What happens when a malware analyst decides to build a product he always wished he had? The case of ANY.RUN tells us that ten years later it may turn into an industry-standard solution, adopted by 74 Fortune 100 companies. Celebrating a decade of ANY.RUN, CEO Aleksey Lapshin shared his perspective on the evolution of the company,…
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How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption
What happens when a phishing email looks clean enough to pass through security, but dangerous enough to expose the business after one click? That is the gap many SOCs still struggle with: the attacks that leave teams unsure what was exposed, who else was targeted, and how far the risk has spread. Early phishing detection…
AI, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Why the best security investment a board can make in 2026 isn’t another tool
There is a conversation that happens in boardrooms every quarter that security leaders will recognize. The CISO presents the threat landscape. The board asks what the company needs. The answer, almost always, is another tool. Another platform, another module, another vendor to close the latest gap. The budget gets approved. The tool gets deployed. And…
AI, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management
MicroStealer Analysis: A Fast-Spreading Infostealer with Limited Detection
Security teams depend on early signals to spot and contain new threats. But what happens when a fully capable infostealer spreads while traditional detections stay limited? In recent investigations, ANY.RUN researchers observed MicroStealer in 40+ sandbox sessions in less than a month, despite low public visibility. Early activity points to distribution through compromised or impersonated accounts,…
AI, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News
Jack & Jill went up the hill — and an AI tried to hack them
What happens when an autonomous AI agent is turned loose on another autonomous AI agent? It chains together bugs that humans would consider benign, easily bypasses authentication controls, and even unexpectedly masquerades as Donald Trump to get its way. This was what CodeWall found in a recent red-teaming experiment when it pitted its autonomous AI…
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How Bendigo Bank turned a data challenge from Up Bank into the streaming backbone powering its AI future
For a 168-year-old institution, transformation rarely happens overnight, particularly in the banking sector, which is well-known for its legacy systems.
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News, malware, Risk Management
Moonrise RAT: A New Low-Detection Threat with High-Cost Consequences
Security professionals rely on early detection signals to prioritize and contain incidents. But what happens when a fully capable RAT generates none? In a recent investigation, the ANY.RUN experts uncovered a new Go-based remote access trojan we named Moonrise. At the time of analysis, it wasn’t detected on VirusTotal and had no vendor signatures tied to it. That’s the problem teams can’t ignore: credential theft, remote command execution, and persistence…