Actionable Intelligence

The provided are excerpts from the “KeysGuard Night Owl” Daily Intelligence Report dated October 16, 2025, which functions as an actionable cybersecurity brief for security professionals. The sources highlight several urgent threats, beginning with the critical nature of Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday, which involved actively exploited Windows zero-day vulnerabilities and marked the end of regular support for Windows 10. A major focus is placed on an ongoing, large-scale extortion campaign targeting Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) customers through application endpoint exploitation, for which the report provides technical indicators and immediate defensive hunting queries. Additionally, the report addresses the continuing risk from an older Chrome zero-day and provides detection guidance, including Sigma rules, for high-severity 7-Zip path traversal risks. Overall, the documents summarize the current threat landscape, offering executive summaries, critical alerts, and detailed defensive actions for rapid deployment.