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Arctic Wolf

Threat Actor Profile: Interlock Ransomware

Aug 15, 2025 By Arctic Wolf Threat Research In Arctic Wolf
A relatively new ransomware group, Interlock, has gained traction in 2025 as an opportunistic ransomware operator that leverages compromised websites and multi-stage social engineering techniques to deliver their payloads. First observed in September 2024, Interlock departs from the traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, operating without affiliates or public advertisements.
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cyjax

Hackers Hate This: The New Playbook for Retail Threat Defence

Aug 15, 2025 By Cymon In CYJAX
Retailers are facing increasingly targeted, financially driven cyberattacks, from ransomware to supply chain compromise. Yet many remain reactive. Threat intelligence changes the game, enabling earlier detection, faster response, and deeper risk visibility. Our latest CYJAX whitepaper explores the retail sector’s biggest cyber challenges, the value of intelligence-led security, and practical steps to build resilience.
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knowbe4

Beyond the Inbox: How Old-School Mail Scams Are Still Stealing Your Money

Aug 15, 2025 By Roger Grimes In KnowBe4
In a world so full of digital online scams, it’s hard to remember that scammers abuse our postal mailing systems as well. Scams are as old as humanity. And most of the scams we see today on the internet have been occurring for decades or even centuries before the internet was the internet. Nigerian scams have been documented back to the 1700s.
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knowbe4

Alert: Tech Support Scammers Send Phony Podcast Invites

Aug 15, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has warned that scammers are targeting high-profile employees and influencers with fake invitations to appear as a guest on popular celebrity podcasts. The scammer poses as the podcast’s production manager, offering the target $2,000 for the appearance. If the victim agrees, the attacker will ask them to hop into a virtual meeting to test their setup before the podcast.
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mend

The Hallucinated Package Attack: Slopsquatting

Aug 15, 2025 By Mend.io Team In Mend
Imagine a world where, in the middle of programming, your helpful AI assistant tells you to import a package called securehashlib. It sounds real. It looks real. You trust your silicon co-pilot. You run pip install securehashlib. Congratulations. You’ve just opened a backdoor into your software stack—and possibly your company’s infrastructure. The package didn’t exist until yesterday, when an attacker registered it based on a hallucination the AI made last week.
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appsentinels

Top 25 Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) of 2026: Cloudflare Alternatives, Features & Pricing

Aug 15, 2025 By AppSentinels In AppSentinels
In today’s hyper-connected world, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have become one of the most critical layers in a modern security stack. As businesses shift more operations, data, and user experiences online, web apps and APIs are increasingly under siege – from basic bot scraping to sophisticated logic abuse and zero-day exploits.
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netskope

Cybersecurity as a Business Enabler

Aug 15, 2025 By Nicolás Rodriguez Tolmo In Netskope
In today’s fast-moving digital world, cybersecurity is no longer just an IT concern: it is a business imperative, and a game-changer. For many years, cybersecurity was perceived as a necessary expense, a cost center that consumed expensive resources mainly to mitigate risks and to prevent threats. But leading organizations now realize that strong cybersecurity is not just about protection, but it is a real driver of growth, customer trust, and competitive advantage.
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keeper

What's New with Keeper | August 2025

Aug 15, 2025 By Rachel Gessner In Keeper
Keeper’s latest update to One-Time Share enables two-way sharing between Keeper users and non-users, providing an easy and secure way to exchange confidential information and files. Upon creating a One-Time Share link, simply check “Allow recipient to edit record fields and upload files” to activate the bidirectional functionality of the One-Time Share link. Once received, the recipient can upload file attachments and enter any other requested information or notes.
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keeper

How RPAM Improves Security and Compliance

Aug 15, 2025 By Ashley D'Andrea In Keeper
Organizations face a variety of challenges when securing privileged access while meeting strict compliance requirements, especially in remote environments. Remote employees, third-party vendors and contractors often need elevated permissions to access critical systems from outside an organization’s network, which can introduce security vulnerabilities if not managed properly.
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The Digital Dopamine Trap: How Nature Resets Your Reward Pathways

The Digital Dopamine Trap: How Nature Resets Your Reward Pathways

Aug 15, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Your brain's reward system has been hijacked by digital technology designed to trigger constant dopamine releases that make natural pleasures feel boring and unrewarding. Every notification, like, and scroll provides a small hit of dopamine that your brain craves, creating an addiction cycle that leaves you feeling empty and restless when away from screens. This digital dopamine trap fundamentally rewires your reward pathways, making it increasingly difficult to find satisfaction in simple, natural experiences like conversation, reading, or spending time outdoors.
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