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CVE-2025-15467: OpenSSL Vulnerability Leads to Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution

Just as organizations were working to patch the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), the cybersecurity world is confronted with another serious threat. OpenSSL disclosed a high-severity stack buffer overflow issue that can trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and, under specific circumstances, enable remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2025-15467, the vulnerability was promptly patched by the vendor…

CVE-2025-15467: OpenSSL Vulnerability Leads to Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution

Just as organizations were working to patch the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), the cybersecurity world is confronted with another serious threat. OpenSSL disclosed a high-severity stack buffer overflow issue that can trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and, under specific circumstances, enable remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2025-15467, the vulnerability was promptly patched by the vendor…

How to get started with security response automation on AWS

December 2, 2019: Original publication date of this post. At AWS, we encourage you to use automation. Not just to deploy your workloads and configure services, but to also help you quickly detect and respond to security events within your AWS environments. In addition to increasing the speed of detection and response, automation also helps…

How to get started with security response automation on AWS

December 2, 2019: Original publication date of this post. At AWS, we encourage you to use automation. Not just to deploy your workloads and configure services, but to also help you quickly detect and respond to security events within your AWS environments. In addition to increasing the speed of detection and response, automation also helps…

How to get started with security response automation on AWS

December 2, 2019: Original publication date of this post. At AWS, we encourage you to use automation. Not just to deploy your workloads and configure services, but to also help you quickly detect and respond to security events within your AWS environments. In addition to increasing the speed of detection and response, automation also helps…

How to get started with security response automation on AWS

December 2, 2019: Original publication date of this post. At AWS, we encourage you to use automation. Not just to deploy your workloads and configure services, but to also help you quickly detect and respond to security events within your AWS environments. In addition to increasing the speed of detection and response, automation also helps…

How to get started with security response automation on AWS

December 2, 2019: Original publication date of this post. At AWS, we encourage you to use automation. Not just to deploy your workloads and configure services, but to also help you quickly detect and respond to security events within your AWS environments. In addition to increasing the speed of detection and response, automation also helps…

How to get started with security response automation on AWS

December 2, 2019: Original publication date of this post. At AWS, we encourage you to use automation. Not just to deploy your workloads and configure services, but to also help you quickly detect and respond to security events within your AWS environments. In addition to increasing the speed of detection and response, automation also helps…

Long-running North Korea threat group splits into 3 distinct operations

A North Korea-backed threat group operating since 2009 has splintered into three distinct groups with specialized malware and objectives, CrowdStrike said in a report released Thursday. Labeled “Labyrinth Chollima” by the company, the group follows a divergence pattern CrowdStrike observed previously. Labyrinth Chollima has spawned two additional groups: Golden Chollima and Pressure Chollima. The spin-offs,…

SOC & Business Success with ANY.RUN: Real-World Results & Cases 

Running a SOC today means constant trade-offs: too many alerts, not enough people, strict SLAs, and attacks that keep getting smarter. Most leaders aren’t asking for “the next cool product” but a proof that something actually cuts time, risk, and workload in real environments like theirs.  Thousands of organizations already rely on ANY.RUN to reduce analyst load, resolve phishing cases faster, cut unnecessary…

The dark web’s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock

In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware — exposing how a single, seemingly harmless text message can turn a smartphone into a round-the-clock surveillance device. Plus, we go looking for professional hitmen online – only to uncover uncomfortable questions about…

Fortinet’s latest zero-day vulnerability carries frustrating familiarities for customers

Fortinet customers are confronting another actively exploited zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass authentication in the single sign-on flow for FortiCloud and gain privileged access to multiple Fortinet firewall products and related services. The vendor issued a security advisory for the vulnerability — CVE-2026-24858 — warning that some instances of exploitation already occurred earlier…

Undressed victims file class action lawsuit against xAI for Grok deepfakes

A class of individuals who say they were victimized by nude or undressed deepfakes generated by Grok have filed a lawsuit against parent company xAI, calling the tool “a generative artificial intelligence chatbot that humiliates and sexually exploits women and girls by undressing them and posing them in sexual positions in deepfake images publicly posted…

