8075 (Hanwha Wisenet camera), CVE-2025-33217, CVE-2025-33218, CVE-2025-33219, CVE-2025-33220 (NVIDIA GPU Display Driver), CVE-2025-0921 (Iconics Suite), CVE-2025-26385 (Johnson Controls), and SRC-2025-0001, SRC-2025-0002, SRC-2025-0003, SRC-2025-0004 (Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server).

📰 Around the cyber world

Exposed C2 Server Reveals BYOB Infrastructure — Cybersecurity researchers discovered Open Directory on a command and control (C2) server at IP address 38.255.43(.)60 on port 8081. This directory was found to be serving a malicious payload related to the Build Your Own Botnet (BYOB) framework. “Open Directory included a complete deployment of the BYOB post-exploitation framework, including a dropper, stager, payload, and multiple post-exploitation modules,” Hunt.io said. “Analysis of harvested samples revealed a modular, multi-stage infection chain designed to establish persistent remote access across Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.” The first stage is a dropper that implements multiple layers of obfuscation to evade signature-based detection, while simultaneously fetching and executing intermediate loaders. The intermediate loader performs its own set of security checks before deploying the main Remote Access Trojan (RAT) payload for reconnaissance and persistence. It also has features such as privilege escalation, keystroke logging, process termination, email collection, and network traffic inspection. Additional infrastructure associated with threat actors has been found to host cryptocurrency mining payloads, indicating two approaches to compromising endpoints with different payloads.
Phantom Enigma resurfaces with new tactics — The attackers behind the Operation Phantom Enigma campaign, which targeted Brazilian users to steal bank accounts in early 2025, resurfaced with similar attacks in fall 2025. According to Positive Technologies, the attack involved sending a phishing email with a billing-related theme to trick ordinary users into clicking on a malicious link, downloading a malicious MSI installer, and installing a malicious Google Chrome extension called EnigmaBanker on the victim’s browser to collect credentials. and sends them to the attacker’s server. The malware is designed to start the browser in debug mode and then execute JavaScript code that imports malicious extensions via the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). Meanwhile, attacks targeting enterprises drop installers for legitimate remote access software such as PDQ Connect, MeshAgent, ScreenConnect, and Syncro RMM. The attackers behind this campaign are suspected to be based in Latin America.
Attackers exploit stolen AWS credentials to target AWS WorkMail — Threat actors are leveraging compromised Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials to deploy phishing and spam infrastructure using AWS WorkMail, circumventing anti-fraud controls typically enforced by AWS Simple Email Service (SES). “This allows attackers to leverage Amazon’s strong sender reputation to impersonate a valid corporate entity that can send email directly from victim-owned AWS infrastructure,” Rapid7 said. “The generation of minimal service attribute telemetry also makes it difficult to distinguish threat actor activity from routine activity. AWS credentials are exposed, potentially putting organizations with permissive Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies at risk. Organizations without guardrails or oversight around WorkMail and SES configurations are especially at risk.”
Malicious VS Code extension delivers stealing malware — A malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension (‘Angular-studio.ng-angular-extension’) has been identified in Open VSX that pretends to be a tool for the Angular web development framework, but includes built-in functionality that is activated when an HTML or TypeScript file is opened. It is designed to execute encrypted JavaScript that retrieves the next stage payload from the URL embedded in the Solana wallet’s notes field using a technique called EtherHiding by constructing an RPC request to the Solana mainnet. The infection chain is designed to skip execution on systems that match Russian locale indicators. “This pattern is commonly observed in malware originating from or associated with Russian-speaking actors, and is deployed to avoid domestic prosecution,” Secure Annex said. This architecture has several advantages. Blockchain immutability allows configuration data to be retained indefinitely, allowing an attacker to update the payload URL without changing the published extension. The final payload deployed as part of the attack is stealer malware that can siphon credentials from the developer’s machine, perform cryptocurrency theft, establish persistence, and exfiltrate data to a server obtained from Google Calendar events.
Threat actors exploit critical flaw in Adobe Commerce — Threat actors continue to exploit critical flaws in the Adobe Commerce and Magento open source platforms (CVE-2025-54236, CVSS score: 9.1) to compromise 216 websites around the world in one campaign and deploy web shells to Magento sites in Canada and Japan to gain persistent access in another campaign. “While these incidents have not been assessed to be part of a single coordinated campaign, all incidents indicate that this vulnerability is being actively exploited for authentication bypass, system-wide compromise, and in some cases web shell deployment and persistent access,” Oasis Security said.
