Topic: insider threats
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CISA's New Insider Threat Guidance: How to Protect Your Organization
New guidance reframes insider risk as a core organizational challenge, requiring a proactive and collaborative approach that integrates security, HR, legal, and operations into dedicated teams. A recommended four-stage cycle (plan, organize, execute, maintain) helps organizations build mature pro...
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Insider Threats: Australia's Top Cybersecurity Risk
Australian organisations are shifting their cybersecurity focus to insider threats, with 84% expecting an increase and 58% ranking them as a greater risk than external attackers. Many businesses are unprepared for insider threats, as only 34% use advanced detection tools like user behaviour analy...
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Stop Insider Threats: A Human-Centric Security Platform
A significant 60% of data breaches stem from internal actors, highlighting the critical vulnerability of the human element in cybersecurity. The Syteca platform offers a multi-layered defense with features like user session monitoring, sensitive data masking, and automated alerting to address ins...
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Insider Threats: Protecting Your Team from Cyber Attacks
Cybercriminals are now infiltrating companies by impersonating IT professionals during hiring, using fabricated personas and deepfakes to gain trusted, privileged access to sensitive systems. The primary goals of these "fake workers" include severe data theft, financial fraud, and cyber espionage...
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Gurucul AI-IRM: Detect Insider Threats Faster
Gurucul has launched the AI Insider Risk Management (AI-IRM) platform to enhance detection and response to insider threats through autonomous triage and bias-free risk scoring, addressing a sharp rise in such incidents. The platform integrates User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), identity a...
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FinWise Breach: Why Encryption Is Your Final Defense
The 2024 FinWise data breach was caused by a former employee who exploited retained login credentials, accessing sensitive data for 689,000 customers undetected for over a year. The breach exposed inadequate security measures, including possible encryption failures and lack of monitoring for irre...
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Insider Threats, Malware & AI: The Rising File Security Crisis
File security breaches are escalating, causing significant financial losses, stolen data, and intellectual property exposure across organizations. Insider threats, weak access controls, and evolving malware like ransomware and zero-day threats are major vulnerabilities, with many companies lackin...
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Cybersecurity Leaders Hide Cyber Incidents From Executives
Corporate cybersecurity leaders are increasingly concealing security incidents from their own executive leadership and boards, creating a dangerous gap in understanding the organization's true risk profile and leading to decisions based on incomplete information. Nation-state cyberattacks are a p...
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Unseen Security Threat: The Danger of Shadow Spreadsheets
Shadow spreadsheets, created by employees to work around software limitations, create significant security risks by exposing sensitive data outside managed IT controls through overshared links. This practice leads to dangerous oversharing and data sprawl, destroying data integrity and creating an...
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Ransomware Groups Pivot as Victims Stop Paying
Ransomware payment rates have plummeted to just 23% in Q3 2025, significantly undermining the financial model of cybercriminals and marking a victory for cybersecurity efforts. Attackers are increasingly relying on social engineering tactics like insider threats, helpdesk impersonation, and callb...
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Hospitals Overwhelmed by Unmanageable Threats
The healthcare sector faces a severe cybersecurity crisis, with 93% of U.S. organizations experiencing attacks in the past year, frequently disrupting patient care and exposing vast amounts of sensitive data. Key vulnerabilities include exposed staff data on people search sites, attacks on medica...
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Top Cybersecurity Breaches and Attacks of 2025
Sophisticated social engineering and malware campaigns, such as ClickFix and its variants, expanded across operating systems, tricking users into self-inflicted infections and becoming commercialized through paid platforms. The cryptocurrency sector and enterprise software faced massive breaches,...
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Enterprise Data's Fate in the Age of Ubiquitous GenAI
Generative AI's rapid business integration is creating significant new security vulnerabilities, accelerating data exposure, and outpacing existing organizational policies and controls. The adoption of these tools has led to a massive increase in sensitive data shared with AI applications, with a...
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PQC Adoption, Android Spyware, and FEMA Data Breach: Key Updates
Microsoft has enhanced its security products with AI-ready Sentinel and Security Copilot, enabling automated threat response and easier deployment through the Microsoft Security Store. Insider threats and data breaches were highlighted, including a bribery attempt on a BBC journalist and breaches...
