Leaking Secrets in the Age of AI

How has AI-assisted development impacted secrets leakage? Learn the new patterns and emerging trends...

Rapid7 Q1 2025 Incident Response Findings

Rapid7’s Q1 2025 incident response data highlights several key initial access vector IAV trends, shares salient examples of incidents investigated by the Rapid7 Incident Response IR team, and digs into threat data by industry as well as some of the more commonly seen pieces of malware appearing i...

Flowable’s Smart Automation Tools Are Reshaping How Enterprises Operate in 2025

As more businesses face pressure to do more with fewer resources, automation platforms like Flowable are becoming central…...

CISO Spotlight: Mike Wilkes on Building Resilience in an Evolving Threat Landscape

Mike Wilkes has had a career many cybersecurity professionals could only dream of. An adjunct professor, former CISO of Marvel and MLS, member of the World Economic Forum, drummer, and board member at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, his interests and achievements are as eclectic as they are...

Top Scams in Affiliate Marketing to Know in 2025

Affiliate marketing is a powerful tool for promoting brands. However, with its popularity gaining traction, more dishonest affiliate…...

Malicious code in nuget-trends (npm)

The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity. --- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware e15d8438aa8bc3250a81a056153ed3922c2857a17e24e289a90822ae2362acfa Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered...

MAL-2025-4573 Malicious code in nuget-trends (npm)

The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity. --- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware e15d8438aa8bc3250a81a056153ed3922c2857a17e24e289a90822ae2362acfa Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered...

LLM-Driven APT Detection for 6G Wireless Networks: a Systematic Review and Taxonomy

Sixth Generation 6G wireless networks, which are expected to be deployed in the 2030s, have already created great excitement in academia and the private sector with their extremely high communication speed and low latency rates. However, despite the ultra-low latency, high throughput, and...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Inside the Mind of an Attacker

In one of the most anticipated sessions of Take Command 2025, Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at Rapid7, sat down with Trent Teyema, former FBI Special Agent and President of CSG Strategies, for a candid conversation on how threat actors are evolving and what defenders must do to keep up. Moderated b...

Threat landscape for industrial automation systems in Q1 2025

Trends Relative stability from quarter to quarter. The percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked remained unchanged from Q4 2024 at 21.9%. Over the last three quarters, the value has ranged from 22.0% to 21.9%. The quarterly figures are decreasing from year to year. Sinc...

UK Finfluencers: Exploring Content, Reach, and Responsibility

The rise of social media financial influencers finfluencers has significantly transformed the personal finance landscape, making financial advice and insights more accessible to a broader and younger audience. By leveraging digital platforms, these influencers have contributed to the...

What Analyzing Hundreds of Thousands of Cloud Environments Taught Us About Data Exposure

Wiz Research reveals the latest cloud data security trends across hundreds of thousands of real-world environments...

State of ransomware in 2025

Global ransomware trends and numbers With the International Anti-Ransomware Day just around the corner on May 12, Kaspersky explores the ever-changing ransomware threat landscape and its implications for cybersecurity. According to Kaspersky Security Network data, the number of ransomware...

Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure

People are using ChatGPT’s new image generator to take part in viral social media trends. But using it also puts your privacy at risk—unless you take a few simple steps to protect yourself...

AI and Resilience Take the Spotlight in 2025: Key Trends from Gartner® Cybersecurity Research

Cybersecurity has never stood still — but in 2025, it’s not just evolving. It’s transforming. Cybersecurity has entered a pivotal new phase. According to Gartner®, Top Trends in Cybersecurity for 2025 , “Security and risk management SRM leaders must enable business value and double down on...

Evaluating Argon2 Adoption and Effectiveness in Real-World Software

Modern password hashing remains a critical defense against credential cracking, yet the transition from theoretically secure algorithms to robust real-world implementations remains fraught with challenges. This paper presents a dual analysis of Argon2, the Password Hashing Competition winner,...

Year in Review: The biggest trends in ransomware

This week, our Year in Review spotlight is on ransomware --where low-profile tactics led to high-impact consequences. Ransomware operators often prioritized stealth over complexity for initial access. They also focused on slipping past defenses with minimal noise--uninstalling security tools,...

Year in Review: In conversation with the report's authors

🎥 Talos Year in Review 2024: Part 1 & 2 - Watch Now! Another year, another mountain of malicious telemetry to sift through. I spoke with a few of Talos' Year in Review authors, freshly out of the sandbox, to discuss the how's and why's of our biggest findings. 👉 Part 1: The major theme of 2024, t...

DDoS Attack Trends in 2024 Signify That Sophistication Overshadows Size

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One mighty fine-looking report

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. They say art is subjective, but have you ever seen a well-formatted bar chart? Van Gogh had Starry Night , but Talos' 2024 Year in Review available now! has color-coded data with perfect labels. True beauty. If you haven't yet had a...