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Hidden Risks in DevOps Stacks and Data Protection Strategies

🔒 DevOps platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps accelerate development but also introduce data risks from misconfigurations, exposed credentials, and service outages. Under the SaaS shared responsibility model, customers retain liability for protecting repository data and must enforce MFA, RBAC, and tested backups. Third-party immutable backups and left-shifted security practices are recommended to mitigate ransomware, insider threats, and accidental deletions.

Eurofiber France reports ticketing-system data breach

🔒 Eurofiber France disclosed a cybersecurity incident after attackers exploited a vulnerability in its ticket management system and exfiltrated information. The company said the impact is limited to its French division, including the ATE portal and several regional sub-brands, and that banking details and other critical data on separate systems were not affected. Authorities (CNIL, ANSSI) were notified and an extortion report has been filed while investigations continue.

Job-test malware campaign shifts to public JSON dropboxes

🔎 The Contagious Interview campaign is delivering trojanized coding tests that fetch heavily obfuscated JavaScript from public JSON-storage services such as JSON Keeper, JSONSilo, and npoint.io. When executed in a Node.js test run the payloads decode and install the BeaverTail infostealer and then stage the InvisibleFerret RAT. NVISO Labs warns attackers are abusing developer trust and legitimate platforms and recommends sandboxing, auditing config files, and blocking suspicious outbound requests.

Massive npm Worm Floods Registry to Harvest Tea Tokens

🔥 A coordinated worm is flooding the npm registry with packages designed to steal tokens from developers using the Tea Protocol, researchers say. Amazon and Sonatype report the campaign has expanded to roughly 153,000 packages, up from about 15,000 a year ago. While Tea tokens currently lack monetary value, experts warn threat actors could pivot to deliver malware or monetize rewards when Mainnet launches. Repositories and IT teams are urged to tighten access controls and deploy advanced detection.

Agentic AI Expands Identity Attack Surface Risks for Orgs

🔐 Rubrik Zero Labs warns that the rise of agentic AI has created a widening gap between an expanding identity attack surface and organizations’ ability to recover from compromises. Their report, Identity Crisis: Understanding & Building Resilience Against Identity-Driven Threats, finds 89% of organizations have integrated AI agents and estimates NHIs outnumber humans roughly 82:1. The authors call for comprehensive identity resilience—beyond traditional IAM—emphasizing zero trust, least privilege, and lifecycle control for non-human identities.

Kerberoasting in 2025: Protecting Service Accounts

🔒 Kerberoasting remains a persistent threat to Active Directory environments, enabling attackers to request service tickets for SPNs and crack their password hashes offline to escalate privileges. Adversaries use freely available tools like GetUserSPNs.py and Rubeus to extract tickets tied to service accounts, then perform offline brute-force attacks against the ticket encryption. Mitigations recommended include regular AD password audits, using gMSAs with auto-managed long passwords, preferring AES over RC4, enforcing non-reusable 25+ character passwords with rotation, and deploying MFA and robust password policies.

AVEVA Edge cryptographic weakness enables password recovery

🔒 AVEVA has released advisory ICSA-25-317-03 addressing a cryptographic weakness in AVEVA Edge (formerly InduSoft Web Studio) that could allow a local actor with read access to project or offline cache files to brute-force user or Active Directory passwords. The issue is tracked as CVE-2025-9317 and carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.3. AVEVA provides a 2023 R2 P01 Security Update and recommends project migration, password resets, and tightened file access controls. This vulnerability is not remotely exploitable according to CISA.

Operation Endgame Disrupts Multiple Malware Networks

🛡️ A coordinated law enforcement operation led by Europol and Eurojust between November 10–13, 2025 disrupted major malware infrastructures, including Rhadamanthys Stealer, Venom RAT, and an Elysium botnet. Authorities seized 20 domains, took down more than 1,025 servers and arrested a primary suspect in Greece on November 3. Europol said the dismantled networks encompassed hundreds of thousands of infected machines and several million stolen credentials, and that the infostealer operator had access to roughly 100,000 cryptocurrency wallets.

Password managers under attack: risks, examples, defenses

🔐 Password managers centralize credentials but are attractive targets for attackers who exploit phishing, malware, vendor breaches, fake apps and software vulnerabilities. Recent incidents — including a 2022 LastPass compromise and an ESET‑reported North Korean campaign — demonstrate how adversaries can exfiltrate vault data or trick users into surrendering master passwords. To reduce risk, use a long unique master passphrase, enable 2FA, keep software and browsers updated, install reputable endpoint security, and only download official apps from trusted stores.

Typosquatted npm Package Targets GitHub Actions Builds

⚠️ A malicious npm package, @acitons/artifact, impersonated the legitimate @actions/artifact module and was uploaded on November 7 to specifically target GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows. It included a post-install hook that executed an obfuscated shell-script named "harness," which fetched a JavaScript payload (verify.js) to detect GitHub runners and exfiltrate build tokens. Using those tokens the attacker could publish artifacts and impersonate GitHub; the package accrued over 260,000 downloads across six versions before detection.

