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March 24, 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing

March 24, 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing This week’s briefing covers: KTA134 (BLACKBASTA) Chats Suggests Help From Russian Officials Upon review of leaked chat logs, it appears that KTA248 (Oleg Nefedov, GG, Tramp, Kurva) was able to evade trial by eliciting the help of Russian government officials. Supply Chain Attack Leaks Secrets from GitHub A supply chain attack on the popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files caused many repositories to leak their secrets over the weekend.

Security Bulletin: QakBot/Qbot Malware

QakBot (also known as Qbot or Pinkslipbot) is a highly adaptive malware that has evolved over the past decade to evade security defenses. Initially developed as a banking trojan to steal financial data, it has since expanded its capabilities, employing advanced evasion techniques and a modular architecture to facilitate credential theft, lateral movement, and ransomware deployment.

Maximising the Value of Threat Intelligence

To stay ahead of evolving cyber threats, it’s not just data that is needed—it is actionable intelligence. With the increasing complexity of attacks, regulatory pressures, and resource constraints, it’s essential to have a proactive approach to threat management. This whitepaper, Maximising the Value of Threat Intelligence, is a strategic, actionable guide tailored for CISOs and security teams.

The ROI of threat intelligence: Measuring the Value Beyond Detection

Cybersecurity investment is a critical balancing act between cost and protection. Threat intelligence is often seen as a crucial part of this equation, providing insights that help businesses anticipate and prevent cyber attacks. Yet when it comes to evaluating the return on investment (ROI) of threat intelligence, the focus often remains narrowly on its role in threat detection. This limited perspective misses the broader strategic value that high-quality intelligence brings.

Cloudflare expands threat intelligence offering with new comprehensive, real-time events platform

Customers can tap into insights from Cloudflare's global network - one of the largest in the world - which blocked an average of 227 billion cyber threats each day during Q4 2024.
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Enhancing Threat Intelligence and Threat Detection in Australian Central Government Organisations

In an era where digital frontiers are continuously expanding and evolving, adaptability is critical for Federal, State, and Local Government Departments, and Agencies to secure their infrastructure and sensitive data. Progress and growth strategies must be aligned with defense against growing cyber threats.

March 17, 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing

This week’s briefing covers: KTA080 (CLOP) Update CL0P has recently published files from victim organizations that were last revealed from the E-H listing around February 24, 2025. Some victim organizations were removed from the E-H listing as well as the H-W listing, likely due to negotiations with the threat actor group to refrain from sensitive data to be published. Additional victim companies have also been published outside of the E-H listing.

The Future of Threat Intelligence: Trends, Tools, and Tactics To Watch

In today’s evolving cyber landscape, threat intelligence has become a cornerstone of effective cybersecurity strategies. As cyber threats grow in sophistication and frequency, understanding emerging trends, adopting advanced tools, and implementing proactive tactics are essential for organisations aiming to safeguard their digital assets. Traditionally, threat intelligence has focused on reactive measures, analysing known threats to mitigate potential damage.

Security Bulletin: Apache Camel Message Header Injection via Improper Filtering

In the days leading up to the publication of the Apache Camel Message Header Injection via Improper Filtering, now known as CVE-2025-27636, alarmist noise emerged from the wider cyber community, with Kevin Beaumont describing it as an “end of the world zero day” in Apache Camel, along with explicit details on how elements of this vulnerability worked.