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Also: 23andMe's Privacy Meltdown, Investors' $500M AI Bet on ReliaQuest
In this week's update, ISMG editors discussed the Trump administration's cybersecurity funding cuts and potential impact on state and local ransomware defense, 23andMe's bankruptcy and the FTC's stance on genetic data privacy, ReliaQuest's $500 million raise and what it means for AI-led SecOps.

Investigators See Ongoing Use of Living-Off-the-Land Binaries, Frequent RDP Abuse
Incident responders studying last year's top attacker tools, tactics and procedures have urged cyber defenders to monitor for the unusual use of legitimate administrator tools, suspicious use of Remote Desktop Protocol, as well as attempts by attackers to hide their tracks by wiping logs.

Officials Warn Trump's Abrupt Firings Severely Weaken National Cyber Defenses
President Donald Trump fired National Security Agency and Cyber Command chief Gen. Timothy Haugh after a meeting with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, sparking concerns among cybersecurity experts and lawmakers that the dismissals weaken national cyber defenses and military readiness.

An old DNS switcheroo technique is still helping attackers keep their infrastructure alive. But is it really a pressing issue in 2025?

A vulnerability has been found in Bloofox CMS 0.3.4 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file plugins/spaw2/dialogs/dialog.php. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-5748. The attack can be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

A vulnerability has been found in Nokia Electronic Documentation 5.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /docs. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2003-0801. The attack can be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-native technologies, securing Kubernetes infrastructure has become more important than ever. Cloud-native security encompasses practices and tools designed specifically to protect applications, data, and infrastructure in today’s ephemeral, distributed cloud environments. By aligning cloud native security practices with regulatory requirements, you can better ensure compliance, which is critical for organizations operating in industries such as finance and healthcare.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in usememos memos up to 0.13.2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /o/get/image. The manipulation leads to server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-29029. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

A vulnerability was found in Baidu OpenRASP up to 1.3.7. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /login. The manipulation of the argument redirect leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-29183. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in CSZ CMS 1.3.0. This affects the function Settings. The manipulation of the argument Default Keyword leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-27752. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in SEMCMS 4.8. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-32409. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no exploit available.

A vulnerability was found in FFmpeg N113007-g8d24a28d06. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function gen_alias_map of the file libavcodec/jpegxl_parser.c. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-51791. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

Hunters International, the RaaS group that some believe evolved from Hive, appears to be rebranding and shifting operations, moving away from an unprofitable and risky ransomware business and focusing solely on exfiltrating data and extorting victims, say Group-IB researchers.

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