Malicious Google Ads Lead to Stealing Malware — Google’s sponsored ads when searching for “Mac cleaner” or “clear macOS cache” are being used to redirect unsuspecting users to sketchy sites hosted on Google Docs and Medium, enticing them to follow ClickFix-style instructions that deliver stealer malware. In a related development, a DHL-themed phishing email containing a ZIP archive is used to launch XLoader using DLL sideloading, which then loads Phantom Stealer using process helloing techniques.
US authorities investigate Meta contractor’s claim that WhatsApp chats are not private — U.S. law enforcement is investigating claims by former Meta contractors that the company’s employees had access to their WhatsApp messages, despite the company’s statements that the chat service is private and encrypted. The contractors claimed that some Meta staffers had “unfettered” access to WhatsApp messages and content, Bloomberg reported. The report stands in stark contrast to WhatsApp’s encryption infrastructure, which prevents third parties, including the company, from accessing chat content. “What these individuals are claiming is impossible because WhatsApp, its employees and contractors do not have access to people’s encrypted communications,” Mehta told Bloomberg. Note that when a user reports a user or group, WhatsApp receives up to five of the last messages sent to that user along with metadata. This is similar to taking a screenshot of the last few messages. The message is already on the device, decrypted because the device has a “key” to read it. However, these allegations suggest that access to the platform is much broader.
New PyRAT malware discovered — A new Python-based remote access Trojan (RAT) known as PyRAT has been discovered demonstrating cross-platform functionality, persistent infection methods, and extensive remote access capabilities. It supports features such as system command execution, file system operations, file enumeration, file upload/download, archive creation, and facilitates bulk extraction of stolen data. The malware also has a self-cleanup feature that uninstalls itself from the victim’s machine and erases all persistence components. “This Python-based RAT poses a significant risk to organizations due to its cross-platform capabilities, extensive functionality, and ease of deployment,” K7 Security Labs said. “Although not associated with highly sophisticated threat actors, its effectiveness in real-world attacks and observed detection rates indicate that it is actively used by cybercriminals, making it noteworthy.” It is unclear how it is currently being distributed.
Learn more about the new Exfil Out&Look attack technique — Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new method called Exfil Out&Look that exploits Outlook add-ins to steal data from organizations. “Add-ins installed through OWA (Outlook Web Access) can be exploited to generate audit logs or silently extract email data without leaving a forensic footprint. In stark contrast to the behavior observed on the desktop, this blind spot can allow malicious or overly permissive add-ins to operate undetected for long periods of time (an attacker could exploit this behavior to trigger the add-in’s core ability to intercept outgoing messages and send data to third-party servers when a victim sends an email). After responsible disclosure to Microsoft on September 30th, the company classified this issue as low severity with no immediate fix.
Exposed MongoDB servers can be exploited for extortion attacks — Nearly half of all MongoDB servers exposed to the internet have been compromised and held to ransom. Unidentified attackers targeted the misconfigured instances and dropped ransom notes on more than 1,400 databases, demanding Bitcoin payments to restore the data. Flare’s analysis found that more than 208,500 MongoDB servers are exposed, 100,000 of which expose operational information, and 3,100 that can be accessed without authentication. Additionally, nearly half (95,000) of all MongoDB servers exposed to the internet are running outdated versions that are vulnerable to the N-day flaw. “Threat actors demand payment in Bitcoin (often around 0.005 BTC, equivalent to $500-600 today) to a specified wallet address, promising to restore the data,” the cybersecurity firm said. “However, there is no guarantee that the attacker will have the data or that they will provide you with a valid decryption key if you pay them.”
Explore dark web forums — Positive Technologies took a close look at modern dark web forums, noting how they remain in a constant state of flux due to increased law enforcement activity, despite employing anonymity and protection technologies such as Tor and I2P, as well as anti-bot guardrails, anti-scraping mechanisms, closed moderation, and strict trust systems to evade surveillance and block suspicious activity. “However, the results of these interventions are rarely final; the abolition of one forum is usually the starting point for the emergence of a new, more sustainable and secure forum,” the report said. “And a key characteristic of such forums is that their technical safeguards are highly developed. If earlier generations of dark web forums were primitive web platforms that often existed in public parts of the internet, modern forums are complex distributed systems with multi-level infrastructure, APIs, moderator bots, built-in verification tools, and multi-tiered access systems.”
