Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

AI agents are quickly becoming “first-class citizens” in financial services, mimicking human behavior and holding privileged access that rivals employees. Yet unlike people, they don’t appear on your official org chart. The financial services sector already lives in a state of constant tension: the race to adopt new technologies for a competitive edge often faces off with the duty to preserve customer trust earned over decades of reliability, regulation, and security.

On October 4, 2025, Oracle released a fix for a newly disclosed critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-61882, linked to recent extortion emails received by some Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) customers. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote threat actors to achieve remote code execution and resides in the BI Publisher component of Oracle Concurrent Processing.

A new report has found that nearly 40% of security leaders believe their organizations are least prepared for phishing and other social engineering attacks, Help Net Security reports. According to the report from VikingCloud, these concerns are driven by the increasing use of AI tools to assist in cyberattacks. “Generative or agentic AI-driven phishing attacks (51%) are leadership teams’ top concern when it comes to new cyberattack techniques,” the report says.

Almost every AEC professional interacts with construction specifications from estimating to closeout, but that doesn’t mean it's easy. Locked in hard-to-use PDFs, specification documents are often a time-consuming obstacle. Egnyte’s Specifications Analyst, part of the new Project Hub, eases the pain with an intuitive interface built specifically for how AEC teams work.

Enhance your threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities by integrating Jamf Protect macOS data within Elastic Security. Security teams often struggle to detect and respond to macOS threats with endpoint data alone. The integration with Jamf Protect changes that. Jamf Protect delivers rich macOS telemetry and built-in protections like Threat Prevention and Network Protection, powered by Jamf Threat Labs.

Manufacturing executives recently surveyed by LevelBlue expressed a deep concern that emerging attack methods, such as deepfakes and AI-powered attacks, will be almost as likely as more traditional attacks like ransomware. We derived the information from a research-based survey conducted in January 2025, which included 220 C-suite and senior manufacturing executives.

DevOpsDays Philadelphia 2025 showed how AI governance, secrets security, runtime traces, and ablative resilience work together to reduce operational risk.