Author: DEFENDEDGE

  • CISA and USCG Identify Areas for Cyber Hygiene Improvement After Conducting Proactive Threat Hunt at US Critical Infrastructure Organization

    Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) are issuing this Cybersecurity Advisory to present findings from a recent CISA and USCG hunt engagement. The purpose of this advisory is to highlight identified cybersecurity issues, thereby informing security defenders in other organizations of potential similar issues and encouraging them to Read more

  • Thorium Platform Public Availability

    Today, CISA, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, announced the public availability of Thorium, a scalable and distributed platform for automated file analysis and result aggregation. Thorium enhances cybersecurity teams’ capabilities by automating analysis workflows through seamless integration of commercial, open-source, and custom tools. It supports various mission functions, including software analysis, digital forensics, and Read more

  • Eviction Strategies Tool Released

    Today, CISA released the Eviction Strategies Tool to provide cyber defenders with critical support and assistance during the containment and eviction phases of incident response. This tool includes: Cyber Eviction Strategies Playbook Next Generation (Playbook-NG): A web-based application for next-generation operations. COUN7ER: A database of atomic post-compromise countermeasures users can execute based on adversary tactics, Read more

  • CISA Releases Five Industrial Control Systems Advisories

    CISA released five Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on July 29, 2025. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-158-04 Johnson Controls Software House iStar Pro Door Controller (Update A) ICSA-24-338-06 Fuji Electric Tellus Lite V-Simulator (Update A) ICSA-25-210-01 National Instruments LabVIEW ICSA-25-210-02 Samsung HVAC DMS ICSA-25-210-03 Delta Read more

  • CISA and Partners Release Updated Advisory on Scattered Spider Group

    CISA, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Australian Signals Directorate, and the Australian Federal Police and National Cyber Security Centre, released an updated joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Scattered Spider—a cybercriminal group targeting commercial facilities sectors and subsectors. This advisory provides Read more

  • CISA Releases Part One of Zero Trust Microsegmentation Guidance

    CISA released Microsegmentation in Zero Trust, Part One: Introduction and Planning as part of its ongoing efforts to support Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies implementing zero trust architectures (ZTAs).  This guidance provides a high-level overview of microsegmentation, focusing on its key concepts, associated challenges and potential benefits, and includes recommended actions to modernize network Read more

  • Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 21, 2025

    High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 1000 Projects–ABC Courier Management System A vulnerability has been found in 1000 Projects ABC Courier Management System 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /Add_reciver.php. The manipulation of the argument reciver_name leads to sql injection. Read more

  • #StopRansomware: Interlock

    Summary Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These #StopRansomware advisories include recently and historically observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to help organizations protect against ransomware. Visit stopransomware.gov to Read more

  • Joint Advisory Issued on Protecting Against Interlock Ransomware

    CISA, in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory to help protect businesses and critical infrastructure organizations in North America and Europe against Interlock ransomware.   This advisory highlights known Interlock ransomware indicators of compromise Read more

  • Vulnerability Summary for the Week of July 14, 2025

    High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info aapanel–aapanel WP Toolkit The aapanel WP Toolkit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing authorization checks within the auto_login() function in versions 1.0 to 1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to bypass all Read more