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The foundation of modern-day software development relies heavily on translating requirements into products through traceability, collaboration, and reproducibility. Software artifacts are instrumental in this process, facilitating development across all areas, including application development, CI/CD pipelines, and compliance.

Threat actors are increasingly abusing workplace collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams to launch social engineering attacks, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’s Unit 42. Attackers are sending Teams messages that impersonate IT personnel, asking users to approve a multifactor authentication prompt. Both criminal and nation-state threat actors are using this social engineering technique to compromise organizations’ environments.

A newly surfaced extortion brand called “Pink” is using voice phishing and fake IT support calls to breach organizations, the Register reports. The threat actor may be a rebrand of prior extortion groups, including BlackFile and Redact, though its tactics remain the same.

LiteLLM, a widely deployed open-source AI gateway, is affected by a critical exploit chain that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable hosts. CISA added CVE-2026-42271 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on June 9, 2026, confirming active exploitation in the wild. The Qilin ransomware group has been linked to exploitation activity. What makes this especially dangerous is the chain: CVE-2026-42271 on its own required a valid API key.

Cybersecurity now directly affects operational stability, customer trust, and business continuity.

Ever wonder why security programs in most organizations fall short despite purchasing defensive cybersecurity tools, conducting offensive security scans, and meeting compliance? Simply put, their attack surface changes faster than validation does, i.e., teams add new assets, deploy code constantly, expand access, and let configurations drift. Say you installed fire alarms and ran a safety drill. Months later, you remodel, but you’re still using the old safety checklist. How safe does that sound now?

If you're working toward certification, you're probably dealing with the same pattern many organizations encounter. Policies live in shared folders, risk decisions sit in meeting notes, control owners answer questions differently, and audit prep turns into a scramble to prove that security work happened. The hard part usually isn't understanding that ISO 27001 matters. It's translating the standard into repeatable operational evidence.

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SUMMARY – Inactive repositories are often mistaken for harmless dead code, but they are actually open doors into your network.– Threat actors do not search manually; they use automated scanners to parse thousands of files and extract secret patterns, access keys, and credentials.– The root of this vulnerability is an organizational lack of ownership and a missing lifecycle for code that is no longer actively developed.– Discover a practical DevSecOps approach to secure your shadow

SUMMARY For a long time, the classic 3-2-1 backup rule was the industry standard. It served IT professionals incredibly well. But as the threat landscape evolves, your defenses need to evolve with it. To truly protect your intellectual property and guarantee that your teams can keep working no matter what happens, your company should consider upgrading to the ransomware-ready 3-2-1-1-0 rule.