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This Patch Cadence, Asset Visibility, and OT Governance August 2025 Cyber Briefing consolidates multiple security items from mid August 2025 into a single analysis focused on patching, vulnerabilities, asset inventory, governance, OT and IT exposure, ransomware driven data exfiltration, threat intelligence, enforcement trends, ghost tapping retail fraud, Zeppelin enforcement activity, ERMAC evolution, and the madeYouReset HTTP 2 weakness. The briefing presents core facts and a detailed analysis to support informed risk assessment and strategic planning.

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From Privacy Tool to Spyware The FreeVPN.One Chrome Extension Case examines how a popular browser-extension marketed as a privacy aid became a vehicle for covert surveillance and large scale data-exfiltration. This analysis covers who was involved, what occurred, when changes were introduced, where data flowed, why the deception mattered, and how the technical flow enabled persistent data-collection and screenshot capture. Keywords integrated throughout include spyware, data-exfiltration, data-collection, browser-extension, chrome-web-store, privacy, surveillance, fake-feature, ai-threat-detection, attacker-infrastructure.

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QuirkyLoader Unveiled A Modular Malware Loader Delivering Multi-Payload Attacks presents a concise and detailed picture of a modular loader observed since November 2024. This investigation synthesizes technical analysis and campaign reporting to explain how quirkyloader operates as a loader that leverages dll-side-loading, process-hollowing, aot compiled dotnet components and a flexible payload catalog that includes agent-tesla, asyncrat, snake-keylogger, remcos-rat, formbook, masslogger and rhadamanthys-stealer. The following material integrates threat-intelligence from ibm-x-force and related research while preserving evidence on email-spam delivery, targeted-campaigns, memory-resident execution, native-like-binaries appearance and high-level implications for credential-theft, keystroke capture and data-exfiltration.