CyberHoot Newsletter – October 2025

22nd October 2025 | Newsletters

Welcome to CyberHoot’s October Newsletter!

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this year’s theme couldn’t be clearer: stay alert, stay adaptive, and stay ahead. Cyber threats are evolving faster than ever, and this month’s CyberHoot articles dive straight into the issues that matter most.

We unpack Klopatra, a dangerous new Android trojan that secretly drains bank accounts through hidden remote access. We explore how a single reused password can unravel your entire digital life, and we show how automated vulnerability scanning and penetration testing can help build true cyber resilience. Finally, as AI adoption accelerates across industries, we break down five essential rules for using AI safely without putting your business or data at risk.

Read on, stay sharp, and keep your defenses strong.

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Klopatra: New Android Trojan Drains Bank Accounts via Hidden VNC

New Android trojan Klopatra uses hidden VNC to steal banking credentials and bypass security. Learn how to protect your devices and stop threats from impacting you.

When One Password Ends It All

Learn how one weak password destroyed a 158-year-old company and how training users on password managers and passkey adoption can better protect your business.

Automated Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing Boost Cyber Resilience

Discover how automated pentesting can accelerate vulnerability management and boost your company’s Cyber Resilience.

Safe AI Adoption: Five Rules Every Business Must Follow

Discover the five essential rules for adopting AI securely while protecting sensitive data, reducing risks, and ensuring compliance.

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Cybrary Term of the Month:

Identity Management (IDM)

Identity Management (IDM) is the framework of policies, processes, and technologies used to ensure the right individuals have the right access to the right resources at the right time, and for the right reasons. IDM covers user provisioning, authentication, authorization, password management, and access governance across systems, applications, and data.

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Recently Added Features

General Release Notes

Added ‘Allow Training with Friends’ setting to customers for new train with friends feature.
Created ‘Train with friends’ system for my cyber rankings where users can send friends requests to see each others training activity.
Added advanced AttackPhish features that will give Admins the ability to select send by days, end campaign days, and auto-training actions.
Added annual and semi-annual to AttackPhish flex scheduling.
Updated AttackPhish emails to only run between 9am-5pm based on customer’s time zone.
Added dark web settings with the ability to enable/disable user emails. Added dark web user emails to custom messaging. Made dark web a core power up.
Added user compliance breakdown to my workgroup.
Added the abilitiy to view which AttackPhish email was sent to each user in Autopilot.
Redesigned customer dashboard page in Autopilot.
Added the ability to support multiple languages of library videos.
Added view AttackPhish feature to phishing library table in Power.
Added AttackPhish preview action in phishing table and updated campaign view icon in Power.
Added weekly check that will check all email addresses on suppression list and automatically remove them if they are found to be valid.
Added logging to who was removed from the suppression list and when.
Added ability to export email logs and suppression list to CSV.
Added Google Sync improvements and timing optimizations.

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