Today’s threat landscape blends speed, scale, and subtlety. From hackers using TikTok to spread info-stealers, to Cisco flaws fueling botnets, and China-linked APTs breaching cloud platforms — the common thread is this: if it connects, it can be compromised.
🎵 Hackers Use TikTok Videos to Spread Malware
A new campaign leverages trending TikTok videos with embedded malicious links — leading to infostealers disguised as browser plugins. Social media is no longer just a vector for influence. It’s an active drop zone.
🔗 https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/hackers-use-tiktok-videos-to-distribute.html
📡 ViciousTrap Uses Cisco Flaw to Grow Botnet of Compromised Devices
Exploiting an unpatched Cisco vulnerability, ViciousTrap botnet operators are quietly enlisting routers and networking gear for DDoS and proxy relay. Infrastructure is still the ultimate high ground.
🔗 https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/vicioustrap-uses-cisco-flaw-to-build.html
🧠 Rethinking Data Privacy in the Generative AI Era
As GenAI models vacuum up training data, enterprises are being forced to reevaluate what “private data” even means. Once embedded in a model, the data doesn’t leak — it learns.
🔗 https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/rethinking-data-privacy-age-generative-ai
🧱 The Three Critical Pillars of Cyber Resilience
Dark Reading breaks cyber resilience down to three essentials: visibility, adaptability, and continuity. The takeaway? Resilience isn’t just recovery — it’s the ability to pivot while under attack.
🔗 https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/three-critical-pillars-of-cyber-resilience
🧾 AI Data Security Best Practices Released by CISA and Partners
CISA has teamed up with international partners to publish AI data security guidance, focused on training integrity, model governance, and post-deployment monitoring. Because AI doesn’t fail cleanly — it fails subtly.
🔗 https://www.scworld.com/news/ai-data-security-best-practices-outlined-by-cisa-and-partners
🔐 StackHawk Secures $12M to Strengthen API Security Platform
StackHawk’s funding round highlights continued momentum in the API security space — where logic flaws, token misuse, and poor visibility leave more doors open than endpoints ever did.
🔗 https://pulse2.com/stackhawk-12-million-secured-for-api-security-platform/
☁️ China-Linked Silk Typhoon Allegedly Accessed Commvault Cloud Environments
A source claims that Silk Typhoon (APT41) breached Commvault-hosted cloud platforms — raising concerns around shadow access, credential hygiene, and third-party trust.
🔗 https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/05/china-linked-silk-typhoon-hackers-accessed-commvault-cloud-environments-person-familiar-says/405579/
💭 Reflection
Day 143 hits on all fronts:
Social media is a payload. Cloud is porous. AI eats privacy.
This isn’t fear-mongering — it’s adaptation.
As I continue leveling up through CISSP and cloud strategy, I’m reminded that cybersecurity isn’t just code — it’s context. The world has changed. So must our definitions of exposure, intent, and trust.
The threats are faster.
But so are we. 🧠⚙️🌪️
