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bitsight

Shadow IT: The Haunting Inside Your Network

Oct 23, 2025 By Emma Stevens In BitSight
According to Bitsight TRACE’s 2025 State of the Underground report, the most exposed devices tied to critical vulnerabilities were found in the United States, and the most affected sectors included Information (telecom, IT) and Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (including security and software vendors).
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upguard

Why Infostealer Malware Demands a New Defense Strategy

Oct 23, 2025 By Peter Brittliff In UpGuard
Modern breaches rarely begin with a brute-force attack on a firewall, they now start with a user login. Valid account credentials are now a top initial access vector, responsible for 30% of all intrusions. In this post, we address a common misconception surrounding the inforstealer malware that may be putting you at risk of a data breach.
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bitsight

Resilience After the Breach: 6 Cyber Incident Response Best Practices

Oct 22, 2025 By Emma Stevens In BitSight
In its 2025 State of the Underground report, Bitsight TRACE found that ransomware activity continued to escalate in 2024, with a 25% increase in unique victims listed on leak sites and a 53% increase in the number of ransomware group-operated leak sites. The report also observed a 43% increase in data breaches shared on underground forums, with nearly one in five victims based in the United States. These findings highlight a continued upward trend in cyberattack activity.
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graylog

Overcoming Cybersecurity and Risk Management Challenges

Oct 21, 2025 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Every time you leave your home, you take various risks, like being in a car accident or being struck down by a meteor. In some cases, like the meteor, the likelihood of the event is so low as to be nearly nonexistent. In others, like the car accident, the likelihood might be higher. Similarly, every technology that you connect to your networks creates a cybersecurity security risk. Any device or application that connects to the public internet can be an entry point for attackers.
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cultureai

The Rise of AI Abuse: A story of Criminal GPTs, DeepFakes, Data Breaches, AI Malware, and Agentic Sleeper Agents

Oct 20, 2025 By CultureAI Team In CultureAI
In late 2022, AI exploded into the mainstream with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, starting an AI-fuelled shift in both everyday life and the cyber threat landscape. Just as quickly as everyday users rushed to adopt the technology, so did threat actors. From generating phishing pretexts to writing malware and crafting deepfakes, AI systems have become both a new tool and a new target.
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10 Common Vulnerabilities Found During Software Audits - and How to Fix Them

10 Common Vulnerabilities Found During Software Audits - and How to Fix Them

Oct 20, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
A software audit is not a checklist but a thorough examination into the internal workings of your system that lurking vulnerabilities are usually hiding. Thousands of breaches every year are due to organizations not paying early attention to software audit vulnerabilities that might have been noticed and eliminated at an early stage. This article exposes the top ten vulnerabilities that are oftentimes encountered during software audits, why they occur, and offers some remediation measures that can be taken.
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kovrr

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Cyber Risk Quantification

Oct 16, 2025 By Kovrr In Kovrr
While the average costs of cyber events rise, so do cybersecurity budgets, albeit at an extremely minimal level. This fiscal reality, which will only become more pressing as organizations scale their cyber GRC programs according to the external risk landscape, has made it all the more critical for chief information security officers (CISOs) and other security and risk managers (SRMs) to be able to evaluate the ROI of the various solutions and initiatives they implement.
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nucleus

Data Overload in the AI Era: Why Aggregation and Prioritization Are Non-Negotiable

Oct 16, 2025 By Corey Tomlinson In Nucleus
AI was supposed to make our lives easier. Vendors promised it would cut through complexity, detect threats faster, and lighten the load on already overworked security teams. But if you’ve been paying attention, you know the truth: AI has given us more noise than ever. Corey Brunkow from Horizon3.ai joined Nucleus co-founder and CPO, Scott Kuffer, to unpack this problem during a recent webinar. AI helps attackers move faster, but on the defensive side, it’s created a flood of data.
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bitsight

Critical Intelligence Alert: ED 26-01 - Action Required

Oct 16, 2025 By Emma Stevens In BitSight
On October 15, 2025, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued Emergency Directive ED 26-01, ordering federal agencies to mitigate a significant security breach involving F5 BIG-IP products. F5 disclosed that nation-state threat actors maintained long-term unauthorized access to internal systems, exfiltrating: This breach represents a major risk to organizations running F5 devices, especially those with exposed management interfaces or unpatched systems.
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