Daily Cyber Threat Brief 🔴 Nov 25’s Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1013
Nov 25, 2025
Eric Taylor, an incident response and cyber operations leader at Barricade Cyber, shares insights into the evolving landscape of cybersecurity. He delves into the deceptive JackFix click-fraud technique, which uses fake prompts to ensnare victims. The discussion also touches on the alarming rise of AI-generated deepfake fraud and the urgent need for economic security measures. Additionally, Taylor highlights Rhode Island College's initiative to build a cyber range, providing students with practical, hands-on cybersecurity training.
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Patch Oracle Identity Manager Now
- Patch Oracle Identity Manager immediately and hunt for pre-patch compromise activity in your environment.
- Treat this as urgent because exploitation is trivial and EPSS shows very high likelihood of attack.
Hacktivists Can Inflict Strategic Damage
- Ideologically motivated hacktivists can produce high-impact disruptive attacks equal to nation-state effects.
- Combined cyber wipers and kinetic strikes show how cyber complements physical operations in modern conflicts.
Remediate Fluent Bit Vulnerabilities
- Identify and update Fluent Bit instances to versions 4.1 or 4.0 if you're using them.
- Recognize that this open-source component is widely embedded and can yield RCE and auth bypass when unpatched.