Scammers are opportunists. Nasty ones. They prey on the most fundamental human needs: Survival: Food, shelter, and securityConnection: Friendship, belonging, and community.On the surface, a food-assistance scam and a fake-friend scam may seem worlds apart. One promises food, the other companionship. But underneath, they follow the same psychological playbook: build trust, create urgency, extract...

I still remember the soft whir of the server room fans and that faint smell of ozone when we, a team of cybersecurity analysts, traced a spike in traffic to a “harmless” low-code workflow. A store manager had built a nifty dashboard to pull sales numbers. It looked tidy, almost playful – boxes, arrows, green check marks. Under the hood, it was hitting an internal API without proper authentication....

Amid a surge in cryptocurrency-related cybercrime, MITRE has unveiled AADAPT (Adversarial Actions in Digital Asset Payment Technologies), a brand-new framework designed to shore up cybersecurity weaknesses within digital financial systems such as cryptocurrency.How Does AADAPT Work?Following the construction of MITRE ATT&CK, AADAPT offers a methodology for identifying, analyzing, and mitigating...

NATO has fundamentally redefined what it means to defend the alliance. At the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague, allies made a commitment to investing 5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually on core defense requirements and defense and security-related spending by 2035. This represents a dramatic escalation from the previous 2% GDP benchmark. The commitment also includes a condition about how they...

A recent report states that Indian healthcare institutions face a total of 8,614 cyberattacks every week. That is more than four times the global average and over double the amount faced by any other industry in India.If the feeling was in the air before, the numbers leave no doubt; India’s healthcare sector is an irresistible target for today’s attackers.Indian Healthcare Leads the Pack in Rising...

Shadow IT is one of the most pressing issues in cybersecurity today. As more employees use unsanctioned browser extensions, productivity plugins, and generative AI tools, organizations are exposed to more risk.When these tools enter the environment without IT’s knowledge, they can create data exposure points, introduce new vulnerabilities, and make it easier for attackers to find privileged access...

Once the frontier of innovation, the cloud has become the battleground of operational discipline. As cloud complexity rises, the most common and costly security threats aren't advanced nation-state attacks. They're internal errors.According to the CSA's Top Threats to Cloud Computing Deep Dive 2025, more than half of reported cloud breaches stemmed from preventable issues like misconfigurations,...

We all know where vulnerability management fits into an overall security strategy; it provides the raw data that analysts use to figure out what’s wrong and what needs to be fixed. The problem is, traditional VM stops there – leaving analysts to do all the work.Today’s companies don’t have the luxury of doing that anymore. Experts are needed on the front lines, not vetting false positives, and VM...

Last year, Mexico was hit with 324 billion attempted cyberattacks, lending credence to the World Economic Forum's report that the country is the recipient of more than half of all cyber threats in Latin America.This does not bode well for the nation projected to rank 15th in world economies this year. The imperative is clear: Mexico and the businesses it supports need to bolster cybersecurity...

IoT is everywhere, quietly powering everything from smart thermostats in homes to complex systems in industrial networks. While these devices bring incredible convenience and innovation, they also open the door to significant cybersecurity risks, especially in manufacturing and similarly sensitive sectors.The longer devices stay online, the more likely they are to become vulnerable due to outdated...

On May 16th, 2025, the Japanese Parliament enacted a landmark piece of cybersecurity legislation: the Japan Active Cyberdefense Law. It was a historic moment for the country's digital defense, empowering law enforcement and military agencies to conduct pre-emptive cyber operations before they materialize.However, the law doesn't just affect Japan's internal security posture; it reflects a global...

It's no longer enough for CIOs to check boxes and tick off compliance milestones. The world has changed — and with it, the data privacy landscape.From the GDPR in Europe to California's CCPA, and now Brazil's LGPD and India's DPDP, the patchwork of privacy laws continues to expand. What was once a series of siloed regional regulations has become a living, breathing global challenge.For CIOs...

The frontlines of cybersecurity have long included the financial services sector, but today’s battlefield is increasingly asymmetric. Threat actors aren’t just going after the big-name banks with sprawling infrastructure and billion-dollar balance sheets. They’re targeting credit unions, wealth management firms, fintech startups, and insurance providers with the same determination and ferocity...

Software-as-a-Service adoption is exploding, but security teams are struggling to keep up. The Cloud Security Alliance’s 2025 SaaS Security Survey has revealed that while investment in and attention to SaaS security are on the rise, genuine control remains elusive, especially when it comes to configuration management, identity governance, and visibility.According to the report, most SaaS security...

Autonomous agents are changing the way we think about security. Not in the distant future, right now. These systems (intelligent, self-directed, and capable of making decisions) are starting to play an active role in the SOC. They’re not only collecting data; they’re analyzing it, correlating alerts, prioritizing risks, and even initiating response actions. This is Agentic AI, and it makes people...

Tripwire Enterprise 9.3.1 is now available for download in the Tripwire Customer Center. This is an out-of-band update initiated to address two issues discovered in our recent 9.3 release that we felt should be resolved before the next scheduled release cycle. We understand how critical it is for our customers to have accurate system information and reliable asset management capabilities, which is...

Picture this: you're scrolling through your company's social media feed, and suddenly a video shows your CEO endorsing a competitor's product. It looks real. The voice, the gestures, the background—it's all perfect. Or that same CEO calling you to urgently approve a strange payment.But you know, deep down, it never happened.Welcome to the world of deepfakes, where fabricated videos can throw even...

Phishing is no longer just an email problem. Reports state that 40% of phishing campaigns now span channels beyond email, hitting collaboration tools like Slack and Teams, plus SMS, and social media platforms. Voice phishing (“vishing”) in particular is on the rise: 30% of surveyed organizations reported at least one instance of attackers using spoofed or AI-cloned calls to steal credentials in...

Most financial sites don’t think twice about WAFs until a bot army drains their API or a misstep leaks trading data. That’s when panic sets in and puts the target service in the eye of a perfect storm. That’s why WAFs aren’t optional anymore; they’re your digital insurance policy.This piece will break down real-world threats like credential stuffing and parameter abuse that cripple fintech APIs,...

As the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)'s enforcement date approaches (October 2026), cybersecurity requirements on manufacturers, developers, and service providers responsible for software and hardware connected to the internet will need to start thinking - if they haven't already -about what they need to do to comply. It may seem like a long time off, but the earlier you start, the better...