Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For years, security vendors have treated SIEM and XDR as two distinct pillars of their security stack - one built for broad log visibility and compliance, the other designed for high-fidelity detection and rapid response. However, as hybrid environments expanded and attackers began exploiting identity, endpoint, cloud, and network surfaces simultaneously, those boundaries blurred.

LinkedIn was never designed to be hostile. That’s precisely why it’s become attractive to attackers.

In the current AI gold rush, teams are rapidly standing up automation, AI orchestration, and integration platforms to move faster. In many cases, speed comes at the expense of visibility and security. This is where external attack surface management becomes critical. IONIX can identify and continuously monitor a wide range of AI-related and automation assets exposed to the internet, helping organizations understand what they are running, where it is exposed, and what risks it introduces.

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s worth pausing, not to slow down, but to reflect on how rapidly the mobile security landscape is evolving and what that evolution now demands from all of us. This year reinforced something we have long believed at Appknox: security can no longer be an isolated activity or a late-stage control. As mobile applications become more interconnected, AI-enabled, and globally distributed, security must operate continuously and at scale, without slowing teams down.

Forget the old-school spreadsheets. In the Agentic Era, a cybersecurity risk assessment is no longer a “once-a-year” event you do for the auditors. It is now a living, breathing strategy of Continuous Exposure Management (CEM). Think of it as a high-tech health check for your company’s digital life. It identifies where you’re bleeding data, who’s trying to cut you, and how to build a digital immune system that fights back.

Secrets run your applications: API keys, SSH keys, tokens, passwords, database credentials. They reside in repositories, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code templates, containers, and even chat logs; one stray commit is enough to expose a path into production. In 2024, abuse of valid account credentials was the initial access vector in roughly 30% of incidents investigated.

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been disclosed in n8n, a popular open-source workflow automation platform widely used to orchestrate business processes, SaaS integrations, and internal automation pipelines. Tracked as CVE-2025-68613, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.9 (Critical) and allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary system-level code on vulnerable n8n instances.