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Release Notes: Decision-Ready SOC Reporting, Elastic Security Integration, and 1400+ Threat Coverage Updates

Security leaders are under growing pressure to reduce the time between threat detection and response without adding more complexity to already overloaded SOC workflows. ANY.RUN’s May updates help teams act on security risks more efficiently, improve consistency across investigations, and maintain stronger protection as attacker tactics continue to evolve. Discover the updates your team can…

Oil shipments, drone makers, and a poisoned code library targeted in recent APT campaigns

Geopolitical pressure drove much of the state-sponsored cyber activity recorded between October 2025 and March 2026, according to ESET’s latest APT Activity Report. Espionage groups aligned with China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran adjusted their targets to match the economic and security concerns of their governments. Attack sources (Source: ESET) “In Asia, the campaigns primarily…

ScalePad CEO Chris Day on MSP & SMB AI Adoption in 2026

ScalePad CEO Chris Day says MSPs are facing mounting pressure to support artificial intelligence as SMB clients adopt AI tools faster than many providers can operationalize, creating new urgency around automation, advisory services, and AI governance. Clients are moving faster than providers MSPs are being pulled into artificial intelligence faster than many expected, as small…

Vulnerabilities have become cyber attackers’ No. 1 door to the enterprise

Patching practices are coming under intense pressure of late, as time-to-exploit windows accelerate — a new reality likely to worsen as AI assistance in attack chains rises. Now cyber defenders have another cause for flaw alarm: Vulnerability exploitation has significantly pulled away from stolen credentials as the most common entry point in security breaches, according…

Q&A: AI Ushers in a New Era in MSP Service Efficiency

The managed services industry is under increasing pressure to scale operations, improve response times, and maintain profitability without continuously adding headcount. For many MSPs, the challenge lies in the operational burden that is created by workflows that still depend heavily on human coordination at nearly every stage of the service desk process. According to Mark…

Pressure mounts on Canvas as data leak extortion deadline looms

Pressure is mounting on Instructure, the company behind Canvas, as cybercriminals threaten to leak a trove of sensitive data they claim was stolen during a prolonged cyberattack on the widely used education tech platform. Widespread outages left schools, students and teachers temporarily unable to access critical data late last week after the company took Canvas…

Phishing-to-RMM Attacks: The Remote Access Blind Spot CISOs Can’t Ignore 

CISOs are under pressure to prove that their security programs can detect threats early, reduce business risk, and support fast, confident response. But that becomes harder when attackers stop relying on obviously malicious tools. In recent phishing-to-RMM campaigns observed by ANY.RUN analysts, threat actors are using fake Microsoft, Adobe, and OneDrive pages to deliver legitimate…

Inside ZionSiphon: politically driven malware aims at Israeli water systems

New ZionSiphon malware targets water systems, and allows attackers to alter pressure and chlorine levels. A flaw makes it ineffective for now. Darktrace analyzed ZionSiphon, a new malware designed to target water treatment and desalination systems, which aims to disrupt operations by altering hydraulic pressure and increasing chlorine levels to unsafe levels. The malware combines…

Optiv CRO: AI Driving New Enterprise Security Risks

Enterprise security teams are under increasing pressure as AI adoption accelerates, introducing new risks around identity, governance, and operational resilience.  Channel Insider spoke with Optiv CRO John Hurley about how enterprise priorities are shifting—and where partners are seeing the most demand in 2026. Optiv’s advisory model reflects shift toward services-led security Optiv supports its enterprise…

Transforming campus IT operations to enhance student experiences

GUEST OPINION: Universities are under growing pressure to deliver consistent, high-quality digital services for students, academics, and researchers. IT teams at these institutions are expected to provide uninterrupted availability and seamless experiences across complex ecosystems spanning core enterprise platforms, cloud infrastructure, and teaching technologies. This challenge is compounded by budget constraints, limited headcount, and the…

Epic Fury introduces new layer of enterprise risk

Operation Epic Fury — the US administration’s sustained kinetic pressure on core Iranian regime assets — introduces a new layer of operational risk for every multinational with people, assets, or dependencies in the Middle East region and beyond. The immediate briefings from Washington — early damage assessments, stated intent, geopolitical framing, and situational updates and…

Healthcare organizations are accepting cyber risk to cut costs

Healthcare organizations are cutting cybersecurity budgets under financial pressure even as the threats targeting their systems intensify. A PwC survey of 381 global healthcare executives, conducted between May and July 2025, puts numbers to the gap between the risks the sector faces and the controls it has in place. Key findings (Source: PwC) Data protection…

Fallout from latest Ivanti zero-days spreads to nearly 100 victims

Ivanti customers, including major government agencies, face mounting pressure as attackers expand their scope of targets to exploit a pair of vulnerabilities the vendor disclosed late January after in-the-wild attacks already occurred. The Netherlands’ Dutch Data Protection Authority and the Council for the Judiciary confirmed both agencies were impacted by attacks linked to the Ivanti…

Fallout from latest Ivanti zero-days spreads to nearly 100 victims

Ivanti customers, including major government agencies, face mounting pressure as attackers expand their scope of targets to exploit a pair of vulnerabilities the vendor disclosed late January after in-the-wild attacks already occurred. The Netherlands’ Dutch Data Protection Authority and the Council for the Judiciary confirmed both agencies were impacted by attacks linked to the Ivanti…