The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 20
May 21, 2025, 8:49 p.m.
Description
This intelligence update covers recent cybersecurity events. In positive developments, global authorities disrupted a major botnet, arrested a ransomware actor, and dismantled a dark web marketplace. On the negative side, a malicious NPM package was discovered hiding multi-stage malware using Unicode and Google Calendar. The most concerning development involves cyberspies exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Output Messenger to target Kurdish military users in Iraq, showcasing increased capabilities of the Marbled Dust threat group.
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- Created: May 16, 2025, 4:33 p.m.
- Published: May 16, 2025, 4:33 p.m.
- Modified: May 21, 2025, 8:49 p.m.
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- Technology
- Defense
- Government
- Kosovo
- Iraq
- Moldova, Republic of
- United States of America