Category: Sector Trends

Embracing the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Talent Summary This commentary highlights the acute global cybersecurity labour shortage (NIST estimates ~3.4 million) and proposes student-run security operations centres (SOCs) as a…

Federal Cuts Put Local, State Agencies at Cyber-Risk Summary Cybercriminals and nation-state actors are increasingly targeting smaller state and local government bodies just as federal cybersecurity support and staffing have…

Scammers Are Using Grok to Spread Malicious Links on X Summary Bad actors on X are abusing Grok, X’s native AI assistant, to amplify and publish malicious links hidden in…

Anyone Using Agentic AI Needs to Understand Toxic Flows Image credit: sdecoret via Adobe Stock Photo Summary This Dark Reading piece explains why “toxic flows” are an emerging and critical…

Secretive MaaS Group ‘TAG-150’ Develops Novel ‘CastleRAT’ Summary Researchers have uncovered a stealthy malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation labelled TAG-150 that centres on a loader called CastleLoader and a family of remote…

How Has IoT Security Changed Over the Past 5 Years? Summary IoT adoption has grown significantly across industries, but security improvements have been uneven. Experts interviewed for the article note…

Critical SAP S/4HANA Vulnerability Under Attack, Patch Now Summary A critical code-injection flaw in SAP S/4HANA (CVE-2025-42957) with a 9.9 CVSS score is being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability…

The Critical Failure in Vulnerability Management Summary Commentary by Amar Ramakrishnan argues the vulnerability-management market is struggling because vendors built businesses around surfacing flaws and satisfying audits rather than reducing…

45 New Domains Linked to Salt Typhoon, UNC4841 Summary Researchers at Silent Push uncovered 45 domains — some registered as far back as 2020 — linked to China‑backed threat actors…