While the numbers are modest, the crackdown on cybercrime involved 13 countries in the MENA region, the largest law enforcement collaboration to date.
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Global Security News
The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
Booed commencement speakers, blocked data centers, plummeting poll numbers: The fast-growing industry has a faster-growing crisis.
AI, Europe, Global Security News
European AI spending set to hit $290 billion by 2029
European enterprises are committing serious money to AI, and the numbers are accelerating. According to IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide, AI spending across Europe will reach $290 billion by 2029, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 33.7%. Organizations across the continent are moving AI out of proof-of-concept projects and into…
AI, Global Security News
Number Usage in Passwords: Take Two, (Thu, Apr 9th)
In a previous diary [1], we looked to see how numbers were used within passwords submitted to honeypots. One of the items of interest was how dates, and more specifically years, were represented within the data and how that changed over time. It is often seen that years and seasons are used in passwords, especially…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Escaping the COTS trap
Over the years, enterprise cybersecurity environments have accumulated staggering numbers of commercial tools. Industry research converges on a consistent picture of tool proliferation that drives complexity, cost, and risk. The global cybersecurity market is valued at approximately $243 billion in 2024 and projected to surpass $520 billion annually by 2026. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software promises…
AI, APAC, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Risk Management, Russia
Boards don’t need cyber metrics — they need risk signals
Security teams live in a world of numbers. Dashboards depict counts of blocked attacks, phishing clicks, vulnerabilities discovered, patches applied, alerts triaged, and incidents closed. Over the past decade, the cybersecurity industry has become adept at measuring activity with increasing precision. Experts say what remains far less consistent is whether those measurements help boards govern…
Global Security News
Record Number of Ransomware Victims and Groups in 2025
Searchlight Cyber reports a 30% annual increase in ransomware victim numbers in 2025
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
Open source maintainers being targeted by AI agent as part of ‘reputation farming’
AI agents able to submit huge numbers of pull requests (PRs) to open-source project maintainers risk creating the conditions for future supply chain attacks targeting important software projects, developer security company Socket has argued. The warning comes after one of its developers, Nolan Lawson, last week received an email regarding the PouchDB JavaScript database he…