Network Security

The Good | Courts Sentence “The Com” Online Syndicate Member for Blackmail & Sextortion A court in the UK has sentenced a member of the decentralized online cybercrime collective known as “The Com” to two years in prison following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Justin Swaddle, who operated under the digital aliases […]

The Good | Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty as Ransom Cartel Creator Draws 16 Years Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court this week to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts. The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and exposed records tied to

AI agents have made their way into virtually every layer of your environment. They run in the apps your employees adopt, on the endpoints where agents execute code, as users with access privileges those agents borrow, and in the cloud workloads that scale them. The platform that you trust to secure your endpoints is already

A joint Tenable-SentinelOne analysis of 93 CVE-actor attribution pairs reveals that both state-sponsored actors and cybercriminals independently converge on the same edge infrastructure. It is the shared attack surface where state-sponsored threat actors and financially motivated criminal groups independently converge — not the province of a single adversary category, and not exclusively a nation-state problem,

The question has shifted. Security leaders spent several years debating whether AI would reshape security operations. That debate has settled. Now the conversation is about pace. How fast can the foundation be built, and what do organizations that moved early have to show for it? For the second year, SentinelOne® commissioned 451 Research to survey

The Good | U.S. Charges Iranian Cyberattackers Over Mass Intellectual Property Theft The U.S. Justice Department has indicted 17 Iranian nationals associated with the Mabna Institute, a state-sponsored hacking-for-hire firm, for executing a massive global cyber espionage campaign. Operating since 2013, the malicious network systematically targeted academic institutions, private corporations, and government agencies to harvest

The Good | Authorities Launch New Operations Against Cybercrime Networks & Supply Chain Attackers Operation Jackal IV, coordinated by INTERPOL across 22 nations, has led to the arrest of 58 individuals and the identification of over 200 suspects linked to West African cybercrime networks. The joint action successfully dismantled elements of the Black Axe syndicate,

AI is absorbing the volume work that makes up the fundamental architecture of the Security Operations Center (SOC) tier system. While the tiers and the work aren’t going away, a junior and senior analyst’s day-to-day is changing fast. At some point in the last week, every analyst on your team made the same call. Close

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are currently confronting scalability challenges on two fronts: structural and cognitive. The day-to-day reality of modern defensive operations is stark: an analyst frequently begins a shift facing a queue deeply saturated with unvetted alerts. To process a single event, the analyst must open the alert, pivot to a secondary console to

The Good | Authorities Sanction Cybercriminals & Dismantle Russian Bulletproof Hosting Infrastructure The EU and the United Kingdom have jointly sanctioned multiple Russian individuals and entities for targeting government networks and critical infrastructure across Europe. The sanctions specifically target senior Russia military intelligence (GRU) officers and operators, as well as four entities linked to the