CVE-2026-24858: FortiOS SSO Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

The year 2026 has started with an avalanche of zero-day vulnerabilities, causing a menace for cyber defenders. Right after Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) and a critical flaw in Cisco products (CVE-2026-20045) that were repeatedly exploited for in-the-wild attacks, Fortinet has disclosed another serious issue, immediately drawing the attention of threat actors. Identified as CVE‑2026‑24858, the…

CVE-2026-24858: FortiOS SSO Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

The year 2026 has started with an avalanche of zero-day vulnerabilities, causing a menace for cyber defenders. Right after Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) and a critical flaw in Cisco products (CVE-2026-20045) that were repeatedly exploited for in-the-wild attacks, Fortinet has disclosed another serious issue, immediately drawing the attention of threat actors. Identified as CVE‑2026‑24858, the…

CVE-2026-24858: FortiOS SSO Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

The year 2026 has started with an avalanche of zero-day vulnerabilities, causing a menace for cyber defenders. Right after Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) and a critical flaw in Cisco products (CVE-2026-20045) that were repeatedly exploited for in-the-wild attacks, Fortinet has disclosed another serious issue, immediately drawing the attention of threat actors. Identified as CVE‑2026‑24858, the…

CVE-2026-24858: FortiOS SSO Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

The year 2026 has started with an avalanche of zero-day vulnerabilities, causing a menace for cyber defenders. Right after Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) and a critical flaw in Cisco products (CVE-2026-20045) that were repeatedly exploited for in-the-wild attacks, Fortinet has disclosed another serious issue, immediately drawing the attention of threat actors. Identified as CVE‑2026‑24858, the…

CVE-2026-24858: FortiOS SSO Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

The year 2026 has started with an avalanche of zero-day vulnerabilities, causing a menace for cyber defenders. Right after Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) and a critical flaw in Cisco products (CVE-2026-20045) that were repeatedly exploited for in-the-wild attacks, Fortinet has disclosed another serious issue, immediately drawing the attention of threat actors. Identified as CVE‑2026‑24858, the…

CVE-2026-24858: FortiOS SSO Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

The year 2026 has started with an avalanche of zero-day vulnerabilities, causing a menace for cyber defenders. Right after Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) and a critical flaw in Cisco products (CVE-2026-20045) that were repeatedly exploited for in-the-wild attacks, Fortinet has disclosed another serious issue, immediately drawing the attention of threat actors. Identified as CVE‑2026‑24858, the…

CVE-2026-24858: FortiOS SSO Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

The year 2026 has started with an avalanche of zero-day vulnerabilities, causing a menace for cyber defenders. Right after Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) and a critical flaw in Cisco products (CVE-2026-20045) that were repeatedly exploited for in-the-wild attacks, Fortinet has disclosed another serious issue, immediately drawing the attention of threat actors. Identified as CVE‑2026‑24858, the…

CVE-2026-24858: FortiOS SSO Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

The year 2026 has started with an avalanche of zero-day vulnerabilities, causing a menace for cyber defenders. Right after Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) and a critical flaw in Cisco products (CVE-2026-20045) that were repeatedly exploited for in-the-wild attacks, Fortinet has disclosed another serious issue, immediately drawing the attention of threat actors. Identified as CVE‑2026‑24858, the…

Attackers Taking Over a Real Enterprise  Email Thread to Deliver Phishing 

Think you can trust every email that comes from a business partner?  Unfortunately, that’s no longer guaranteed; attackers now slip into legitimate threads and send messages that look fully authentic.   That’s exactly what happened in a new case uncovered by ANY.RUN researchers; a trust takeover inside a real executive discussion about a document awaiting final approval.   By detonating the suspicious message, the investigation exposed the…

Cybercriminals and nation-state groups are exploiting a six-month old WinRAR defect

