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The financial sector remains one of the most targeted industries for cybercriminals and nation-state actors due to the sensitivity of customer data, the high value of financial transactions, and the critical role these institutions play in global stability. Bitsight’s 2025 State of the Underground report found that underground markets listed nearly 14.5 million compromised credit cards in 2024, representing a 20% increase over 2023. This growth was driven entirely by a surge in US-issued cards.

In vulnerability management, every scan tells a story. The truth is that only some of those stories matter right now and that the challenge isn’t finding vulnerabilities. It’s knowing which ones are about to cost you. If you’re dealing with hundreds of vulnerabilities per asset, especially if you’ve adopted cloud solutions, you’re not alone. That’s become the norm. But you can’t patch everything, and you shouldn’t even try.

In our previous post, The ABC’s of Ishing, we broke down the foundational tactics used by cybercriminals to deceive users and gain unauthorized access. This follow-up report expands on that foundation by exploring three evolving phishing threats that go beyond traditional email lures. Angler Phishing, Calendar Phishing, and Captcha Phishing each exploit trust in everyday digital tools—social media platforms, calendar invites, and CAPTCHA challenges.

‍Conducting a risk assessment has become a baseline requirement, not merely an internal best practice, for building effective GRC programs. Whether their focus is on cybersecurity or the newer frontier of AI, assessments offer a systematic means of illuminating an organization’s current exposure and providing visibility into how safeguards are working across both domains. For many teams, however, beginning the assessment remains a challenge.

The Shai-Hulud worm wasn't just a sophisticated supply chain attack; its most important lesson was about a crisis of communication. The attack thrived in the organizational gap between security policy and the daily realities of software development, a gap that exists in most companies. Defending against the next software supply chain attack requires more than a new tool; it demands a strategic shift from imposing controls to forging a genuine partnership with engineering.

Exposure management doesn’t end when you discover and prioritize vulnerabilities. The real measure of success is whether you’ve effectively remediated those exposures. Too often, security teams identify risks but struggle to see them resolved because remediation processes aren’t aligned across people, tools, and workflows. Exposure remediation best practices address this gap, ensuring that insights lead to action and that action drives measurable risk reduction.

With time, effort, and a blessing from the LinkedIn networking Gods, a high-level executive's identity can be transformative for a company. More than just a name and title, these executives become symbols of authority and trust, someone employees, customers, and partners instinctively follow. Personas like Elon Musk and Tim Cook instill confidence and belief in their employees and consumers by championing their products and their ethos.

A new and dangerous self-replicating worm has been identified targeting the JavaScript repository NPM, infecting at least 187 code packages. The novel malware strain is engineered to steal credentials from developers and publish them to a new public GitHub repository. The worm automatically propagates itself by copying its code into the top 20 most popular packages maintained by the compromised user and publishing them as new versions.