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Imagine handing over your house keys to someone who looked trustworthy - only to discover later they were an impostor. Everything that entered or left your home was compromised, and you never saw it coming. That’s what happens in your network when ARP spoofing strikes. The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) helps devices find each other on a local network by matching IP addresses to MAC addresses.

In this article Businesses looking for serious compliance street cred often turn first to ISO 27001. ISO 27001 is a globally recognized framework that outlines and defines information security management system (ISMS) requirements. Because being ISO 27001 certified demonstrates an organization meets best practices for information security, ISO certification can give businesses a significant competitive advantage. If you’re weighing ISO 27001 vs.

Omdia, a global analyst and advisory leader, recently released a report called “How Extended Access Management (XAM) closes the gaps in security.” This report describes how existing approaches to access management have failed to address the security, budgetary, and compliance risks posed by unmanaged identities, applications, and devices.

June 2025 has seen WhatsApp back in the headlines—this time for all the wrong reasons. Earlier this month, The National broke the story: WhatsApp’s security is under renewed scrutiny following revelations that Israel remains the only known actor to have successfully exploited it. But if history has taught us anything, it’s this: if one nation-state can do it, others may follow. At Appknox, we decided to verify the current state of WhatsApp’s mobile app security for ourselves.

In the cybercrime ecosystem, innovation often comes in disturbing forms. The ransomware group Qilin—already notorious for offering a full suite of extortion tools to affiliates—has introduced a new feature that elevates psychological warfare to a new level: a “Call a Lawyer” button. This isn’t satire. This is real social engineering, now backed with actual legal threats.

Arctic Wolf has recently observed a campaign targeting the legal industry using a combination of brute-force and spearphishing techniques. Threat actors initially attempted to brute-force multiple user accounts. After those efforts were unsuccessful, they pivoted to spearphishing by sending spoofed emails that appeared to originate from internal users. These emails used the subject line “Reminder-Your-to-do-list” and contained a malicious.HTM attachment.