Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Handala Hack Team, also stylized as Handala_hack, is a hacktivist threat group aligned with pro-Palestinian messaging and Iranian strategic interests. It emerged in December 2023 following the escalation of the Gaza conflict, shortly after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, presenting itself as a pro-Palestinian hacktivist collective. Its operations closely mirror Iranian state-linked activity and indicate a focus on disruption and psychological impact rather than financial gain.

As a solutions architect, building out customer demo environments is part of the job. I regularly spin up lab scenarios to support evaluations and proof-of-concept work — and if you've done this before, you know it can eat up days of your life. So when I recently decided to refresh my homelab and migrate to Proxmox, I saw it as the perfect opportunity to put AI-assisted infrastructure automation to the test. The goal?

Every construction project generates an enormous paper trail that captures the collective intelligence of the firm. Proposals, estimates, subcontractor bids, RFIs, submittals, contracts, schedules, and closeout documentation capture thousands of decisions and lessons learned. Yet for many firms, this knowledge never gets reused. Instead, valuable insights remain buried inside disconnected folders, spreadsheets, emails, and project systems. The result?

We’ve been collaborating with others to explore how agentic commerce and enterprise agents will work. Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas, co-founder of Crossmint shares his thoughts on the current state of payment security and how compliance mechanisms like KYC and AML need to evolve to support agentic commerce. OpenClaw provided users with an open-source framework to launch AI agents.

Many managed service providers (MSPs) recognize the value of managed detection and response (MDR) services, both for their clients and for their own business. However, they run into a recurring obstacle that slows adoption: how to structure a pricing model that is clear, sustainable, and scalable.

Governance is breaking. Not because companies care less about risk, but because modern infrastructure moves faster than the controls designed to govern it. In 2026, governance has to keep up with cloud-native architectures, AI adoption, API sprawl, and the explosion of machine identities across production environments.

By the time a phishing email lands in an inbox, the attacker’s infrastructure has already been live for hours. That’s not a hypothetical. Zimperium’s 2024 research found that 60% of newly created phishing domains receive a TLS certificate within the first two hours of registration. The site is credentialed, hosted, and ready before most security teams have any signal it exists.

Microsoft has released an emergency out of band update for.NET to address a critical security vulnerability affecting ASP.NET Core applications. The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, relates to improper verification of cryptographic signatures within the ASP.NET Core Data Protection framework. The vulnerability was introduced as a regression in earlier.NET 10 releases and has prompted the release of.NET 10.0.7 to mitigate risk.

Organizations often lose precious hours and sometimes millions of dollars because they lack a well-defined and tested incident response plan. In many cases, response roles are loosely defined and disconnected from key stakeholders, including digital forensics teams, breach counsel, and cyber insurance providers. Even large organizations fall into this trap, resulting in delayed containment, inefficient recovery, and prolonged business interruption.

Cyber Threat Intelligence is changing fast in 2026 as organisations face AI-powered threats, rising ransomware activity, and expanding digital attack surfaces. Modern CTI is no longer about collecting data, but delivering actionable insight that helps security teams make faster, smarter decisions. Technology is evolving fast, and so is the cyber threat landscape.