Tag: business
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The MSP Guide to Using AI-Powered Risk Management to Scale Cybersecurity
Scaling cybersecurity services as an MSP or MSSP requires technical expertise and a business model that delivers measurable value at scale.Risk-based cybersecurity is the foundation of that model. When done right, it builds client trust, increases upsell opportunities, and drives recurring revenue. But to deliver this consistently and efficiently, you need the right technology and…
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Ghanain man pleads guilty to role in $100 million fraud ring
A Ghanaian national pleaded guilty to his role in a massive fraud ring that stole over $100 million from victims across the United States through business email compromise attacks and romance scams. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ghanain-man-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-100-million-fraud-ring/
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Teenage hacker myth primed for a middle-age criminal makeover
Tags: access, breach, business, corporate, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, extortion, finance, group, hacker, hacking, infrastructure, jobs, malware, network, penetration-testing, programming, ransomware, service, skills, software, technology, threat, vulnerabilityCybercrime cartels: Dray Agha, senior security operations manager at managed detection and response services firm Huntress, said the analysis illustrates that the “Hollywood image of a teenage lone wolf hacking for bragging rights” is vastly outdated since the threat landscape is dominated by “highly organised, profit-driven syndicates.””While young people may still engage in digital vandalism…
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Zero-day exploits hit enterprises faster and harder
Tags: access, apple, attack, backdoor, business, china, cisco, cve, data, detection, endpoint, espionage, exploit, firewall, flaw, fortinet, google, group, hacker, infrastructure, ivanti, least-privilege, mobile, network, oracle, radius, ransomware, risk, router, russia, service, software, technology, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayEnterprise environments under siege: Chinese threat actors continued to display a preference for targets that are difficult to monitor and allow persistent access to strategic networks. Notable examples include the groups that GTIG tracks as UNC5221, which exploited a flaw in Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-0282) and UNC3886, which exploited a vulnerability in Juniper routers (CVE-2025-21590).Another…
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Backup strategies are working, and ransomware gangs are responding with data theft
Business email compromise (BEC) and funds transfer fraud combined for 58% of all cyber insurance claims filed in 2025, according to data from Coalition covering more than … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/06/cyber-claims-report-ransomware-gangs-data-theft/
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Audit Readiness Assessments Demystified: Importance and Relevance for Your Business
Key Takeaways Organizations often think about audits only when a certification deadline approaches or when an auditor sends a long list of document requests. At that point, teams begin searching for policies, screenshots, and logs that prove controls are operating correctly. An audit readiness assessment changes that dynamic. Proactively, organizations evaluate their status ahead of……
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Microsoft, Europol disrupt global phishing platform Tycoon 2FA
The service helped cybercriminals bypass multifactor authentication and led to business email compromise and ransomware. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microsoft-europol-disrupt-phishing-tycoon-2fa/813904/
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AI-Driven Insider Risk Now a “Critical Business Threat,” Report Warns
Malicious insiders are using misusing AI for nefarious gain, while employees cutting corners also creates risk, warns Mimecast First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-insider-risk-critical-business/
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Should Cloud Be Classed as Critical Infrastructure?
Tags: access, authentication, banking, breach, business, cloud, compliance, computing, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, dora, encryption, fido, finance, framework, governance, Hardware, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, mfa, network, nis-2, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, strategy, supply-chain, technologyShould Cloud Be Classed as Critical Infrastructure? madhav Thu, 03/05/2026 – 09:53 Over the past few years, large-scale cloud outages have demonstrated just how deeply digital services are woven into the fabric of modern society. When widely used cloud platforms experience disruption, the impact extends far beyond individual applications; banking services stall, transport systems falter,…
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Is investing in advanced AI cybersecurity justified
Are You Safeguarding Your Business With Non-Human Identities? Have you ever wondered how secure your organization’s systems are against non-human threats? Where the interaction between machines and systems is increasing, Non-Human Identities (NHIs) have become a critical focus for cybersecurity. These machine identities are pivotal in managing cybersecurity risks, especially where companies increasingly operate in……
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Hiscout und Bearingpoint stärken gemeinsam die Resilienz der öffentlichen Verwaltung
Hiscout, ein führender Anbieter integrierter GRC-Softwarelösungen, baut sein Partnernetzwerk weiter aus und arbeitet ab sofort strategisch mit der Management- und Technologieberatung Bearingpoint zusammen. Ziel der Partnerschaft ist es, Organisationen der öffentlichen Hand bei Informationssicherheit, Business-Continuity-Management (BCM), Datenschutz und Compliance noch umfassender und praxisnaher zu unterstützen. Im Fokus der Zusammenarbeit steht die Weiterentwicklung und Stärkung der…
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How to know you’re a real-deal CSO, and whether that job opening truly seeks one
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, communications, compliance, control, cyber, data, data-breach, finance, framework, governance, incident response, infosec, insurance, jobs, metric, privacy, radius, risk, skills, strategy, threat, training, vulnerabilityStriking the right balance of experience and responsibility: Mark G. McCreary, partner and chief AI and IT security officer at Boston-based legal firm Fox Rothschild LLP, has seen both extremes: security being completely sidelined and security professionals given excessive, unjustified authority.In some firms, a newly appointed CSO might be positioned as a gatekeeper without the…
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N8N: Shared Credentials and Account Takeover
