This Week in Dragon Sight
This issue delivers the latest cyber risks, threat intelligence updates, and practical defense strategies to help you stay ahead in an increasingly complex digital landscape. Whether you're protecting critical infrastructure, managing compliance, or building cyber readiness across your team, the insights inside are designed to strengthen your defenses.

Inside:

High-impact vulnerabilities and active exploit alerts

Threat actor behaviors and tools to watch

Actionable guidance to reduce risk and improve response

Stay informed. Stay prepared. Stay secure—with Dragon Sight.

WHAT’S INSIDE

Cybersecurity News Roundup
• WhatsApp spoofing flaw (CVE-2025-30401) enables message forgery
• Critical Dell Unity RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-24383)
• Neptune RAT steals credentials from 270+ apps and wipes systems
• Ransomware targets new sectors; attackers hijack antivirus tools
• Deep dive: AV hijacking through DLL injection and trusted processes

Actionable Security Tips
• Use strong, unique passwords with a password manager
• Enable MFA across critical systems
• Detect lateral movement via WMI and unusual remote activity

Threat Intelligence Primer
• Ingest IOCs from trusted feeds and OSINT sources
• Use log correlation in SIEMs for faster threat detection
• Align defenses with the MITRE ATT&CK framework

Nexus-Dragon Solutions Spotlight
• CLS: 4-year training track with cert prep, mentorship, and labs
• Dragon Armor: Threat detection, compliance tools, and onboarding for SMBs

THREAT FOCUS INFORMATION

Key Takeaways:

• Spoofing risks are rising — CVE-2025-30401 highlights the need to verify message authenticity, especially in business communications.

• Enterprise storage systems are under threat — Dell Unity vulnerabilities require immediate patching to prevent remote takeover.

• Neptune RAT represents a dual threat — Combining credential theft and system destruction, it's a top concern for critical infrastructure.

• Antivirus tools are being exploited — Attackers are using trusted security software to deploy malware and bypass defenses.

• Ransomware targets are expanding — New variants are hitting sectors like education, real estate, and manufacturing.

• Proactive defense is essential — Regular IOC ingestion, log analysis, and ATT&CK mapping can dramatically reduce dwell time.

• SMBs need scalable protection — Dragon Armor offers enterprise-grade defense without complexity, while CLS builds long-term readiness.
  

1. CVE-2025-30401 – WhatsApp for Windows Spoofing Vulnerability
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Risk Level: High | Affected Versions: Prior to 2.2450.6
A recently disclosed spoofing vulnerability in WhatsApp for Windows enables attackers to forge message content that appears to come from trusted contacts. This manipulation of the chat interface opens the door for advanced social engineering attacks, phishing links, or impersonation-based fraud. Although technical details remain limited, Meta has released a patch.

Why It Matters: Widespread use of WhatsApp in government, healthcare, and enterprise settings means that even a small spoofing flaw could result in major data compromise.
Recommended Action: Immediately update to the latest version and implement policies for verifying sender identity outside of the app when sensitive communication is involved.

2. CVE-2025-24383 – Dell Unity, UnityVSA, and Unity XT Vulnerabilities
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Risk Level: Critical | Impact: Full system compromise
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dell Unity series storage systems, including UnityVSA and Unity XT. These flaws can allow attackers to bypass authentication, gain elevated privileges, or execute arbitrary code. Affected systems may be remotely accessed and manipulated, making this a significant risk for data centers and cloud-integrated environments.
Why It Matters: These vulnerabilities can result in exfiltration or destruction of sensitive enterprise data, especially in environments lacking network segmentation or strong access controls.

Recommended Action: Organizations using affected Dell platforms must apply the remediation packages provided by Dell, restrict internet-facing access to storage appliances, and monitor for suspicious activity on internal networks.

3. Neptune RAT – Credential Theft from 270+ Applications & System Wipe Capability
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Threat Level: Severe | Type: Advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT)
Neptune RAT is a highly capable malware variant with modules for keylogging, credential harvesting, and destructive payload deployment. It is designed to collect credentials from over 270 applications, including web browsers, email clients, VPN software, and password managers. Infected systems can be remotely wiped or used as entry points into broader enterprise environments.
Why It Matters: This threat demonstrates a blend of espionage and destruction, making it particularly dangerous in critical infrastructure, healthcare, or finance.

Recommended Action: Implement threat hunting for suspicious DLL activity, privilege escalation, or registry tampering. Block outbound C2 connections to known Neptune RAT infrastructure, and ensure data backup strategies are in place and isolated from the network.

4. Ransomware Trends and AV Hijacking Tactics – March 2025 Report by Level Blue
Full Analysis →

Level Blue’s March 2025 threat landscape report reveals two major concerns: the diversification of ransomware targeting and the growing use of legitimate antivirus tools to launch malware. New ransomware families are now impacting manufacturing, education, and real estate. Attackers are also hijacking trusted AV tools to disable detection modules or deploy payloads, exploiting weak configuration policies.
Why It Matters: Threat actors are adapting faster than most organizations’ defenses, using your own tools against you. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) kits are increasingly plug-and-play, lowering the barrier to entry for cybercriminals.

