SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 7th, 2025: Sextortion Update; Adobe and Trend Micro release emergency patches

07/08/2025 5 min Episodio 9560
SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 7th, 2025: Sextortion Update; Adobe and Trend Micro release emergency patches

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Do Sextortion Scams Still Work in 2025? Jan looked at recent sextortion emails to check if any of the crypto addresses in these emails received deposits. Sadly, some did, so these scams still work.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Do%20sextortion%20scams%20still%20work%20in%202025%3F/32178 Akira Ransomware Group s use of Drivers Guidepoint Security observed the Akira ransomware group using specific legitimate drivers for privilege escalationhttps://www.guidepointsecurity.com/blog/gritrep-akira-sonicwall/ Adobe Patches Critical Experience Manager Vulnerability Adobe released emergency patches for a vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager after a PoC exploit was made public.https://slcyber.io/assetnote-security-research-center/struts-devmode-in-2025-critical-pre-auth-vulnerabilities-in-adobe-experience-manager-forms/https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/aem-forms/apsb25-82.html Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerability Trend Micro released an emergency patch for an actively exploited pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in the Apex One management console.https://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0020652

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