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Report Finds Just 1% of Security Flaws Drive Most Cyberattacks in 2025
New VulnCheck research reveals that while thousands of CVEs are discovered yearly, only 1% drive real-world impact...
From Ransomware to Residency: Inside the Rise of the Digital Parasite
Are ransomware and encryption still the defining signals of modern cyberattacks, or has the industry been too fixated on noise while missing a more dangerous shift happening quietly all around them? According to Picus Labs’ new Red Report 2026, which analyzed over 1.1 million malicious files and...
A Defender-Attacker-Defender Model for Optimizing the Resilience of Hospital Networks to Cyberattacks
Considering the increasing frequency of cyberattacks affecting multiple hospitals simultaneously, improving resilience at a network level is essential. Various countermeasures exist to improve resilience against cyberattacks, such as deploying controls that strengthen IT infrastructures to limit...
A Cyberattack Was Part of the US Assault on Venezuela
We don't have many details: President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that the U.S. used cyberattacks or other technical capabilities to cut power off in Caracas during strikes on the Venezuelan capital that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. If true, it would mark one of...
Reports About Cyberattacks Against Cisco Secure Email Gateway And Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager
On December 10, Cisco became aware of a new cyberattack campaign targeting a limited subset of appliances with certain ports open to the internet that are running Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager. This attack allows the threat actors to...
AI Toys for Kids Talk About Sex, Drugs, and Chinese Propaganda
Plus: Travelers to the US may have to hand over five years of social media history, South Korean CEOs are resigning due to cyberattacks, and more...
Ukrainian Woman in US Custody for Aiding Russian NoName057 Hacker Group
Ukrainian national Victoria Dubranova is in U.S. custody, accused of supporting Russian hacker group NoName057 in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. She has pleaded not guilty...
How to build forward-thinking cybersecurity teams for tomorrow
We are witnessing something unprecedented in cybersecurity: the democratization of advanced cyberattack capabilities. What once required nation-state resources sophisticated social engineering, polymorphic malware, coordinated infrastructure now fits in a prompt window. AI is no longer a futurist...
The Dark Side of Flexibility: How Aggregated Cyberattacks Threaten the Power Grid
Flexible energy resources are increasingly becoming common in smart grids. These resources are typically managed and controlled by aggregators that coordinate many resources to provide flexibility services. However, these aggregators and flexible energy resources are vulnerable, which could allow...
Cyberattacks on UK water systems reveal rising risks to critical infrastructure
Digital intruders have been targeting UK drinking water systems in what seems to be a growing risk. Recorded Future News sent a request to the UK's Drinking Water Inspectorate DWI, the organization responsible for ensuring that drinking water is safe, for details on cyberattacks affecting the...
Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Suspect Extradited to US from Ireland
Ukrainian man accused of helping run Conti ransomware extradited from Ireland to the U.S. to face charges over global cyberattacks and $150M in ransom payments...
Extortion and ransomware drive over half of cyberattacks
In 80% of the cyber incidents Microsoft’s security teams investigated last year, attackers sought to steal data—a trend driven more by financial gain than intelligence gathering. According to the latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report, written with our Chief Information Security Officer Igor...
The importance of hardening customer support tools against cyberattacks
The Deputy CISO blog series is whereMicrosoft Deputy Chief Information Security Officers CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start and stop deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the...
OpenAI Finds Growing Exploitation of AI Tools by Foreign Threat Groups
OpenAI's new report warns hackers are combining multiple AI tools for cyberattacks, scams, and influence ops linked to China, Russia, and North Korea...
What Recent Cyber Attacks Reveal About Readiness in 2025
When we last wrote about the rising tide of cyberattacks hitting the retail sector, the headlines were already sobering: disruption at major brands, ransomware claims, and attackers showing a deep understanding of how to break into systems and exploit trust. But that was just the beginning. Since...
Two UK Teenagers Charged Over TfL Hack Linked to Scattered Spider
Two UK teens have been charged in connection with the TfL hack, as investigators link them to Scattered Spider cyberattacks and data breaches...
UK and US Blame Three Chinese Tech Firms for Global Cyberattacks
A coalition of international cybersecurity agencies led by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has publicly linked…...
From Impact to Action: Turning BIA Insights Into Resilient Recovery
Modern businesses face a rapidly evolving and expanding threat landscape, but what does this mean for your business? It means a growing number of risks, along with an increase in their frequency, variety, complexity, severity, and potential business impact. The real question is, “How do you tackl...
