Stablecoins: Always-On Money Needs Always-On Controls

Stablecoins are becoming the money layer for the always-on economy...

Financial cyberthreats in 2025 and the outlook for 2026

In 2025, the financial cyberthreat landscape continued to evolve. While traditional PC banking malware declined in relative prevalence, this shift was offset by the rapid growth of credential theft by infostealers. Attackers increasingly relied on aggregation and reuse of stolen data, rather than...

24/7 Payments for 24/7 Agents: The Case for Crypto in the Machine Economy

Crypto enables 24/7 payments for AI agents, replacing fiat limits with scalable machine-to-machine transactions and powering the emerging machine economy...

Pig butchering is the next “humanitarian global crisis” (Lock and Code S06E25)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … This is the story of the world's worst scam and how it is being used to fuel entire underground economies that have the power to rival nation-states across the globe. This is the story of "pig butchering." "Pig butchering" is a violent term that is used to...

Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices

In his 2020 book, "Future Politics , " British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was "How much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society?" But in the early decades of this century,...

From Extortion to E-commerce: How Ransomware Groups Turn Breaches into Bidding Wars

Ransomware has evolved from simple digital extortion into a structured, profit-driven criminal enterprise. Over time, it has led to the development of a complex ecosystem where stolen data is not only leveraged for ransom, but also sold to the highest bidder. This trend first gained traction in...

It’s not personal, it’s just business

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. This week, we explore how advances in agentic AI are rapidly transforming the cyber crime business. Agentic AI programming gives AI agents autonomy, allowing them to interact with external systems to collect information, make decisio...

Inside the dark web job market

In 2022, we published our research examining how IT specialists look for work on the dark web. Since then, the job market has shifted, along with the expectations and requirements placed on professionals. However, recruitment and headhunting on the dark web remain active. So, what does this job...

When Attacks Come Faster Than Patches: Why 2026 Will be the Year of Machine-Speed Security

The Race for Every New CVE Based on multiple 2025 industry reports: roughly 50 to 61 percent of newly disclosed vulnerabilities saw exploit code weaponized within 48 hours. Using the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog as a reference, hundreds of software flaws are now confirmed as...

The Business of Cybercrime: Raj Samani on Access, Ransomware, and What Comes Next

Cybercrime is no longer chaotic, it’s commercial. That’s the central theme of Episode 3 in our Experts on Experts: Commanding Perspectives series, where Craig Adams sits down with Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at Rapid7, for a wide-ranging, no-nonsense conversation on today’s threat economy. They...

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Inside the Ransomware Economy in 2025: Q2 Trends & Key Insights You Need to Know

Building on insights from Rapid7’s Q1 and Q2 2025 ransomware trend reports, it’s clear that the ransomware economy continues to evolve – and not just in volume, but also in business maturity. As threat actors shift tactics, tools, and partnerships, defenders face a complex landscape shaped by...

SecurePay: Enabling Secure and Fast Payment Processing for Platform Economy

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of platform economy, as it effectively addresses the trust dilemma between untrusted online buyers and merchants. However, malicious platforms can misuse users' funds and information, causing severe security concerns. Previous research efforts aimed...

Lucid PhaaS Hits 169 Targets in 88 Countries Using iMessage and RCS Smishing

A new sophisticated phishing-as-a-service PhaaS platform called Lucid has targeted 169 entities in 88 countries using smishing messages propagated via Apple iMessage and Rich Communication Services RCS for Android. Lucid's unique selling point lies in its weaponizing of legitimate communication...

Securing APIs While Navigating Today’s Booming API Economy

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TikTok comes one step closer to a US ban

The US Senate has approved a bill that would effectively ban TikTok from the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance gives up its share of the immensely popular app. Social video platform TikTok has experienced explosive growth since it first appeared in 2017, and is now said to have well over 1.5...

Top 6 Data Breaches That Cost Millions

“If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too. Criminals are using every technology tool at their disposal to hack into people’s accounts. If they know there’s a key hidden somewhere, they won’t stop until they find it.” - Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc. The entire digital...

economy-courses.univ-setif.dz Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3870094

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

A Comprehensive Assessment of the General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD)

Most nations need to protect sensitive data for any number of reasons. Assuring legal compliance, protecting national security, preventing abuse and prejudice, improving global competitiveness, and upholding ethical standards are all vital requirements. Data privacy enhances the safety, security,...

CFPB’s Proposed Data Rules

In October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB proposed a set of rules that if implemented would transform how financial institutions handle personal data about their customers. The rules put control of that data back in the hands of ordinary Americans, while at the same time undermini...