Executive Summary We identified a security weakness in n8n’s credential management layer that could have completely compromised the application’s security. This finding highlights the core risks of centralized authentication in workflow automation platforms. As n8n serves as the central hub connecting critical systems and orchestrating business processes across teams, any gap in credential handling can……
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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AI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, data, deep-fake, encryption, governance, identity, infrastructure, risk, saas, skills, software, strategy, theft, threat, toolAI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report madhav Tue, 03/03/2026 – 15:00 Over the past year, I’ve watched AI move to operational reality across nearly every industry we work with. The conversation is no longer about whether AI will transform business. It already has. Cybersecurity Todd Moore –…
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Oracle EBS 2025 campaign impacts Madison Square Garden, sensitive data leaked
Madison Square Garden confirmed a data breach tied to the 2025 Oracle E-Business Suite hacking campaign. Madison Square Garden (MSG) has confirmed it was affected by a data breach linked to the 2025 cybercrime campaign targeting Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS) customers. Madison Square Garden (MSG) is a world-famous multi-purpose indoor arena located in New York…
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Surviving Ransomware: Best practices to safeguard your business
By Robbie Ross, cyber security lead, Converged Communication Solutions It’s not if but when. This is a phrase that has been echoed across the cyber security industry for several years, but when it comes to ransomware the message is still not penetrating widely enough. The 2025 UK Government Cyber Breaches Survey highlighted that just 32%…
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LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files
American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-as-hackers-leak-stolen-files/
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On Moltbook
The MIT Technology Review has a good article on Moltbook, the supposed AI-only social network: Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots. But even the bot-written posts are ultimately the result of people pulling the strings, more puppetry than autonomy. “Despite…
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OAuth phishers make ‘check where the link points’ advice ineffective
Tags: authentication, automation, awareness, business, cloud, control, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, exploit, governance, identity, login, malicious, microsoft, monitoring, phishing, saas, threat, toolContext, not the URL, is the new red flag: Sakshi Grover, Senior Research Manager at IDC Asia/Pacific, said the longstanding advice to hover over a link and verify its domain was built for an era of lookalike domains and that it no longer holds in environments where authentication flows routinely pass through trusted identity providers.”Organizations…
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AI Agents: The Next Wave Identity Dark Matter – Powerful, Invisible, and Unmanaged
The Rise of MCPs in the EnterpriseThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, and data, MCP enables prompt-driven AI agents that can retrieve information, take action, and automate end-to-end business workflows across the enterprise. This is…
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Epic Fury introduces new layer of enterprise risk
Tags: access, apt, attack, business, cisa, ciso, communications, country, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, disinformation, exploit, group, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, iran, malware, middle-east, network, ransomware, resilience, risk, rust, service, software, technology, tool, ukrainePhysical attacks on US-linked locations through direct action or partner groups. We are already seeing Iranian missile launches into a variety of nations in the region.Cyber operations that include disruptive activity, targeted intrusions, credential and access harvesting, destructive malware deployment, and the use of compromised infrastructure to support broader influence or operational objectives.Proxy networks across…
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Why Every Enterprise Needs a Strong API Security Strategy?
Modern enterprises are rapidly shifting toward API-centric architectures, leveraging APIs to connect internal systems, external partners, and digital services. With 74% of organizations adopting API-first development models, APIs now drive critical business logic and data exchanges at scale. However, this API proliferation also dramatically increases the attack surface, exposing sensitive data and business processes to……
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7 factors impacting the cyber skills gap
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, control, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, group, incident response, intelligence, jobs, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability2. Emerging technologies: New technologies, particularly AI, are contributing to a cyber landscape that’s evolving so quickly it’s hard for even highly skilled cybersecurity professionals to pace, says Dan Lohrmann, CISO at enterprise strategy and consulting firm Presidio.AI-driven threats keep moving the target, allowing cybercriminals to attack with unprecedented levels of speed and agility, Lohrmann…
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AI went from assistant to autonomous actor and security never caught up
Enterprise AI deployments have shifted from pilot programs to production systems handling customer data, executing business transactions, and integrating with core … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/03/enterprise-ai-agent-security-2026/
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Vulnerability monitoring service secures public-sector websites faster
Tags: business, ceo, cyber, dns, government, Internet, monitoring, office, resilience, risk, service, skills, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityTools good, talk better: The UK government’s VMS uses a combination of commercial and proprietary scanning tools to detect vulnerabilities in internet-facing assets.But McKay cautions against drawing the wrong conclusion from the results.”Process, accountability and taking ownership for explaining why this matters to the resilience of the business is far more important than the technical…
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Ignition Technology sets sights on increasing business
Channel player looks to grow revenues through vendor, geographical and services expansion First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/366639470/Ignition-Technology-sets-sights-on-increasing-business