TA584 Campaign Introduces XWorm and Tsundere Bots — A prolific early access broker known as TA584 (also known as Storm-0900) has been observed using the Tsundere bot and the XWorm remote access Trojan to gain network access, possibly in preparation for a subsequent ransomware attack. The XWorm malware uses a configuration called “P0WER” to enable execution. “In late 2025, TA584 demonstrated multiple attack chain changes, including the adoption of ClickFix social engineering, expanded targeting to more consistently target specific regions and languages, and most recently the delivery of new malware called Tsundere Bot,” Proofpoint said. This threat actor is assessed to have been active since at least 2020, but has increased its activity tempo since March 2025. Organizations in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany are the primary targets. Emails sent by TA584 impersonate various organizations associated with healthcare and government organizations and utilize well-designed and trusted decoys to lure people to malicious content. These messages are sent through compromised accounts or third-party services like SendGrid or Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). “Emails typically contain unique links for each target that perform geofencing and IP filtering,” Proofpoint said. “If these checks pass, the recipient is redirected to a landing page in line with the email enticement.” In the early stages of the campaign, a macro-enabled Excel document called EtterSilent was delivered to facilitate the installation of the malware. The ultimate goal of the attack is to initiate a redirection chain through a third-party traffic direction system (TDS) like Keitaro to a CAPTCHA page, followed by a ClickFix page that instructs the victim to run PowerShell commands on the system. Other payloads distributed by TA584 in the past include Ursine, TA584, WARMCOOKIE, Xeno RAT, Cobalt Strike, and DCRat.
South Korea to notify citizens of data breach — The South Korean government will notify the public if data is leaked due to a security breach. The new notification system targets confirmed breaches, but also alerts those who may be involved in a data breach, even if the data breach has not been confirmed. These warnings also include information on how to seek compensation.
Details about critical flaws in Apache bRPC — CyberArk published details about a recently patched critical vulnerability in Apache bRPC (CVE-2025-60021, CVSS score: 9.8) that could allow an attacker to inject remote commands. The problem is with the “/pprof/heap” profiler endpoint. “The heap profiler service /pprof/heap did not validate the user-specified extra_options parameter before including it in the jeprof command line,” CyberArk said. “Before the fix, extra_options was added directly to the command string as follows:. Because this command is later executed to generate profiling output, shell special characters in attacker-controlled input can modify the executed command, potentially leading to command injection. As a result, an attacker can exploit the reachable “/pprof/heap” endpoint to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Apache bRPC process, potentially resulting in remote code execution. There are approximately 181 and 790 publicly reachable /pprof/heap endpoints. /pprof/* endpoints, but it is unclear how many of them are affected by this flaw.
Threat actors use new Unicode tricks to evade detection — Threat actors are using Unicode characters for arithmetic division (∕) instead of the standard slash (/) in malicious links to evade detection. Email security firm Barracuda said, “The almost indistinguishable difference between a divide slash and a forward slash can cause traditional automated security systems and filters to fail, allowing links to evade detection.” “As a result, victims are redirected to a default page or a random page.”
China executes 11 Myanmar fraud mafia members — The Chinese government has executed 11 members of the Ming family who ran a cyber fraud facility in Myanmar. The suspects were arrested in 2023 and sentenced in September 2025. In November 2025, five members of a Myanmar criminal organization were sentenced to death for running an industrial-scale fraud facility near the border with China. The Ming Mafia’s fraudulent operations and gambling dens brought in more than $1.4 billion between 2015 and 2023, BBC News reported, citing China’s Supreme Court.
FBI urges organizations to improve cybersecurity — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched Operation Winter Shield (short for “Securing the Homeland Infrastructure with Defenses in Depth”), outlining 10 actions organizations should take to improve cyber resiliency. This includes adopting phishing-resistant authentication, implementing a risk-based vulnerability management program, retiring end-of-life technologies, managing third-party risks, preserving security logs, maintaining offline backups, inventorying internet-facing systems and services, strengthening email authentication, reducing administrative privileges, and implementing an incident response plan with all stakeholders. “Winter SHIELD provides industry with a practical roadmap to make information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments more secure, strengthen the nation’s digital infrastructure, and reduce attack surfaces,” the FBI said. “Our goal is simple: improve resiliency across the industry by helping organizations understand where attackers are focused and what concrete steps they can take now (and build for the future) to make exploitation harder.”