Google Threat Intelligence Group warned that a diverse and growing collection of attackers, including nation-state groups and financially motivated cybercriminals, are exploiting a path-traversal vulnerability affecting WinRAR that was disclosed and patched six months ago. The high-severity vulnerability — CVE-2025-8088 — was exploited in the wild almost two weeks before RARLAB, the vendor behind the…

File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake 

Customers need solutions to track inventory data such as files and software across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, detect unauthorized changes, and integrate alerts into their existing security workflows. In this blog post, I walk you through a highly scalable serverless file integrity monitoring solution. It uses AWS Systems Manager Inventory to collect…

File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake 

Customers need solutions to track inventory data such as files and software across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, detect unauthorized changes, and integrate alerts into their existing security workflows. In this blog post, I walk you through a highly scalable serverless file integrity monitoring solution. It uses AWS Systems Manager Inventory to collect…

File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake 

Customers need solutions to track inventory data such as files and software across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, detect unauthorized changes, and integrate alerts into their existing security workflows. In this blog post, I walk you through a highly scalable serverless file integrity monitoring solution. It uses AWS Systems Manager Inventory to collect…

File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake 

Customers need solutions to track inventory data such as files and software across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, detect unauthorized changes, and integrate alerts into their existing security workflows. In this blog post, I walk you through a highly scalable serverless file integrity monitoring solution. It uses AWS Systems Manager Inventory to collect…

File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake 

Customers need solutions to track inventory data such as files and software across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, detect unauthorized changes, and integrate alerts into their existing security workflows. In this blog post, I walk you through a highly scalable serverless file integrity monitoring solution. It uses AWS Systems Manager Inventory to collect…

File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake 

Customers need solutions to track inventory data such as files and software across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, detect unauthorized changes, and integrate alerts into their existing security workflows. In this blog post, I walk you through a highly scalable serverless file integrity monitoring solution. It uses AWS Systems Manager Inventory to collect…

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CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

STRATEGIC REEL: Certificate expiration is speeding up — outpacing legacy management

The clock on digital trust is about to speed up — and many organizations are not prepared for what comes next. Related: The Google Bazel tool outage TLS certificates — the quiet backbone of secure online communication — are headed toward dramatically shorter lifespans, and organizations will have to keep pace. Today, many certificates last…

CISA publishes a post-quantum shopping list for agencies. Security professionals aren’t sold

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is hoping to guide federal agencies through the murky process of updating their technology stack with quantum-resistant encryption. On Jan. 23, the agency released a list of different IT software and hardware products that are commonly purchased by the federal government and use cryptographic algorithms for encryption or authentication.…

A new wave of ‘vishing’ attacks is breaking into SSO accounts in real time

Threat hunters and researchers are racing to contain a wave of voice-phishing attacks targeting single sign-on tools, already leading to data theft and extortion attempts. Multiple cybercrime groups are combining voice calls and advanced phishing kits to trick victims into handing over access — including a group identifying itself as ShinyHunters, which has publicly named alleged…

Some ChatGPT browser extensions are stealing your data

ChatGPT users beware: your browser extensions could be used to steal your accounts and identity. LayerX Research has identified at least 16 Chrome browser extensions for ChatGPT floating around the internet that promise to enhance work productivity. All show signs of being built by the same threat actor and designed for the same purpose: to…

Fix Staff Shortage & Burnout in Your SOC with Better Threat Intelligence

In cybersecurity, humans occupy both ends of the vulnerability spectrum. They click what should never be clicked, reuse passwords like heirlooms, and generously donate credentials to phishing pages that look “kind of legit.”  Yet the same species becomes the strongest link once you step inside a SOC.  Cybersecurity professionals don’t fail because they are careless…

AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in Germany and across Europe can run…

AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in Germany and across Europe can run…

AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in Germany and across Europe can run…

AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in Germany and across Europe can run…

AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in Germany and across Europe can run…

AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in Germany and across Europe can run…

AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in Germany and across Europe can run…

AWS renews the GSMA SAS-SM certification for two AWS Regions and expands to cover four new Regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the expansion of GSMA Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM) certification to four new AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Additionally, the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions have been recertified. All certifications are under the…

