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Nicholas de Jong

Improving cybersecurity outcomes in the Philippines, one post at a time.

📍 Manila, Philippines https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasdejong

CyberSecurity.PH #042

Multiple APT groups using Windows shortcut exploit; Chain of compromised GitHub Actions; MS365 accounts targeted via OAuth; Apache Tomcat remote code execution; Velociraptor triage collector for Windows; Threat hunting for suspect M365 OAuth Apps

CyberSecurity.PH #041

Philippine Army confirms hack; Chinese Lotus Panda threat-group targeting APAC; FBI confirms Lazarus responsible for Bybit heist; Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Windows KDC; VMware actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities; more cybersecurity tools and engineering

CyberSecurity.PH #040

7,000 people rescued from scam-centres; AI-powered threat detection and continuous scanning; Ghidra, AWS-Key-Hunter, AI ASCII-Smuggling-Hidden-Prompt-Injection; China sponsored Salt Typhoon threat actors continue to breach organizations; Threat actors tricking users linking Signal

CyberSecurity.PH #039

AI technologies; Malicious VPN installers; Fake wedding invites and Android malware; Thai arrest in $182m romance scam; Cracked and Nulled forums seized; Juniper backdoors in the wild; SonicWall critical vulnerability

Understanding modes-of-threat in DeepSeek and other AI technologies

The term "DeepSeek" is being used flexibly and in reference to more than one thing. This is confusing in the cyber security context since it means the "DeepSeek" risks are different things to different people.

CyberSecurity.PH #038

Claimed NBI data compromise; Chinese national for spying on critical infrastructure; 15,000 FortiGate VPN credentials leaked; CISA playbook for MS365 logs; CISA bad product practices; Another Fortinet authentication bypass vulnerability

CyberSecurity.PH #037

Chinese threat-actors target Philippine Executive branch and US Treasury; 30+ Chrome plugins hack, millions of users at risk; GuardDog PyPi/NPM scanner; Critical vulnerabilities in Apache, Oracle, Mitel, Ivanti and SonicWall

CyberSecurity.PH #036

Salt Typhoon targeting Southeast Asia telecoms; POGOs re-spawning as BPOs; Predatory money loan apps; Solana web3.js backdoor; Safeline self hosted WAF; Critical vulnerabilities in SailPoint, Veeam, WhatsUp and Cleantalk

CyberSecurity.PH #035

eGovPH hack not real; US and PH military information sharing; China abusing GSM to infiltrate telecom networks; Five eyes provide top-15 exploits; Critical Windows Kerberos vulnerability; Apple Releases urgent patches; Palo Alto Authentication bypass; Wordpress plugin exploit enables admin access

CyberSecurity.PH #034

Multi-cloud security testing tool; Awesome GPT agents for cybersecurity; DocuSign abused to send authentic looking invoices; Synology urges updates for critical zero-click RCE; 22k addresses taken down in INTERPOL operation; Signed Remote Desktop Protocol files from Russia; Google Researchers ...