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Infostealer crackdown: Operation Secure takes down 20,000 malicious IPs and domains
More than 20,000 malicious IP addresses and domains used by information-stealing malware were taken down during an international cybercrime crackdown led by INTERPOL. Called …

AI forces IT leaders to rethink their network strategies
As AI assistants, agents, and data-driven workloads reshape how work gets done, they’re creating more latency-sensitive, and more complex network traffic, according to Cisco. …

86% of all LLM usage is driven by ChatGPT
ChatGPT remains the most widely used LLM among New Relic customers, making up over 86% of all tokens processed. Developers and enterprises are shifting to OpenAI’s latest …

Webinar: Cloud security made easy with CIS Hardened Images
This webinar is designed for leadership and management professionals looking to enhance their organization’s security posture in the cloud. The authors explore CIS …

Securing agentic AI systems before they go rogue
In this Help Net Security video, Eoin Wickens, Director of Threat Intelligence at HiddenLayer, explores the security risks posed by agentic AI. He breaks down how agentic AI …

Cloud and AI drive efficiency, but open doors for attackers
AI adoption is increasing, with 84% of organizations now using AI in the cloud, according to Orca Security. But this innovation comes with new risks: 62% of organizations have …

Enterprise SIEMs miss 79% of known MITRE ATT&CK techniques
Using the MITRE ATT&CK framework as a baseline, organizations are generally improving year-over-year in understanding security information and event management (SIEM) …

Employees repeatedly fall for vendor email compromise attacks
In just 12 months, attackers attempted to steal more than $300 million via vendor email compromise (VEC), with 7% of engagements coming from employees who had engaged with a …

Week in review: Google fixes exploited Chrome zero-day, Patch Tuesday forecast
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: June 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Second time is the charm? Microsoft has …

145 criminal domains linked to BidenCash Marketplace seized
Approximately 145 darknet and conventional internet domains, along with cryptocurrency funds linked to the BidenCash marketplace, have been seized by the U.S. Attorney’s …

June 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Second time is the charm?
June 2025 Patch Tuesday is now live: Microsoft fixes zero-day exploited for cyber espionage (CVE-2025-33053) Microsoft has been busy releasing more out-of-band (OOB) patches …

AI becomes key player in enterprise ransomware defense
Ransomware breaches continue to rise even as fewer victims pay, according to a Delinea report. 69% of organizations globally have fallen victim to ransomware, with 27% being …
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