SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 7th, 2025: Sextortion Update; Adobe and Trend Micro release emergency patches
Update: 2025-08-07
Description
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 escalation
https://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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