Cisco Talos, one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams globally, released its Incident Trends report for the third quarter of 2025, highlighting the latest threat trends, top ransomware families and new attacker tactics: Ransomware Trends Cisco Talos’ Q3 2025 report reveals that
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How Cybercriminals and Nation-State Actors Are Leveraging Sophisticated Social Engineering Techniques to Attack Global Organizations at Scale Today, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 released the 2025 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report: Social Engineering Edition. This report explores the top initial attack vector we observed over the past year – social engineering.
Cisco Talos’ Q2 2025 report reveals a notable shift in attacker objectives and methods. Although phishing activity declined by 40% compared to Q1, it remained the leading initial access method for threat actors, with most campaigns focused on credential theft. Attackers increasingly relied on compromised internal or trusted business partner email accounts to deliver
Group-IB, a leading creator of cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime, announced today that it has contributed to INTERPOL’s “Operation Serengeti 2.0” between June and August 2025. The multinational operation resulted in the arrest of 1,209 cybercriminals across Africa targeting nearly 88,000 victims globally, and the recovery of
Cisco Talos, one of the world’s most trusted threat intelligence teams, has published a new report revealing how cybercriminals are increasingly abusing artificial intelligence (AI) tools – particularly large language models (LLMs) – to enhance their operations and evade traditional defenses. The findings highlight how both custom-built and jailbroken (modified)
Schools and universities, with their treasure troves of sensitive data and often insufficient cyber security measures, have become prime targets for cybercriminals. This is evident in the latest report from Check Point Research, the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading AI-powered, cloud-delivered cyber security
Cybercriminals continue to target critical infrastructure for substantial financial gain while also strategically attacking third-party vendors. And because, like any enterprise, they aim to maximize the returns on their investments in these attacks, their approach is both aggressive and persistent. To effectively defend themselves from these campaigns, businesses need to
















