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TLDR INFORMATION SECURITY 2025-11-18

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01GENERAL

02ATTACKS & VULNERABILITIES

CORNERSTONE STAFFING RANSOMWARE ATTACK LEAKS 120,000 RESUMES, CLAIMS QILIN GANG

Qilin ransomware group breached Cornerstone Staffing Solutions, exfiltrating 300GB, including 120,000 resumes, SSNs, employee salary data, and internal financial records. The Russian-linked group has become 2025's most active ransomware operation with 991 victims since 2023, employing double extortion tactics and recently allying with LockBit and DragonForce. Security teams should expect increased targeting of staffing agencies and organizations storing large volumes of PII. Threat actors are leveraging the stolen resumes for sophisticated phishing campaigns.

links.tldrnewsletter.com3 min read

LOGITECH CONFIRMS DATA BREACH FOLLOWING DESIGNATION AS ORACLE HACK VICTIM

Logitech has acknowledged a data breach after being listed by Cl0p ransomware, but did not confirm a connection to Oracle. The attack likely exploited a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, allowing some employee, consumer, customer, and supplier information to have been copied. No sensitive data, such as IDs or credit cards, appears to have been affected.

securityweek.com2 min read

EUROFIBER ADMITS CROOKS SWIPED DATA FROM FRENCH UNIT AFTER CYBERATTACK

Eurofiber's French branch suffered a cyberattack on November 13 that exposed company data through a vulnerability in its ticket platform. Eurofiber claims that no banking data was exfiltrated, and the flaw has now been resolved. However, the attackers sought extortion for an unspecified amount of data. The company is working with authorities and clients to determine the incident.

theregister.com2 min read

03STRATEGIES & TACTICS

USING AWS SECRETS MANAGER AGENT WITH AMAZON EKS

AWS Secrets Manager Agent simplifies the retrieval of secrets in EKS clusters. The Secrets Manager Agent is a client-side agent that retrieves and caches secrets in your compute environment, allowing applications to consume secrets directly through an in-memory cache via a local HTTP endpoint. The agent implements pod identity to provide authentication and access control.

aws.amazon.com5 min read

BYPASSING WIFI CLIENT ISOLATION

Client isolation is a security feature that prevents devices connected to the same network from communicating directly with each other. A device can spoof WiFi frames with the From-DS to bypass the Access Point (AP) and make a client think the communication is coming from the distribution system instead of directly from a client. In an encrypted network, the attacker will also need to spoof the WPA 4-way handshake or use a tool like aircrack-ng to deauthenticate a victim device.

pulsesecurity.co.nz8 min read

04LAUNCHES & TOOLS

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PORTAL26 (PRODUCT LAUNCH)

Portal26 provides organizations with a platform to monitor, analyze, secure, and optimize generative AI use by benchmarking usage, enforcing security policies, preventing data leaks, and scoring based on risk and ROI.

portal26.ai

WAZUH

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments.

github.comGitHub repository

METIS

Metis is an AI-driven tool for deep security code review created by Arm's Product Security Team.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

RESEARCHERS QUESTION ANTHROPIC CLAIM THAT AI-ASSISTED ATTACK WAS 90% AUTONOMOUS

Anthropic reported a major AI-driven cyber espionage attempt using Claude AI, claiming it automated 90% of hacking steps for suspected Chinese attackers. However, outside experts challenge this view, saying such full automation is exaggerated, as most attacks were not successful, and the AI often fabricated results.

arstechnica.com3 min read

GOOGLE ONLINE SECURITY BLOG: RUST IN ANDROID: MOVE FAST AND FIX THINGS

Google's use of Rust in Android has led to a 1,000x reduction in memory safety vulnerabilities compared to C/C++, while also accelerating software delivery. Rust's adoption means fewer code reviews, reworks, and rollbacks, making it now integral to Android's kernel, firmware, and apps, delivering greater safety and efficiency, even as rare bugs are quickly fixed without undermining overall security benefits.

security.googleblog.com7 min read

FIVE PLEAD GUILTY TO HELPING NORTH KOREANS INFILTRATE US FIRMS

Five individuals pleaded guilty to facilitating North Korean IT worker infiltration schemes that compromised 136 US companies and generated over $2.2 million for the DPRK regime through stolen and false identities. The operation involved identity theft from 18 US persons, salary funneling to North Korea, and data exfiltration. Meanwhile, the DOJ separately moved to seize $15 million in cryptocurrency stolen by APT38/Lazarus from four 2023 exchange heists totaling $382 million. Organizations should strengthen identity verification for remote workers, implement behavioral analytics to detect credential sharing or anomalous access patterns, and monitor for data exfiltration to foreign adversary infrastructure.

bleepingcomputer.com3 min read