This Week in Cybersecurity (2025-11-24): Enterprise Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence

Enterprise Lens

Ransomware risk is HIGH with notable incidents across manufacturing (LG Energy Solution), retail/consumer (Under Armour), and gaming/gambling (IGT).
Identity and perimeter exploitation is increasing as we saw this week with the Oracle Identity Manager and Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited.
Chrome + 7-Zip exploitation in progress because the tools provided higher attacker success on poorly patched endpoints.
AI governance is being driven by GDPR/AI regulatory tension that will expand to the US.

Everest, Akira, and Qilin activity this week reinforces the trend of data theft first, encryption second.
Energy, manufacturing, and gaming sectors all reported major incidents this week, supporting a sustained increased Threat Event Frequency (TEF) level.

Oracle Identity Manager zero-day exploitation highlights threat actors interest in IAM platforms.
Identity compromise continues to be the single most common precursor to ransomware and privilege escalation.

Chrome and 7-Zip vulnerabilities are being weaponized, increasing endpoint compromise potential.

GDPR/AI reform discussions (EU) forecast increased scrutiny on personal data use in AI assisted decision making, modeling, and analytics.

Patch FortiWeb, Oracle Identity Manager, Chrome, 7-Zip, and Microsoft’s actively exploited CVEs.
Strengthen MFA enforcement and session-token protections.
Validate vendor outage contingency plans, especially in manufacturing, energy, and regulated gaming/payments.

Expand identity hardening for privileged access, continuous authentication, and passwordless roadmap.
Build an AI data governance matrix aligned to upcoming EU and global AI regulations (US only companies should not ignore this as it is coming to the US quickly).
Conduct ransomware tabletop exercises that simulate double extortion and negotiation workflow breakdowns.