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Text messages used to be a safe space—quick birthday wishes, delivery updates, maybe the odd emoji from a friend. But in today’s digital world, not every ping on your phone is innocent. Some are traps, carefully crafted to trick, scare, or confuse. One of the sneakiest tricks out there? Smishing. Yep, it’s a mashup of “SMS” and “phishing.” If phishing is the scam that hides behind a shady email, smishing is its text-based cousin.

Over the last few years, news reports around ransomware attacks have noted that the attacks are increasingly sophisticated. Simultaneously, they say that the attackers are less sophisticated than in the past. While these two statements appear to conflict with each other, they are both true when viewed through the lens of the current cybercriminals business models.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) clarified in 2022 and again in 2023 that tracking technologies like Meta Pixel and GA4 can expose Protected Health Information (PHI). This applies even if PHI isn’t explicitly shared—contextual data such as appointment searches or logged-in status on a patient portal can qualify.

Arctic Wolf Customer, Proof-of-concept exploit code is now available for a high-severity arbitrary file write vulnerability in Git, which poses a risk to developers who regularly work with third-party code. If Git is used in your environment, we recommend reviewing this security bulletin and taking immediate steps to mitigate the risk.

For the second consecutive year, Cato Networks has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms. We believe this recognition validates our relentless commitment to innovation, excellence, and above all, our customers’ success. In a fiercely competitive landscape, we know that standing out means building SASE the right way, from the ground up, designed specifically for the needs of modern enterprises.