Active Directory Under Siege: Risks in Hybrid Environments

🔐 Active Directory remains the critical authentication backbone for most enterprises, and its growing complexity across on‑premises and cloud hybrids has expanded attackers' opportunities. The article highlights common AD techniques — Golden Ticket, DCSync, and Kerberoasting — and frequent vulnerabilities such as weak and reused passwords, lingering service accounts, and poor visibility. It recommends layered defenses: strong password hygiene, privileged access management, zero‑trust conditional access, continuous monitoring, and rapid patching. The piece stresses that AD security is continuous and highlights solutions that block compromised credentials in real time.

Pixnapping vulnerability: Android screen-snooping risk

🔒 A newly disclosed exploit named Pixnapping (CVE-2025-48561) allows a malicious Android app with no special permissions to read screen pixels from other apps and reconstruct sensitive content. The attack chains intent-based off-screen rendering, translucent overlays, and a GPU compression timing side channel to infer pixel values. Google issued a September patch but researchers bypassed it, and a more robust fix is planned.

GlassWorm Malware Found in Three VS Code Extensions

🔒 Researchers identified three malicious VS Code extensions tied to the GlassWorm campaign that together had thousands of installs. The packages — ai-driven-dev.ai-driven-dev, adhamu.history-in-sublime-merge, and yasuyuky.transient-emacs — were still available at reporting. Koi Security warns GlassWorm harvests Open VSX, GitHub, and Git credentials, abuses invisible Unicode for obfuscation, and uses blockchain-updated C2 endpoints. Defenders should audit extensions, rotate exposed tokens and credentials, and monitor repositories and wallet activity for signs of compromise.

Enterprise Credentials at Risk: Same Old Compromise Cycle

🔐 The article outlines how everyday credential reuse and phishing feed a persistent compromise lifecycle: credentials are created, stolen, aggregated, tested, and ultimately exploited. It details common vectors — phishing, credential stuffing, third-party breaches, and leaked API keys — and describes criminal marketplaces, botnets, opportunistic fraudsters, and organized crime as distinct actors. Consequences include account takeover, lateral movement, data theft, resource abuse, and ransomware, and the piece urges immediate action such as scanning for leaked credentials with tools like Outpost24's Credential Checker.

Nikkei Slack Account Compromise Exposes Employee Data

🔒 Nikkei disclosed that unauthorized actors used malware to infect an employee’s computer, obtain Slack credentials, and access accounts on the company's Slack workspace. The firm reports that data for possibly more than 17,000 employees and business partners — including names, email addresses and chat logs — may have been stolen. Nikkei discovered the incident in September and implemented password resets and other remediation measures. The company said there's no confirmation that sources or journalistic activities were affected.

Ubia Ubox: Insufficiently Protected Credentials Advisory

🔒 CISA warns that Ubia's Ubox firmware (v1.1.124) exposes API credentials, potentially allowing remote attackers to access backend services. Successful exploitation could permit viewing live camera feeds or modifying device settings. The issue is tracked as CVE-2025-12636 with a CVSS v4 base score of 7.1. Users should minimize network exposure, isolate devices behind firewalls, use secure remote-access methods such as VPNs, and contact Ubia support for guidance.

Half of Satellite Traffic Unencrypted, Exposing Data

🔭 Researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland showed that a <$750 motorized satellite‑TV kit can intercept large volumes of geostationary traffic. They captured 3.7TB from 411 transponders across 39 satellites and found roughly half of sensitive streams — including VoIP, SMS, in‑flight Wi‑Fi and military telemetry — were unencrypted. Some operators patched rapidly, but many did not respond. Users should adopt VPNs, end‑to‑end messaging and prefer encrypted cellular services.

SonicWall: State-Sponsored Hackers Behind September Breach

🔒 SonicWall says a Mandiant-led investigation concluded that state-sponsored actors accessed cloud-stored firewall configuration backup files in September. The company reports the activity was isolated to a specific cloud environment and did not affect SonicWall products, firmware, source code, or customer networks. As a precaution, customers were advised to reset account credentials, temporary access codes, VPN passwords, and shared IPSec secrets. SonicWall also stated there is no connection between the breach and separate Akira ransomware activity.

Identity Failures Now Top Source of Cloud Risk in 2025

🔒 ReliaQuest's Q3 2025 telemetry found identity-related weaknesses were responsible for 44% of true‑positive cloud alerts, including excessive permissions, misconfigured roles and credential abuse. The report warns credentials and cloud keys often appear on crime markets — sometimes for as little as $2 — while 99% of cloud identities are reportedly over‑privileged, enabling stealthy access. It also highlights how rapid DevOps deployments can replicate legacy vulnerabilities and urges adoption of short‑lived credentials, strict least‑privilege controls and CI/CD security automation.

Louvre's Outdated Windows Systems Highlighted After Burglary

🏛 The Louvre has struggled for more than a decade with outdated software and unsupported Windows systems that control critical security infrastructure, French reports say. Audits in 2014 and 2017 found workstations running Windows 2000 and Windows XP, along with a video server still on Windows Server 2003 and weak, hard-coded passwords on surveillance applications. Procurement records also list multiple Thales systems as "software that cannot be updated." Authorities ordered governance and security reforms after a recent jewelry theft, though there is no indication the IT issues directly enabled that burglary.