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March 17, 2025
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SANS Institute Warns of Novel Cloud-Native Ransomware Attacks

March 17, 2025
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⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Router Hacks, PyPI Attacks, New Ransomware Decryptor, and More

March 17, 2025
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GitHub Action Compromise Puts CI/CD Secrets at Risk in Over 23,000 Repositories

March 15, 2025
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Malicious PyPI Packages Stole Cloud Tokens—Over 14,100 Downloads Before Removal

March 14, 2025
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Alleged Israeli LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Extradited to U.S. for Cybercrime Charges

March 14, 2025
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GSMA Confirms End-to-End Encryption for RCS, Enabling Secure Cross-Platform Messaging

March 14, 2025
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Why Most Microsegmentation Projects Fail—And How Andelyn Biosciences Got It Right

March 14, 2025
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Live Ransomware Demo: See How Hackers Breach Networks and Demand a Ransom

March 14, 2025
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New MassJacker Malware Targets Piracy Users, Hijacking Cryptocurrency Transactions

March 14, 2025
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OBSCURE#BAT Malware Uses Fake CAPTCHA Pages to Deploy Rootkit r77 and Evade Detection

What Are AI SOC Agents? Use Cases, Architecture, and the Leading Vendors June 19, 2026
The Alert Volume Problem That Created This Category The SANS 2025 Global SOC Survey found that 85% of SOCs trigger incident response primarily from endpoint alerts, while 42% admit to ingesting all data into their SIEM with no structured plan for retrieval or analysis. Volume has outpaced human capacity, and the gap between alerts fired […]
Katrina Thompson
AI-Powered Attacks Become Top Concern for Security Professionals, New Filigran Survey Reveals June 19, 2026
AI-powered attacks are the biggest cybersecurity concern among security professionals. Forty-one percent identified AI-powered attacks at scale as their biggest security concern, nearly double the number citing supply chain risk (21%) or unknown threats (21%). AI-driven threats and what security professionals are doing about them is also the top concern for nearly one in three […]
Kirsten Doyle
ShinyHunters targets Oracle PeopleSoft customers through critical zero-day June 19, 2026
Oracle has issued a security alert to customers about a critical vulnerability affecting PeopleSoft environments after the notorious threat actor ShinyHunters claimed it used a previously unknown flaw to compromise over 100 entities. The vulnerability CVE-2026-35273 is in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools, and has a CVSS score of 9.8/10. “Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications customers may also […]
Kirsten Doyle
SIG report: AI-generated code is linked to twice the security risk and rising technical debt June 11, 2026
AI-supported coding has progressed from experimental to the norm in organizations, yet technical debt, security risks, and costs could be piling up much faster than anyone realizes. This is one of the key takeaways from the Software Improvement Group (SIG) 2026 State of Software report, which analyzed more than 30,000 software systems and more than […]
Kirsten Doyle
Miasma worm spreads from Red Hat packages to Microsoft repositories June 11, 2026
A rapidly developing software supply chain attack known as Miasma is one of the latest to move from targeting Red Hat npm packages to infecting numerous Microsoft GitHub repositories. Cloudsmith researchers described the Miasma attack, noting it began after the compromise of the GitHub account of a Red Hat employee, which enabled attackers to use […]
Kirsten Doyle
Zero Trust: Beyond the hype, toward reality June 9, 2026
Security is approaching Zero Trust all wrong. Vendors are promising too much and delivering too little. Marketing hype has overtaken practical security, and organizations are chasing an idea of Zero Trust that doesn’t (and arguably shouldn’t) exist in reality. The result is confusion, frustration, and initiatives that stall long before they meaningfully reduce risks. If […]
Mieng Lim
From AI hype to operational reality: A practitioner’s framework for securing agentic systems June 5, 2026
Most organizations already have AI governance discussions underway. They have policies, working groups, acceptable-use guidance, and long lists of principles around responsible AI adoption. But as enterprises move deeper into agentic AI, many security teams are discovering that governance alone doesn’t translate into operational control. That gap is becoming increasingly dangerous. AI systems are no […]
Art Poghosyan
The missing link in cyber resilience: Bridging the identity visibility gap June 4, 2026
The enterprise security perimeter didn’t evolve; it dissolved, and what replaced it isn’t a newer, stronger boundary. It’s the absence of one. Today’s environment is dynamic and borderless, defined not by firewalls or network segments, but by identities: human users, service accounts, APIs, bots, workloads, and AI agents. Every access request, every system interaction, every […]
David Canellos
Dutch police, NCSC take down major botnet June 4, 2026
A collaboration between the Dutch National Police and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has seen a large botnet being shut down. In this operation, 200 servers were identified and addressed as well. These servers controlled millions of infected devices, from computers to phones, and were used to carry out cyberattacks. A security researcher first […]
Kirsten Doyle
Palo Alto warns of active exploitation of GlobalProtect authentication bypass flaw June 2, 2026
Palo Alto Networks has alerted customers about the ongoing exploitation of the authentication bypass vulnerability in PAN-OS GlobalProtect. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0257, lets unauthenticated actors bypass security measures and set up unsanctioned connections to vulnerable GlobalProtect portals and gateways. A high CVSS score of 7.8 was assigned for this vulnerability. This issue was first […]
Kirsten Doyle

Category: Blog

SANS Institute Warns of Novel Cloud-Native Ransomware Attacks

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Router Hacks, PyPI Attacks, New Ransomware Decryptor, and More

GitHub Action Compromise Puts CI/CD Secrets at Risk in Over 23,000 Repositories

Malicious PyPI Packages Stole Cloud Tokens—Over 14,100 Downloads Before Removal

Alleged Israeli LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Extradited to U.S. for Cybercrime Charges

GSMA Confirms End-to-End Encryption for RCS, Enabling Secure Cross-Platform Messaging

Why Most Microsegmentation Projects Fail—And How Andelyn Biosciences Got It Right

Live Ransomware Demo: See How Hackers Breach Networks and Demand a Ransom

New MassJacker Malware Targets Piracy Users, Hijacking Cryptocurrency Transactions

OBSCURE#BAT Malware Uses Fake CAPTCHA Pages to Deploy Rootkit r77 and Evade Detection

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