Widely available AI tools signal new era of malicious bot activity
Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale, according to Thales. …
Microsoft vulnerabilities: What’s improved, what’s at risk
Microsoft reported a record 1,360 vulnerabilities in 2024, according to the latest BeyondTrust Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. The volume marks an 11% increase from the …
Browser extensions make nearly every employee a potential attack vector
Despite being present on virtually every employee’s browser, extensions are rarely monitored by security teams or controlled by IT, according to LayerX. Most extensions have …
94% of firms say pentesting is essential, but few are doing it right
Organizations are fixing less than half of all exploitable vulnerabilities, with just 21% of GenAI app flaws being resolved, according to Cobalt. Big firms take longer to fix …
Organizations can’t afford to be non-compliant
Non-compliance can cost organizations 2.71 times more than maintaining compliance programs, according to Secureframe. That’s because non-compliance can result in business …
Ransomware groups push negotiations to new levels of uncertainty
Ransomware attacks increased by nearly 20% in 2024, and the severity rose by 13%, according to At-Bay. The blast radius of ransomware continues to grow as businesses impacted …
iOS devices face twice the phishing attacks of Android
2024 brought about countless new cybersecurity challenges including significant growth of the mobile threat landscape, according to Lookout. Threat actors, ranging from …
AI is challenging the geopolitical status quo
AI-powered cyberattacks are becoming powerful new weapons. Organizations need to act fast to close the gap between today’s defenses and tomorrow’s threats. These attacks are …
Cyberattacks on water and power utilities threaten public safety
62% of utility operators were targeted by cyberattacks in the past year, and of those, 80% were attacked multiple times, according to Semperis. 54% suffered permanent …
Benefits from privacy investment are greater than the cost
Cisco released its 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study. The report looks at global trends in data privacy and how they affect businesses. The study gathered responses from 2,600 …
Cybercriminals exfiltrate data in just three days
In 56% of Sophos managed detection and response (MDR) and incident response (IR) cases, attackers gained initial access to networks by exploiting external remote services, …
Open-source malware doubles, data exfiltration attacks dominate
There’s been a notable shift in the types of threats targeting software developers, with a total of 17,954 open source malware packages identified in Q1 2025, according …