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February 18, 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing

February 18, 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing This week’s briefing covers: CL0P Update CL0P updated their data leak site with a new victim list of approximately 43 organizations. The organizations are likely from the previous redacted list containing company names from C-E and are possibly associated with the Cleo zero-day vulnerability.

Top Six Most Dangerous Vulnerabilities in C and C++

C and C++ programming are notorious for being bug-prone. Let’s look at the most dangerous software weaknesses in 2024 that are relevant for C and C++, so that you know what type of issues to test your code against in 2025. We examined the 2024 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses list developed by Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) and identified weaknesses relevant to C/C++. These weaknesses can become vulnerabilities. We explained how they occur and how you can uncover them.

Prisma and PostgreSQL vulnerable to NoSQL injection? A surprising security risk explained

Imagine you’re building a blogging web app using Prisma. You write a simple query to authenticate users based on their provided email and password: Looks harmless, right? But what if an attacker sends password = { "not": "" }? Instead of returning the User object only when email and password match, the query always returns the User when only the provided email matches. This vulnerability is known as operator injection, but it’s more commonly referred to as NoSQL injection.

Breaking the Swivel Chair Cycle: Why Security Teams Struggle with Asset Visibility-and How to Fix It

For many security professionals, managing asset visibility feels like an endless game of whack-a-mole. They are stuck in what experts call the “swivel chair approach”—constantly pivoting between multiple dashboards, spreadsheets, and security tools to manually stitch together an understanding of their risk landscape.

Exploited! PANOS Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVE20250108)

Recently, Palo Alto Networks disclosed CVE‑2025‑0108—a high-severity authentication bypass in the PAN‑OS management web interface. Although the flaw does not enable remote code execution, it compromises the confidentiality and integrity of management functions. In this post, we’ll break down the technical details, discuss the exploitation methodology, illustrate configuration and code examples, and outline effective mitigation strategies.