Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Banking & Financial Services (BFS) firms are shouldering a uniquely heavy share of the global threat load. The newly released Indusface State of Application Security 2025 study paints a stark picture: Why the laser focuses on finance? Strict regulations mean banks generally run strong perimeters, so adversaries pivot to bots, API abuse, and nuanced business-logic exploits that slip past ‘default’ defences.

For every advancement in defense, attackers supply the equal and opposite adaptation. In the last few years EDRs have become so effective that adversaries have radically shifted gears. That shift shows up unmistakably in three heavyweight reports—Verizon’s DBIR, Mandiant’s M-Trends, and CrowdStrike’s Global Threat Report. Here’s how I’m stitching their data together.

On Monday, April 28, 2025, widespread power outages affected large parts of Spain and Portugal. The exact root cause is still under investigation. These disruptions impacted regional infrastructure supporting connectivity, cloud services, and on-site operations.

Black Friday is retail’s biggest moment—and retail IT’s biggest challenge. Spikes in traffic, strained systems, and the constant fear of outages turn what should be a commercial win into an operational war room. For many retailers, it’s a time of sleepless nights, emergency vendor calls, and systems pushed to their breaking point. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Let’s face it: The cloud has become the go-to platform for modern infrastructure—and for good reason. Scalability, flexibility, and speed are hard to beat. But as organizations increasingly rely on the cloud to run their critical operations, the threat landscape is evolving just as fast. And attackers? They’re getting smarter, stealthier, and more cloud-savvy by the day. That’s why monitoring cloud network traffic is no longer optional—it’s essential.

For several years now, adversaries and red teams have increasingly leveraged Living-off-the-Land Binaries (LOLBins) techniques to compromise targeted systems. By exploiting pre-installed, legitimate software, these attackers are able to evade detection tools, seamlessly blending malicious activities with normal system processes. This approach presents a significant challenge for traditional security measures, which often struggle to differentiate between legitimate use and malicious intent.