Cybersecurity has a way of rewarding patience. Most problems aren’t solved with big gestures—they’re solved by slowing down, tracing the issue step by step, and letting the data point you in the right direction. I’ve always found that staying calm and methodical gets you further than trying to force a fast answer. Even the toughest challenges usually come down to one variable out of place or a small assumption that needs to be revisited.
🔒 Security Tip of the Week:
If you’re parsing logs or alerts with custom scripts, build in a quick normalization step at the beginning. Converting timestamps, trimming whitespace, or standardizing field names prevents subtle mismatches that can break correlations later. It’s a small cleanup pass that pays off when you’re stitching together evidence from different sources.
clean = {
"ts": parse_timestamp(raw.get("timestamp", "").strip()),
"user": raw.get("user", "").lower().strip(),
"ip": raw.get("ip", "").strip(),
}
A little consistency in the data going in makes the analysis coming out far more reliable.
If you need help identifying where to start with your Security program or how to get to that next level of program maturity, contact Pinpoint Security today!
-Kyle
📰 Weekly News Roundup:
Here is the most recent Cybersecurity news for the past week:
🚨 Fortinet FortiWeb Vulnerability Actively Exploited After Delayed Patch Disclosure
A critical-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-64446, CVSS 9.1) in Fortinet’s FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is being actively exploited in the wild. Fortinet initially released a patch in late October but delayed public disclosure and assigning a CVE until mid-November, prompting criticism from researchers and CISA, who added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog due to its active use by attackers to gain administrator-level access.
🇨🇳 Data Leak Exposes Chinese State-Linked Cyber Arsenal and Global Target List
A major data breach at Chinese cybersecurity firm Knownsec, which has strong ties to state organizations, has reportedly led to the theft of over 12,000 files. The leaked documents allegedly expose sophisticated state-sponsored cyber weapons, internal hacking tools for various operating systems, and a comprehensive database of global intelligence targets.
📱 New LANDFALL Android Spyware Targets Samsung Devices via Zero-Day Flaw
Security researchers uncovered a new commercial-grade Android spyware, dubbed LANDFALL, that was delivered to high-end Samsung Galaxy devices. The attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-21042) in Samsung’s image processing library, enabling them to steal sensitive data and monitor users via malformed image files sent over messaging apps like WhatsApp.
💬 New York Text Messaging Service Hacked, Sends Hundreds of Thousands of Scam Texts
Hackers successfully breached Mobile Commons, a company providing mass text messaging services to government and non-profit organizations in New York state. The attack, believed to be a spear-phishing or social engineering incident, allowed threat actors to hijack the service and push hundreds of thousands of fraudulent scam texts to subscribers of New York state alerts and various charities.
⚠️ CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Windows Kernel Zero-Day (CVE-2025-62215)
Microsoft issued patches for over 60 vulnerabilities in its November Patch Tuesday, including an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Kernel tracked as CVE-2025-62215. Although rated “Important,” the flaw is an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) bug that attackers can leverage as part of a multi-stage attack to gain SYSTEM privileges on a compromised Windows device.