It’s almost time to wave goodbye to the year that was 2024, and as we look ahead to 2025 and the challenges that might bring, now is a good time to reflect on the best, the worst and the ugliest cybersecurity news stories over the last 12 months. The Best Law enforcement took the fight […]

The Good | Ragnarok Ransomware Operators & DDoS-For-Hire Servers Disrupted by LEAs Law enforcement agencies this week took decisive action to disrupt a Chinese firm for its involvement in a series of Ragnarok ransomware attacks and 27 DDoS-for-fire servers used by cybercriminals to launch attacks on targets of their choosing. The U.S. Treasury Department has

Last week marked another action-packed year at AWS re:Invent for the SentinelOne Team. Year after year, a consistent highlight from the event is the strong sense of community it builds with people from different backgrounds, geographies, and business types – all unified by their interest in innovating and doing business on AWS. This year, the

$121.6 billion was lost in 2023 to retail theft—also known as shrinkage or shrink. When we say that Black Friday is a busy shopping day, shrinkage is the elephant in the room. It’s not just busy for employees and customers—it’s peak season for loss prevention personnel who investigate the many theft incidents that happen amidst

In cybersecurity, speed and accuracy are necessities. Every second counts, and every detection could be the difference between resilience and breach. That’s why SentinelOne takes immense pride in protecting our customers, monitoring trillions of signals annually across organizations from SMBs to Fortune 10 enterprises to top government entities and critical infrastructure. With visibility into the

The Good | China Spy Handed 4-Year Jail Term Good news for national security this week as the U.S. Department of Justice successfully prosecuted a 59-year-old man for spying on behalf of China. Ping Li, of Wesley Chapel, Florida, was sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to act as a spy for China’s

The Good | DoJ Charges Phobos RaaS Admin & 5 Defendants Running Data Extortion Attacks Russian national, Evgenii Ptitsyn, has been extradited from South Korea to the U.S. to face charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and extortion related to hacking. According to court reports, Ptitsyn provided the Phobos ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation

The widespread adoption of AI introduces unique security considerations. Misconfigurations in AI infrastructure and unsecured APIs can create weaknesses that cybercriminals will exploit. In this blog post, we dive deep into how SentinelOne’s agentless AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) solution addresses these challenges by offering AI inventory automation, misconfiguration detection, and attack path analysis to

The Good | Extortionist Sentenced to 10 Years For Cybercrimes Against U.S. Medical Clinics This week, the FBI sentenced Robert Purbeck to 10 years in prison for stealing personal data from over 132,000 individuals across 19 U.S. organizations. Purbeck is also known as “Lifelock” and “Studmaster” online and has been carrying out cybercrimes and extortion

As serverless computing continues to revolutionize the cloud landscape, AWS Lambda has emerged as a pivotal service, offering a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model that allows developers to focus solely on code while AWS manages the underlying infrastructure. This shift towards serverless architectures brings new security challenges and considerations that security researchers and professionals must understand and