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Actionable intel to stay ahead of evolving threats

We analyze current attack trends, break down the impact on SMB environments, and pair each threat with practical defensive measures you can apply right away.

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Threat level: elevated

Our SOC is tracking AI-assisted phishing kits and supply-chain vulnerabilities across popular collaboration stacks.

Threat Radar

Emerging attacks we are tracking this week

AI-powered BEC campaigns target finance teams

Adversaries are using large language models to auto-generate convincing executive impersonation emails that bypass spelling heuristics. We observed a 32% increase in attempted ACH reroutes across mid-market clients.

  • Initial compromise via OAuth app consent grants
  • Payload-free messages evade traditional scanners
  • Follow-on call spoofing validates fraudulent transfers

Published: October 9, 2025 · Author: DMF Threat Research

Zero-day in legacy VPN appliances exploited in the wild

Unpatched SSL VPN gateways are being weaponized to drop web shells and pivot toward file servers. Indicators point to double-extortion ransomware crews targeting healthcare and legal firms.

  • CVE-2025-4211 allows credential-less RCE
  • Adversaries establish persistence via scheduled tasks
  • Data exfiltration observed within 20 minutes of compromise

Published: October 7, 2025 · Author: DMF SOC

SaaS supply-chain attack abuses browser extensions

A malicious update injected into a popular PDF annotator extension now siphons session tokens from M365 and Google Workspace. The campaign hides exfiltration inside legitimate sync calls to evade proxies.

  • Targets remote-first teams with unmanaged browsers
  • Steals OAuth refresh tokens and escalates privileges
  • Shadow IT detection critical for rapid response

Published: October 4, 2025 · Author: DMF Labs

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Protection Playbooks

Practical defenses you can deploy today

Hardening Microsoft 365 against BEC

Roll out conditional access policies that block unfamiliar locations, enforce granular MFA prompts, and add transaction signing for financial teams. Combine with automation to disable suspicious OAuth grants.

“Within 48 hours we eliminated over 90% of privilege-consent attempts and cut invoice fraud attempts in half.” — DMF vCISO Team

Published: October 8, 2025 · Author: Modern Workplace Practice

VPN emergency response checklist

DMF’s incident playbook covers patch verification, log triage, revoking tokens, and deploying temporary geo-fencing. We also provide PowerShell scripts to validate integrity of core binaries before bringing appliances back online.

  • Inventory exposed appliances with Shodan + RMM sync
  • Force password resets and rotate shared creds
  • Deploy EDR containment policies for lateral movement

Published: October 6, 2025 · Author: DMF Incident Response

Browser isolation & extension governance

Adopt cloud browser isolation for privileged apps, enforce enterprise extension stores, and use CASB alerts to flag risky sync traffic. Pair with monthly user awareness labs focused on SaaS session hijacking.

Published: October 3, 2025 · Author: DMF Security Engineering

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