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DeepSeek, founded by Liang Wenfeng, is an AI development firm located in Hangzhou, China. The company focuses on developing open source Large Language Models (LLMs) and specializes in data analytics and machine learning. DeepSeek gained global recognition in January 2025 with the release of its R1 reasoning model rivalling OpenAI's o1 model in performance but at a substantially lower cost.

Netskope Threat Labs is tracking a widespread phishing campaign affecting hundreds of Netskope customers and thousands of users. The campaign aims to steal credit card information to commit financial fraud, and has been ongoing since the second half of 2024. The attacker targets victims searching for documents on search engines, resulting in access to malicious PDF that contains a CAPTCHA image embedded with a phishing link, leading them to provide sensitive information.

Identities have become one of the most common ways modern threat actors gain a foothold in the cloud. From stolen credentials to overly permissive roles and privilege escalation, attackers use a range of tactics to exploit identities and use them to launch devastating breaches. Once inside your environment, they can move laterally, exploit resources, or steal sensitive data, leaving security teams scrambling to contain the damage.

Privileged access management is no longer just a security tool — it’s a strategic asset that impacts business operations, productivity, and return on investment (ROI). In this article, you’ll discover how PAM in business not only mitigates cybersecurity risks but also streamlines IT operations, reduces costs, and enhances employee efficiency.

Given the reality of today’s cybersecurity, it is of utmost importance to have frameworks and regulations. These help both the customers and the organizations to stay protected against the cyber threats that are around us. On 17th January 2025, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), formally known as Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, came into full effect.

Researchers at AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) recently published a report on the Andariel threat group, a DPRK state-sponsored APT active for over a decade, that has been leveraging RID hijacking and user account concealment techniques in its operations to stealthily maintain privileged access to compromised Windows systems.

The rise of AI in enterprises has expanded the attack surface. Learn how GitGuardian can help you secure non-human identities and prevent unauthorized access.

North Korean hackers target job seekers with Ferret malware, macOS users face a growing threat from infostealers, and actors leverage MS Power BI links for phishing.

Check Point warns that a large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Facebook accounts with phony copyright infringement notices. The phishing emails have targeted more than 12,000 email addresses at hundreds of companies. Nearly all of the emails targeted individuals in the US, the EU, and Australia, though the researchers also observed some phishing templates written in Chinese and Arabic.

A small entrepreneur-led digital marketing agency was having a regular morning with client calls, design presentations, and ad discussions. Suddenly, every team member was locked out of their accounts and couldn’t access their e-mails, cloud folders, or even the company bank account – their data had been taken hostage digitally. This isn’t just a cautionary tale.