Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Vendors increasingly claim to offer SecOps platforms. Yet, their solutions are so different from each other that buyers find themselves wondering what the term “SecOps platform” even means. We’d like to give a straightforward answer to that question.

SenseOn has detected a large increase in the Lumma Stealer malware targeting customers over the past few months. Unlike traditional malware strains, Lumma Stealer has been leveraging a unique, and increasingly effective, access vector of fake CAPTCHA verification prompts. These deceptive prompts trick users into running malicious commands on their device eventually injecting malicious processes into legitimate programs. This attack vector is expected to become even more prevalent throughout 2025.

ROPA is primarily utilized by organizations subject to data protection regulations. While it is a legal requirement for businesses of all sizes handling personal data, it is especially critical for large enterprises that process substantial volumes of data or sensitive information. Compliance officers, data protection officers (DPOs), legal teams, and IT departments often rely on ROPA to demonstrate compliance to regulators during audits or investigations.

The explosive growth of computing infrastructure has ushered in a new era of complexity for engineering, infrastructure, and security teams. Managing access, identities, and policies across thousands—or even tens of thousands—of resources such as physical servers, multi-cloud platforms, and web apps is no small feat in itself.

Teleport 17 marks our final major release of the year, bringing significant enhancements to our platform. In the six months since Teleport 16, we've not only developed this major release but also introduced several valuable features through minor and patch updates. A core theme for this release is scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure access. This starts with our expanded focus on AWS Access. Teleport 17 includes preview support for AWS IAM Identity Center.

With widespread remote work and global access, organizations face mounting challenges in securing user identities against sophisticated threats. One critical identity risk signal is impossible travel, where a user appears to log in from two unrecognized, geographically distant locations within an unrealistic timeframe, indicating the possibility of compromised credentials or session hijacking.

On January 13, 2025, Halcyon released a research blog about the Codefinger group conducting a ransomware campaign targeting Amazon S3 buckets. The attacks leverage AWS’s Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C) to encrypt data. The threat actors then demand ransom payments for the symmetric AES-256 keys required to decrypt it.

Businesses are generating more data than ever, with 60% of company data being stored in the cloud, and businesses are storing 48% of their most important and sensitive data using some form of cloud storage. Even though businesses are using cloud storage, the risk of data breaches or attacks on company data is at the highest it's ever been, with 24% of breaches involving personal data and costing companies, on average, $4.88 million.