Cybersecurity experts at Sophos X-Ops have uncovered a new social engineering campaign that relies on a tactic dubbed ‘TerminalFix’ to compromise enterprise networks. After Microsoft successfully disrupted fraudulent certificate-signing services earlier this year, threat actors quickly pivoted to alternative methods to infiltrate corporate environments. The latest research details how attackers now deceive users into manually pasting malicious commands into Windows Terminal, triggering a comple
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Cybersecurity experts at Sophos X-Ops have uncovered a new social engineering campaign that relies on a tactic dubbed ‘TerminalFix’ to compromise enterprise networks. After Microsoft successfully disrupted fraudulent certificate-signing services earlier this year, threat actors quickly pivoted to alternative methods to infiltrate corporate environments. The latest research details how attackers now deceive users into manually pasting malicious commands into Windows Terminal, triggering a comple
Attacker Breakout Time refers to the time it takes for an intruder to begin moving laterally outside of the initial beachhead to other systems in the network. Threat actors are accelerating their attacks and adopting innovative new ways to circumvent endpoint detection mechanisms, according to a new report from ReliaQuest. The threat intelligence vendor claimed in its latest Threat Spotlight report for the period June–August 2025 that the average breakout time dropped to only 18 minutes. One
