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Criminals don’t need to be clever all the time; they just follow the easiest path in: trick users, exploit stale components, or abuse trusted systems like OAuth and package registries. If your stack or habits make any of those easy, you’re already a target. This week’s ThreatsDay highlights show exactly how those weak points are being exploited — from overlooked

SentinelLABS’ research reveals PhantomCaptcha, a highly coordinated, one-day cyber operation on Oct 8, 2025, targeting the International Red Cross, UNICEF, and Ukraine government groups using fake emails and a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) linked to Russian infrastructure.

As machine identities explode across cloud environments, enterprises report dramatic productivity gains from eliminating static credentials. And only legacy systems remain the weak link. For decades, organizations have relied on static secrets, such as API keys, passwords, and tokens, as unique identifiers for workloads. While this approach provides clear traceability, it creates what security

This is part of its broader push to fight impersonation and fraud, after removing more than 21,000 fake customer-support pages from Facebook.

GlassWorm, a self-propagating malware, infects VS Code extensions through the OpenVSX marketplace, stealing credentials and using blockchain for control.

Cisco Talos Incident Response observed a surge in attacks exploiting public-facing applications — mainly via ToolShell targeting SharePoint — for initial access, with post-exploitation phishing and evolving ransomware tactics also persisting this quarter.

The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks.

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cybercriminal group called Jingle Thief that has been observed targeting cloud environments associated with organizations in the retail and consumer services sectors for gift card fraud. "Jingle Thief attackers use phishing and smishing to steal credentials, to compromise organizations that issue gift cards," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers

### Impact OpenBao's audit log did not appropriately redact fields when relevant subsystems sent `[]byte` response parameters rather than `string`s. This includes, but is not limited to: - `sys/raw` with use of `encoding=base64`, all data would be emitted unredacted to the audit log. - Transit, when performing a signing operation with a derived Ed25519 key, would emit public keys to the audit log. Third-party plugins may be affected. This issue has been present since HashiCorp Vault and continues to impact Vault as of v1.20.4. ### Patches OpenBao v2.4.2 will patch this issue. ### Workarounds If users do not use the above functionality, they are not impacted. To prohibit the use of `sys/raw` globally, ensure `raw_storage_endpoint=false` is set or missing from the server configuration.

### Impact EncryptionUtilityServiceImpl initialized an AES256TextEncryptor password (serverSecretKey) using RandomStringUtils with the default java.util.Random. java.util.Random is a non‑cryptographic PRNG and can be predicted from limited state/seed information (e.g., start time window), substantially reducing the effective search space of the generated key. An attacker who can obtain ciphertexts (e.g., exported or at‑rest strings protected by this service) and approximate the PRNG seed can feasibly reconstruct the serverSecretKey and decrypt affected data. ### Patches SAK-49866 is patched in Sakai 23.5, 25.0, and trunk. ### Credits - Reported by [Suraj Gangwar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/surajgangwar?trk=contact-info). - Patched by Sam Ottenhoff (Longsight).