AWS renews the GSMA SAS-SM certification for two AWS Regions and expands to cover four new Regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the expansion of GSMA Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM) certification to four new AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Additionally, the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions have been recertified. All certifications are under the…

AWS renews the GSMA SAS-SM certification for two AWS Regions and expands to cover four new Regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the expansion of GSMA Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM) certification to four new AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Additionally, the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions have been recertified. All certifications are under the…

AWS renews the GSMA SAS-SM certification for two AWS Regions and expands to cover four new Regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the expansion of GSMA Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM) certification to four new AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Additionally, the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions have been recertified. All certifications are under the…

AWS renews the GSMA SAS-SM certification for two AWS Regions and expands to cover four new Regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the expansion of GSMA Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM) certification to four new AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Additionally, the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions have been recertified. All certifications are under the…

AWS renews the GSMA SAS-SM certification for two AWS Regions and expands to cover four new Regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the expansion of GSMA Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM) certification to four new AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Additionally, the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Paris) Regions have been recertified. All certifications are under the…

Leader of ransomware crew pleads guilty to four-year crime spree

A Russian national pleaded guilty to leading a ransomware conspiracy that targeted at least 50 victims during a four-year period ending in August 2022.  Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko began participating in ransomware attacks before moving to the United States, but conducted many of his crimes while living in Florida and California, where he’s been out on…

CVE-2026-20045: Critical Zero-Day in Cisco Products Is Actively Exploited in the Wild

Hot on heels of the DoS vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect (CVE-2026-0227), security professionals are facing another major challenge. This time, Cisco announced that several of its unified communications products are affected by a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. If successfully exploited, the flaw enables hackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying…

CVE-2026-20045: Critical Zero-Day in Cisco Products Is Actively Exploited in the Wild

Hot on heels of the DoS vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect (CVE-2026-0227), security professionals are facing another major challenge. This time, Cisco announced that several of its unified communications products are affected by a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. If successfully exploited, the flaw enables hackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying…

CVE-2026-20045: Critical Zero-Day in Cisco Products Is Actively Exploited in the Wild

Hot on heels of the DoS vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect (CVE-2026-0227), security professionals are facing another major challenge. This time, Cisco announced that several of its unified communications products are affected by a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. If successfully exploited, the flaw enables hackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying…

CVE-2026-20045: Critical Zero-Day in Cisco Products Is Actively Exploited in the Wild

Hot on heels of the DoS vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect (CVE-2026-0227), security professionals are facing another major challenge. This time, Cisco announced that several of its unified communications products are affected by a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. If successfully exploited, the flaw enables hackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying…

CVE-2026-20045: Critical Zero-Day in Cisco Products Is Actively Exploited in the Wild

Hot on heels of the DoS vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect (CVE-2026-0227), security professionals are facing another major challenge. This time, Cisco announced that several of its unified communications products are affected by a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. If successfully exploited, the flaw enables hackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying…

ANY.RUN Sandbox & MISP: Confirm Alerts Faster, Stop Incidents Early 

Most SOC teams are overloaded with routine work. Tier 1 & 2 analysts spend too much time validating alerts, moving samples between tools, and chasing missing context. When integrations are weak, investigations slow down, MTTR grows, and SLAs suffer delays. That directly increases operational risk and cost for the business.   ANY.RUN has already helped teams close part of this…

NIST officials detail impact of staff cuts on encryption and other priorities

The National Institute for Standards and Technology is starting 2026 with a smaller staff, a shrinking budget and some big responsibilities around supporting national security and cybersecurity. At a meeting Wednesday of the Information Security Privacy Advisory Board, NIST officials provided updates on how they’re grappling with several Trump administration priorities, including mandates on AI,…

GCVE launches as a decentralized system for tracking software vulnerabilities

A European cybersecurity organization has launched a decentralized system for identifying and numbering software security vulnerabilities, introducing a fundamental shift in how the global technology community could track and manage security flaws. The Global CVE Allocation System, or GCVE, will be maintained by The Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg (CIRCL) as an alternative to the…

