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700Credit is the major provider of credit reports, fraud detection, identity verification, soft pull credit data, and compliance solutions in powersports, marine dealerships, and automotive in the United States. Based in Michigan, it offers solutions for over 21,000 clients and has more than 250 integration partners, while also managing vital data security for millions of consumers.

LastPass prides itself on being a pioneer in cloud security technology, providing password and identity management solutions for personal and business digital safety. Its over 800 employees and over 20 million customers worldwide have made the company an attractive target for cybercriminals. The company has been in the headlines for several data incidents over the past few years.

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You can now easily request a pen test from within the ThreatSpike Portal, following a simple guided questionnaire custom to each pen test type. Whether it’s a Red Team, Web App, or even a Physical – you can request it here!

Every merger or acquisition follows a familiar script: two companies, two networks, two security stacks, one clock. Partners who deliver Day-1 access quickly, then guide a clean path to standardization and modernization, help customers realize deal value sooner. Do that repeatedly and you become the trusted M&A partner across the portfolio.

Looking back at 2025, two mega-trends from the past have continued: First, data breaches remained a constant and continued to trend upward; and second, there was once again a headline disaster no one anticipated. The first point needs no elaboration; data breaches are like air pollution—an accepted nuisance that only occasionally becomes so severe that we wonder why we live like this. For the second point, I gesture toward the major incidents of recent years. MoveIt. Crowdstrike. Snowflake.

If you look at the headlines, the story is about Artificial Intelligence. But if you look at the architecture, the story is about APIs. The reality of modern tech is simple: You can’t have AI security without API security. As we move rapidly from simple chatbots to autonomous agents, the way we secure our infrastructure must evolve. That is why we are thrilled to announce the release of the 4th Edition of AI & API Security For Dummies, Salt Security Special Edition.

Today, anyone can find a picture of absolutely anybody and it is also not difficult to find a sample of their voice. By combining these it is shockingly easy to create a realistic AI deepfake video of that person. The video may not be perfect, and an experienced AI deepfake enthusiast might be able to see signs of it not being real, but it will be good enough to fool 99% of people. Cybercriminals have been creating and using AI-enabled deepfake technologies since early 2024 to socially engineer people.

“Super-app” WeChat offers a wealth of functionality—from instant messaging, text and voice messaging, and video calls to mobile payments, ride booking, ordering food deliveries, paying bills and even accessing government services. Provided by Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent, WeChat has become deeply integrated into daily life in China and usage has been spreading globally. The app now boasts over 1.4 billion active users (24.8% of total internet users).

During routine threat research and monitoring of Chinese-language underground distribution channels, our team identified a malicious RAR archive. Specifically, this archive abuses a critical WinRAR directory traversal vulnerability to achieve arbitrary file write and persistence on Windows systems. To accomplish this, the archive leverages a combination of NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS) and directory traversal logic.