Today’s intel pulls from the quiet corners: weaponized developer modules, shadowy privilege escalation flaws, and a two-year-long Iranian foothold that no one noticed. It’s a reminder that most threats don’t knock — they nest.
🐢 Iranian Hackers Maintained 2-Year Access to U.S. Satellite Firm
A sobering revelation: an Iranian APT maintained undetected access to a U.S. satellite communications company for two years. The compromise involved credential theft, web shell deployment, and careful privilege escalation — showing how persistence is the payload.
🔗 https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/iranian-hackers-maintain-2-year-access.html
📦 Malicious Go Modules Used to Deliver Disk-Wiping Malware
Newly discovered Go modules in the wild have been trojanized to deploy destructive disk-wiping malware, targeting developers via compromised or spoofed open-source packages. The developer supply chain is now a delivery mechanism.
🔗 https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-go-modules-deliver-disk.html
🛠️ CVE Watch: Privilege Escalation and Input Handling Vulnerabilities
Three newly indexed CVEs reveal input validation failures and permission escalation vulnerabilities in various applications. Individually minor, together they show a persistent problem: undervalidated trust at the user input level.
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WLB-2025050012: Inadequate input sanitization in a .NET-based CMS plugin can lead to arbitrary file upload.
🔗 https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2025050012 -
WLB-2025050011: Local privilege escalation possible through symbolic link abuse in a common backup utility.
🔗 https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2025050011 -
WLB-2025050010: Exposed admin endpoints with weak session handling mechanisms in a web monitoring tool.
🔗 https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2025050010
🔄 What Cybersecurity Shifts Should Companies Make in 2025?
CyberDefense Magazine outlines five shifts companies should be making now: incident simulation as culture, identity-first architecture, board-level visibility, and full-cycle threat modeling. The point is clear: 2025 is the year to get proactive, not reactive.
🔗 https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/cybersecurity-changes-companies-should-be-considering-for-2025/
💭 Reflection
It’s Day 123, and the metaphor today is sediment. Attacks don’t always explode — they settle. They settle in outdated modules, forgotten endpoints, or weak assumptions about user trust.
As I continue my CISSP prep and cloud/DevSecOps evolution, this week’s takeaway is simple: if it’s quiet, check again. Insecurity often hides in the calm.
The question isn’t what we see — it’s what we assume is safe when we stop looking. 🕳️🔍🧠