Black Basta’s alleged ringleader identified as authorities raid homes of other members

Law enforcement agencies from multiple European countries are still pursuing leads on people involved in the Black Basta ransomware group, nearly a year after the group’s internal chat logs were leaked, exposing key details about its operations, and at least six months since the group claimed responsibility for new attacks. Officials in Ukraine and Germany…

The thin line between saving a company and funding a crime

Ransomware negotiation is a dark but widely acknowledged reality in the cybersecurity industry — one that many argue is a necessary practice, even if it largely occurs out of sight. Brokering payments and terms with cybercriminals who hold organizations’ data and operations hostage places security professionals in a fraught position that requires them to balance…

SHARED INTEL Q&A: AI retrieval systems can still hallucinate; deterministic logic offers a fix

AI hallucination is still the deal-breaker. Related: Correcting LLM hallucinations  As companies rush AI into production, executives face a basic constraint: you cannot automate a workflow if you cannot trust the output. A model that fabricates facts becomes a risk exposure. CISOs now have to explain this clearly to boards, who expect assurances that fabrication…

From Forgotten Tool to Powerful Pivot: Using JA3 to Expose Attackers’ Infrastructure 

A growing skepticism around JA3 is evident, and quite understandable as well. Public lists are rarely updated, and initiatives like JA3-fingerprints have been effectively frozen since 2021, creating the impression that this is a “yesterday’s technology.” However, JA3 fingerprints have not disappeared. Sensors continue to collect them, they appear in reports and threat intelligence interfaces; it’s just that many teams treat them formally, as just another field in logs without meaningful…

News alert: Forrester study finds Airlock Digital’s app control cuts breaches to zero with 224% ROI

ATLANTA, Jan. 20, 2026, CyberNewswire — Airlock Digital, a leader in proactive application control and endpoint security, announced the release of The Total Economic Impact (TEI) of Airlock Digital, an independent study commissioned by Airlock Digital and conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study demonstrates a significant 224% return on investment (ROI) and a $3.8 million net…

News alert: One Identity launches AI-powered ‘Identity Manager’ to speed threat response

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026, CyberNewswire — One Identity, a trusted leader in identity security, today announces a major upgrade to One Identity Manager, a top-rated IGA solution, strengthening identity governance as a critical security control for modern enterprise environments. And I got curious I started asking AI I told him dollars $25 or nothing 80% showcase generation a year generation like $8000 One Identity…

HackerOne rolls out industry framework to support ‘good faith’ AI research

Four years ago, the Department of Justice announced it would no longer seek criminal charges against independent and third-party security researchers for “good faith” security research under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Now, a prominent bug bounty platform is attempting to build a framework for industry to offer similar protections to researchers who study…

Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. These reports demonstrate our continuous commitment to adhering to…

Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. These reports demonstrate our continuous commitment to adhering to…

Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. These reports demonstrate our continuous commitment to adhering to…

Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. These reports demonstrate our continuous commitment to adhering to…

Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. These reports demonstrate our continuous commitment to adhering to…

Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. These reports demonstrate our continuous commitment to adhering to…

Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. These reports demonstrate our continuous commitment to adhering to…

Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2025 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, giving customers a full year of assurance. These reports demonstrate our continuous commitment to adhering to…

Malware Trends Overview Report: 2025 

Summarizing the past year’s threat landscape based on activity observed in ANY.RUN’s Interactive Sandbox, this annual report provides insights into the most detected malware types, families, TTPs, and phishing threats of 2025.  For additional insights, view ANY.RUN’s quarterly malware trends reports.   Key Takeaways  Threat activity surged, with total sandbox sessions up 72% and malicious detections growing proportionally, reflecting increased frequency and depth of analysis among SOCs.  Stealers and RATs maintain dominance, tripling in activity compared to 2024.  Lumma and XWorm led malware family rankings, highlighting…