Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In today’s cybersecurity landscape, one thing remains constant: humans are both our greatest asset and our biggest risk. Despite increasingly sophisticated technology, human risk, insider threats, and social engineering attacks like phishing,continue to lead the charge when it comes to successful breaches.

In late July 2025, Arctic Wolf Labs began observing a surge of intrusions involving suspicious SonicWall SSL VPN activity. Malicious logins were followed within minutes by port scanning, Impacket SMB activity, and rapid deployment of Akira ransomware. Victims spanned across multiple sectors and organization sizes, suggesting opportunistic mass exploitation. This campaign has recently escalated, with new infrastructure linked to it observed as late as September 20, 2025.

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On September 25, 2025, Cisco released fixes for two vulnerabilities in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) that are currently being actively exploited by a sophisticated threat actor. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued Emergency Directive 25-03 requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to patch these vulnerabilities by 12 PM EDT on September 26.

On September 23, 2025, SolarWinds released a hotfix for a critical vulnerability impacting Web Help Desk (WHD), tracked as CVE-2025-26399. The vulnerability arises from a deserialization flaw in the AjaxProxy component that could allow a remote unauthenticated threat actor to achieve remote code execution. CVE-2025-26399 is the second bypass of a flaw originally disclosed last year as CVE-2024-28986 within WHD, with the first bypass being CVE-2024-28988.