Recommended Action: Re-evaluate antivirus trust relationships, harden AV tool execution permissions, and monitor endpoint behavior for unusual child processes from AV software.

5. Antivirus Hijacking – A Deep Dive from LevelBlue Labs
Detailed Research →

This technical report investigates how cybercriminals exploit flaws in antivirus software architecture to deploy malware with elevated privileges. Techniques include DLL injection into AV processes, manipulation of update chains, and use of signed binaries to appear legitimate. The goal is to disguise malicious activity inside trusted software environments.
Why It Matters: Once a trusted process is hijacked, most detection tools fail to flag the activity, giving attackers a backdoor with near-zero visibility.

Recommended Action: Use behavior-based monitoring (via EDR or SIEM), enforce application allowlists, and segment security tooling from user-level execution environments.

CISA and Government Advisories

CVE-2025-30401 Added to CISA KEV Catalog
View CISA KEV List → CISA KEV
CISA has added the WhatsApp spoofing vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Federal systems must be patched by April 29, 2025.

Top Tips for the SMB!

Tip 1: Secure Your Accounts
Use a trusted password manager to create and store complex, unique passwords for every user and system account. Avoid password reuse across environments.

Tip 2: Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Require MFA for email, admin portals, remote access, and any system with privileged credentials. It significantly reduces the risk of credential-based breaches.

Tip 3: Monitor for Anomalous Behavior with Log Correlation
Implement centralized log collection (via SIEM or XDR) and actively monitor for anomalies—such as unusual login times, disabled logging, or access from new geographic locations. Early detection prevents deeper compromise.

Turning Threat Intelligence Into Real Defense

In today’s threat landscape, cyberattacks aren’t slowing down—they’re getting smarter, faster, and more targeted. For security teams, simply reacting after an incident isn’t enough. What makes a difference now is the ability to see threats coming, understand their behavior, and act before they strike. That’s where actionable threat intelligence comes in.

Good intelligence isn’t just a feed of IOCs. It’s the bridge between raw data and meaningful, decisive action. It helps you reduce dwell time, spot attackers early, and focus your team’s efforts where they’ll have the most impact.

In this short primer, we’ll walk through the core components of making threat intelligence work—from collecting the right data to using frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK to track how attackers move. Whether you’re just building out your threat-hunting program or looking to sharpen what you already have, these practices will help you turn information into operational results.

Core Components of Actionable Threat Intelligence

1. Collecting and Analyzing Intelligence Daily
Start with a steady flow of data: IP addresses, domains, file hashes, malware indicators, and behavioral patterns. Pull this from threat feeds, OSINT sources, government alerts, and ISACs. Feed it into your existing security stack to help you detect threats faster and act with context.

2. Using Log Data to Surface Threats
SIEM platforms—or modern XDR tools—are critical here. They let you correlate log events, detect anomalies, and identify attacker behaviors like failed logins, lateral movement, or suspicious command use. Don’t wait for an alert—look for weak signals that something isn’t right.

3. Hunting for Lateral Movement
Once attackers are inside, their next move is spreading quietly. They’ll look for higher privileges, jump across systems, and blend in. Threat hunters should actively search for tools like PsExec, WMI, or unusual remote desktop activity—clues that someone’s moving where they shouldn’t be.

4. Mapping Behavior with MITRE ATT&CK
The MITRE ATT&CK framework gives you a language for understanding how real-world attackers operate. Use it to map your detections, tune your alerts, and plan your red/blue team exercises. It helps you see which techniques your tools can catch—and which ones you’re blind to.

Building a Modern Cybersecurity Foundation

As cyber threats continue to evolve, organizations must take a proactive and comprehensive approach to security. Effective cybersecurity training is the first step toward creating a resilient workforce capable of defending against a wide range of digital risks.

Today’s security landscape spans multiple domains—from information security and network security to cloud security and endpoint security. Whether you're protecting on-prem infrastructure or hybrid environments, your strategy must include tools like firewalls, malware protection, and real-time security operations monitoring.

Advanced practices like penetration testing, incident response, and risk management ensure that your systems can not only detect intrusions but also respond and recover quickly. Maintaining compliance with industry standards and safeguarding data privacy are essential to building trust and avoiding costly penalties.

Equally important are controls for identity and access management, defending against identity theft, and educating users on the risks of phishing, social engineering, and other forms of cybercrime. Technical measures like cryptography further protect sensitive data, while security awareness training empowers users to recognize and report suspicious activity.

Whether you're a small business or an enterprise, the key to long-term protection is layered defense, ongoing training, and a culture of security.

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