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Privileged Access: The Next IT Security Battlefield
Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) are becoming central to security, shifting focus from perimeter defenses to a dynamic, identity-centric posture driven by hybrid work and AI. Passwordless authentication, using hardware keys and biometrics, will see wides...
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Why Veterans Excel in Cybersecurity Careers
Veterans are exceptionally well-suited for cybersecurity careers due to their training in high-stakes environments, risk management, and experience with advanced technologies, allowing them to adapt quickly to complex systems. Military service instills critical skills like integrity, logical deci...
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Millions of PornHub Users' Data Stolen in Extortion Hack
U.S. border agencies are expanding surveillance by deploying small drones operationally and enhancing cybersecurity to monitor employees, amid investigations into leaks. Major data breaches include the theft of over 200 million user records from PornHub by hackers and the rise of AI tools like Ha...
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Nightfall AI: Protect Unstructured Data with LLM-Powered File Classification
Nightfall AI introduces AI File Classifier Detectors that use large language models to identify and secure unstructured intellectual property, which traditional data loss prevention tools often miss. The system comprehends a document's overall meaning, structure, and business context, enabling ac...
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Secure Your Microsoft 365 & Hybrid Identity with Cayosoft Guardian
Cayosoft Guardian Protector offers free, real-time threat detection and monitoring for Microsoft hybrid identity environments, including Active Directory and Entra ID, to defend against ransomware and insider threats without licensing costs. It provides comprehensive visibility and immediate aler...
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Moltbot Rebrands, But Security Issues Persist
Moltbot is a popular open-source AI assistant that automates tasks but requires extensive access to private user accounts and credentials, raising significant security concerns. The tool faces critical vulnerabilities, including common user misconfigurations and a risky trust-based skills library...
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10 AI Risks That Could Devastate 2026
The cybersecurity landscape in 2026 will be defined by the weaponization of AI, leading to faster, more adaptive, and harder-to-detect threats that demand a shift from reactive to proactive defense strategies. Key emerging threats include autonomous, AI-enabled malware that evades detection, agen...
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Businesses Seek AI Gains Without the Security Risks
European IT experts predict AI-driven cyber threats and deepfakes will be a major concern in 2026, with organizations largely unprepared for these risks. AI is viewed as both a significant threat and a transformative opportunity, with generative AI and predictive analytics leading technology tren...
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AI's Critical Role in Modern Cybersecurity
AI enhances cybersecurity by processing large data volumes, identifying anomalies, and automating tasks to defend against sophisticated threats. Cybercriminals use AI for automated attacks and stealthy techniques, requiring equally advanced defenses to counter them at machine speed. AI addresses ...
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C-Suite's AI Obsession Fuels Critical Security Gaps
Modern organizations face significant security vulnerabilities due to a disconnect between rapid technological adoption and inadequate security practices, with 34% experiencing AI-related breaches. Many companies rely on outdated, reactive metrics like incident frequency, which only assess damage...
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Cyber-Fraud Now Tops Ransomware, Says World Economic Forum
Phishing and cyber-fraud have surpassed ransomware as the top global cybersecurity threat, causing major financial losses and eroding digital trust, with 77% of executives reporting an increase in such incidents. Artificial intelligence is accelerating cybersecurity risks, with most leaders repor...
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Urgent New OT Security Mandate: Maintain Real-Time System Inventory
International cybersecurity agencies have issued updated guidance requiring operational technology organizations to create and maintain a real-time, definitive inventory of their entire system architecture as a foundation for effective cybersecurity. The framework emphasizes a prioritized approac...
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How Supply Chain Sprawl Is Reshaping Security
Businesses face significant cybersecurity risks due to supply chain sprawl, with vendor-related threats being a primary concern, especially for large enterprises and sensitive sectors. A lack of visibility into vendor security practices and outdated risk assessments leave organizations vulnerable...
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How DOGE and 'Big Balls' Coristine Breached a Federal Payroll System
A startling breach of federal payroll systems unfolded earlier this year when two operatives linked to Elon Musk’s controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) gained sweeping access to sensitive government networks. Among them was Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old known online as "...
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