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Ever wonder what happens when attackers don't break the rules—they just follow them better than we do? When systems work exactly as they're built to, but that "by design" behavior quietly opens the door to risk? This week brings stories that make you stop and rethink what's truly under control. It's not always about a broken firewall or missed patch—it's about the small choices, default settings, and shortcuts that feel harmless until they're not. The real surprise? Sometimes the threat doesn't come from outside—it's baked right into how things are set up. Dive in to see what's quietly shaping today's security challenges. ⚡ Threat of the Week FBI Warns of Scattered Spider's on Airlines — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of a new set of attacks mounted by the notorious cybercrime group Scattered Spider targeting the airline sector using sophisticated social engineering techniques to obtain initial access. Cybersecurity vendors Palo Alto Networks Unit 4...

UPDATE: CVE-2022-23529 Retracted Following Review Auth0 and Unit 42 said they are formally retracting CVE-2022-23529 (CVSS score: 7.6) based on the fact that several prerequisites are essential for exploitation. The cybersecurity company said "important security checks" have been added to fix the problem. "The security issue remains a concern only when the jsonwebtoken library is used in an insecure way," the maintainers said in an advisory. "In such a scenario, if all the prerequisites are met, the issue may be exploitable; however, the source of this risk is the calling code and not the library itself." A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the open source jsonwebtoken (JWT) library that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution on a target server. "By exploiting this  vulnerability , attackers could achieve remote code execution (RCE) on a server verifying a maliciously crafted JSON web token (JWT) reques...