Ian Barker

The banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector has been the most targeted in 2025 accounting for 17.8 percent of all incidents (172 incidents out of 966) tracked in Cyble’s latest North American Threat Landscape Report.

The report describes a mature leak economy where a small cluster of prolific actors generate many listings, supported by a large ‘long tail’ of smaller sellers -- meaning BFSI data can be sourced by both major brokers and many opportunists.

ChatGPT burst onto the scene just three years ago, but a new survey reveals that 34 percent of US adults now use AI platforms daily, and nearly half say they’re using them more than they were a year ago.

The survey, of over 1,000 from US adults, from Tinuiti shows that Gen Z and millennials are leading the AI charge. 67 percent of both groups use AI at least weekly. Platforms like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Character AI, and Sora are carving out generational niches.

Regulatory tightening across the EU and UK, including the EU’s new anti-money laundering package and platform-economy rules, as well as emerging age-assurance requirements around online safety, have pushed organizations to formalize identity checks at scale.

But identity verification provider Veriff has published its 2026 Identity Fraud Report, showing that 4.18 percent of all digital identity checks processed through its platform in 2025 were flagged as fraudulent – the equivalent of one in every 25 verification attempts across its global dataset.

Managing identity is one of the more challenging cybersecurity tasks and can soak up a good deal of time and resources.

We spoke to Raz Rotenberg, co-founder and CTO of Fabrix Security, to discuss the rise of self-governing IAM systems that don’t just enforce policy -- but continuously adapt, reason, and remediate access in real time.

A new report reveals that security leaders are facing increased pressure in managing behavioral cybersecurity risk as the workforce transforms to include AI.

The study from KnowBe4, of 700 cybersecurity leaders and 3,500 employees, finds incidents relating to the human element surged by 90 percent in the past year. Examples of ways these incidents can occur include social engineering attacks such as phishing or business email compromise (BEC), risky or malicious behavior and human error.

Attacks on operational technology (OT) are growing more automated and indiscriminate, Forescout Research- Vedere Labs’ latest honeypot analysis shows just how aggressively adversaries are probing industrial systems.

New data shows industrial routers are now the most attacked devices in OT environments, drawing 67 percent of all malicious activity in Forescout’s 90-day honeypot analysis.

More than one in three organizations (37 percent) say AI-driven attacks forced them to adjust their security approach over the past year according to a new report from Netwrix.

The global survey of 2,150 IT and security professionals from 121 countries finds 30 percent say their business uses AI and must now protect it like any other critical system. Compliance is catching up too, 29 percent report auditors now require proof of data security and privacy in AI-based systems.

The latest Threat Insights Report from HP Threat Research reveals how attackers are refining campaigns with professional-looking animations and purchasable malware services.

The report provides an analysis of real-world cyberattacks, helping organizations keep up with the latest techniques cybercriminals use to evade detection and breach PCs in the fast-changing cybercrime landscape.

With attackers moving faster using AI tools and attack surfaces growing more complex, security teams need solutions that remove manual work, deliver secure, context-aware intelligence instantly, and help them shift toward a pre-emptive security model.

This is why Bugcrowd is launching new functionality in the form of Bugcrowd AI Triage Assistant and Bugcrowd AI Analytics, to bring unprecedented speed and intelligence and insights to the process of building security resilience.

Work AI specialist Glean has today announced the launch of the Work AI Institute, a first-of-its-kind research initiative dedicated to decoding what actually drives results when companies commit to operating with AI projects at the core of their businesses.

The Work AI Institute brings together leading researchers from Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Notre Dame, University College London, Emory, and UNC Charlotte to answer the pressing question: What’s really working with AI at work? The Institute blends academic rigor with real-world data, experimentation, and end user insights to help enterprises separate signals from noise and accelerate meaningful AI impact.

Research released today reveals that cloud infrastructure has become the second-largest expense for tech companies, following headcount; averaging 10 percent of revenue and increasing rapidly. What’s more nearly 90 percent of companies report that it's directly affecting profitability.

The study from Cloud Capital surveyed 100 CFOs and senior financial decision makers within SaaS and technology businesses of up to 1,000 employees across the US and UK.

Data that was once scattered across sprawling systems and silos -- providing natural obstacles to attackers -- is now concentrated and highly portable within AI models. This fundamental shift redefines the challenge of digital security.

We spoke to Dr. Luigi Caramico, CTO and co-founder of DataKrypto, to discuss how organizations can repond to this challenge.

A new report reveals an increasing disconnect between cybersecurity and compliance priorities and organizational capacity to address them.

The study from Secureframe, based on a survey of 255 security, compliance, and IT professionals, finds security teams are carrying unprecedented responsibility with insufficient resources, manual compliance work is consuming critical time, and the absence of verifiable security credentials is directly impacting revenue.

A new identity fraud report from AU10TIX looks at how fraud is shifting from isolated attempts to adaptive, self-optimizing systems, and the need for early-warning intelligence to reshape the future of fraud prevention amid rapid advances in artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

“Fraud is no longer a static event; it’s a living signal moving through networks and devices,” says Yair Tal, CEO of AU10TIX. “At AU10TIX, we see the daily challenges our customers face as fraud evolves faster than ever. Our mission is to protect them, not just by responding to attacks, but by anticipating them. Our early-warning system helps ensure their businesses stay one step ahead, detecting risk before truth starts to drift.”

New analysis from enterprise-class domain registrar CSC reveals that for the past three years, seasonal IP infringements have risen sharply in Q4 and remained elevated through January, when post-holiday sales draw heavy consumer traffic.

The combination of high demand, gift-driven impulse buying, and deep discounting creates a perfect environment for cybercriminals to ply their trade. Over the holidays, fraudsters set up fake websites and lookalike domains impersonating legitimate brands.