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A critical vulnerability could let attackers hijack and potentially disable vulnerable servers. Europol warns of a “shadow alliance” between state-backed threat actors and cybercriminals. Sekoia examines ClearFake. A critical PHP vulnerability is under active exploitation. A sophisticated scareware phishing campaign has shifted its focus to macOS users. Phishing as a service attacks are on the rise. A new jailbreak technique bypasses security controls in popular LLMs. Microsoft has uncovered StilachiRAT. CISA confirms active exploitation of a critical Fortinet vulnerability. On our CertByte segment, Chris Hare is joined by Troy McMillan to break down a question targeting the ISACA® Certified Information Security Manager® (CISM®) exam. AI coding assistants get all judgy. 

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CertByte Segment

Welcome to CertByte! On this bi-weekly segment hosted by Chris Hare, a content developer and project management specialist at N2K, we share practice questions from N2K’s suite of industry-leading certification resources. This week, Chris is joined by Troy McMillan to break down a question targeting the ISACA® Certified Information Security Manager® (CISM®) exam. Today’s question comes from N2K’s ISACA® Certified Information Security Manager® (CISM®) Practice Test.

The CISM exam helps to affirm your ability to assess risks, implement effective governance, proactively respond to incidents and is the preferred credential for IT managers, according to ISACA.To learn more about this and other related topics under this objective, please refer to the following resource: CISM Review Manual, 15th Edition, 1.0, Information Security Governance, Introduction.

Have a question that you’d like to see covered? Email us at certbyte@n2k.com. If you're studying for a certification exam, check out N2K’s full exam prep library of certification practice tests, practice labs, and training courses by visiting our website at n2k.com/certify.

Please note: The questions and answers provided here, and on our site, are not actual current or prior questions and answers from these certification publishers or providers.

Additional source: https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/cism#1

Selected Reading

Critical AMI MegaRAC bug can let attackers hijack, brick servers (bleepingcomputer)

Europol Warns of “Shadow Alliance” Between States and Criminals (Infosecurity Magazine)

ClearFake’s New Widespread Variant: Increased Web3 Exploitation for Malware Delivery (Sekoia.io Blog)

PHP RCE Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Wild to Attack Windows-based Systems (cybersecuritynews)

Scareware Combined With Phishing in Attacks Targeting macOS Users (securityweek)

Sneaky 2FA Joins Tycoon 2FA and EvilProxy in 2025 Phishing Surge (Infosecurity Magazine)

New Jailbreak Technique Bypasses DeepSeek, Copilot, and ChatGPT to Generate Chrome Malware (gbhackers)

Microsoft Warns of New StilachiRAT Malware (SecurityWeek)

Fortinet Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attack, CISA Warns (Infosecurity Magazine)

AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a 'vibe coder' to write his own damn code (TechCrunch)

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