Cisco Secure Email Gateway Zero-Day Exploited Again

Cisco Secure Email Gateway zero-day CVE-2026-76519: steel inspection box with an envelope in its slot and orange light leaking out

A Cisco Secure Email Gateway zero-day is under attack: one email with a crafted attachment lets an unauthenticated attacker write files and run commands as root. Cisco tracks it as CVE-2026-76519 (CVSS 9.8), and CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 14. It is the second Secure Email Gateway flaw exploited…

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DACH Threat Landscape 2026: What SMEs Must Know

DACH region 2026 cyber threat landscape overview for German, Austrian and Swiss companies

A ransomware incident can halt a production line, disrupt a logistics network or leave a clinic scrambling to access essential systems. Across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, those risks are no longer hypothetical. ENISA’s 2025 Threat Landscape report names ransomware as the most disruptive and economically damaging activity in the EU, while hacktivist activity, most of…

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TerminalFix ClickFix Attack Campaign Hits Germany

A TerminalFix ClickFix attack campaign compromised a German state institution, BSI confirms — heise links it to Berlin's Rhysida actor cluster.

A TerminalFix ClickFix attack campaign has compromised a German state institution’s network, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) confirmed on September 4. TerminalFix is an evolution of the ClickFix social-engineering technique: a fake CAPTCHA tricks a user into pasting a command, but instead of the old single-machine Run-dialog trick, it opens Windows Terminal and…

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SonicWall SMA1000 RCE Vulnerability: Patch Now

SonicWall SMA1000 RCE vulnerability

A new SonicWall SMA1000 RCE vulnerability is under active exploitation: an unauthenticated server-side request forgery chained with an OS command injection lets an attacker take full root-level control of the appliance with no login required. CISA added both flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 2, with a federal deadline of September 5,…

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Identity Theft in Germany: What SMEs Need to Know

Identity theft and stolen credentials drive most cybercrime in Germany

Germany’s cybercrime problem has a number attached to it: an estimated €202.4 billion in damage to the German economy for the 2025 reporting period, around 4.5 percent of GDP, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office’s (BKA) latest Bundeslagebild Cybercrime report. Behind much of that damage sits a quieter but persistent issue: identity theft in…

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