Only 26% of vulnerability attacks are blocked by hosts — New research by website security firm PatchStack reveals that the majority of common WordPress-specific vulnerabilities are not mitigated by hosting service providers. In tests using 30 vulnerabilities known to be exploited in real-world attacks, the company found that 74% of all attacks were successful in taking over sites. “Among high-impact vulnerabilities, privilege escalation attacks were blocked only 12% of the time,” Patchstack said. “The biggest problem is not that hosts don’t care about vulnerability attacks, but that they think they can cover them with existing solutions.”
Cyberattacks will become more distributed in 2025 — Forescout’s 2025 Threat Roundup report finds that cyberattacks are becoming more globally distributed and cloud-enabled. “The top 10 countries accounted for 61% of malicious traffic in 2025, a 22% decrease compared to 2024, reversing the trend observed since 2022, when that number was 73%,” Forescout said. “In other words, attacks are becoming more distributed and attackers are increasingly using IP addresses from less common countries.” The US, India, and Germany were the most targeted countries, with 59% of attacks coming from ISP-managed IPs, 17% from corporate and government networks, and 24% from hosting or cloud providers. The majority of attacks came from China, Russia, and Iran. Attacks using OT protocols increased by 84%, led by Modbus. This development comes as Cisco Talos revealed that threat actors are increasingly exploiting public applications, surpassing phishing by the last quarter of 2025.
Google agrees to $68 million settlement in privacy lawsuit — Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that its voice-activated assistant illegally recorded private conversations and shared them with third parties without consent. The incident revolved around a “false positive,” in which Google Assistant allegedly activated and recorded the user’s communications even in scenarios where the actual trigger word “OK Google” was not used. Google denies wrongdoing. Apple reached a similar $95 million settlement in December 2024 over Siri recordings. Separately, Google agreed to pay $135 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that accused it of fraudulently using users’ mobile data to send system information to servers without their knowledge since November 12, 2017. As part of the settlement, Google will no longer transfer data to Android users when they set up their phones without their consent. Google will also make it easier for users to opt out of forwarding and will disclose forwarding in Google Play’s terms of service. The development follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling hearing a case arising from the use of Facebook tracking pixels to monitor the streaming habits of sports website users.
Security flaw in Google Fast Pair protocol — More than a dozen headphone and speaker models have been found to be vulnerable to a new vulnerability in the Google Fast Pair protocol (CVE-2025-36911, CVSS score: 7.1). This attack, called WhisperPair, allows an attacker to take control of your accessories without user interaction. In certain scenarios, an attacker can also register as the owner of these accessories and track the movements of the real owner via Google Find Hub. Google awarded researchers $15,000 for responsible disclosure in August 2025. “WhisperPair allows an attacker to forcibly pair a vulnerable Fast Pair accessory (such as wireless headphones or earbuds) with an attacker-controlled device (such as a laptop) without the user’s consent,” researchers from the COSIC group at the University of Leuven said. “This gives the attacker complete control over the accessory, allowing them to play audio at high volume or record conversations using the microphone. This attack succeeds within seconds (median 10 seconds) at realistic ranges (tested up to 14 meters) and does not require physical access to the vulnerable device.” In related news, Xiaomi Redmi Buds versions 3 Pro to 6 Pro are vulnerable to information disclosure (CVE-2025-13834) and a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-13328). The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) states that “an attacker within Bluetooth radio range could send specially crafted RFCOMM protocol interactions to a device’s internal channel without prior pairing or authentication, potentially allowing the disclosure of sensitive call-related data or causing repeatable firmware crashes.”

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conclusion

Cybersecurity continues to evolve rapidly. This week’s story shows how the balance continues to shift with attack, defense, and discovery. Staying safe now means staying alert, reacting quickly, and being aware of changes around you.

The past few days have proven that no one is too small to target and no system is completely secure. Every patch, every update, every fix matters. Because threats don’t wait.

Keep learning, stay cautious and stay alert. The next wave of attacks is already forming.