Checkbox Assessments Aren’t Fit to Measure to Risk
Security governance needs to be more than an annual compliance exercise. New companies are emerging to address risk-management gaps in current audit tools.
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Attackers Weaponize RubyGems for Data Dead Drops
Threat actors are publishing RubyGems packages that include scrapers targeting public-facing UK government servers, but with no clear objective.
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Tables Turn on ‘The Gentlemen’ RaaS Gang With Data Leak
An OPSEC failure provides a window into what helped the ransomware group rise: a generous affiliate model, opportunistic TTPs, and an effective organizational structure.
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Dark Reading Celebrates 20 Years as a Leading Authority on Cybersecurity, Highlighting the People, Events, Ideas, and Technologies Shaping the Modern Risk Landscape
Informa TechTarget’s flagship cybersecurity media brand launches a special content series to mark two decades as a trusted source for cybersecurity professionals.
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Microsoft’s MDASH AI System Finds 16 Windows Flaws Fixed in Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has unveiled a new multi-model artificial intelligence (AI)-driven system called MDASH to facilitate vulnerability discovery and remediation at scale, adding that it’s being tested by some customers as part of a limited private preview. MDASH, short for multi-model agentic scanning harness, is designed as a model-agnostic system that uses bespoke AI agents for different…
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Azerbaijani Energy Firm Hit by Repeated Microsoft Exchange Exploitation
A threat actor with affiliations to China has been linked to a “multi-wave intrusion” targeting an unnamed Azerbaijani oil and gas company between late December 2025 and late February 2026, marking an expansion of its targeting. The activity has been attributed by Bitdefender with moderate-to-high confidence to a hacking group known as FamousSparrow (aka UAT-9244),…
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LatAm Vibe Hackers Generate Custom Hacking Tools on the Fly
In the latest evolution of automated cyberattacks, two threat campaigns heavily leveraged AI agents to support attacks against entities in Mexico and Brazil.
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China’s ‘FamousSparrow’ APT Nests in South Caucasus Energy Firm
The cyberthreat group targets an Azerbaijani oil and gas firm with repeated attacks, as the China-linked actors extend targeting beyond hospitality, telecom, and government sectors.
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[Webinar] Why Your AppSec Tools Miss the “Lethal Path” (and How to Fix It)
TL;DR: Stop chasing thousands of “toast” alerts. Join experts from Wiz and Okta/GitLab to learn how hackers connect tiny flaws to build a “Lethal Chain” to your data—and how to break it. Register for the Strategic Briefing Here. Most security tools work like a smoke alarm that goes off every time you burn a piece…
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Most Remediation Programs Never Confirm the Fix Actually Worked
Security teams have never had better visibility into their environments and never been worse at confirming what they fix stays fixed. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 report puts the mean time to exploit at an estimated negative seven days. The Verizon 2025 DBIR puts median time to remediate edge device vulnerabilities at 32 days. These numbers have…