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The Silent Vulnerability: Why Non-Human Identities Are Now Prime for Exploitation

The Silent Vulnerability: Why Non-Human Identities Are Now Prime for Exploitation

Mar 4, 2026 By Bharath Rangamannar, SVP Engineering In Reach Security
The explosive growth of nonhuman identities (NHIs) has quietly become one of the most pressing cybersecurity challenges of the modern enterprise. Machine identities, API keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, digital certificates, and other automated credentials now outnumber human identities by ever-growing ratios, sometimes by as much as 50 to one. However, despite their ubiquity and critical operational role, NHIs rarely receive the same level of governance or scrutiny as human-centered identities. Visibility is fragmented, controls are inconsistent, and access is often far broader than it needs to be.
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manageengine

The security gaps that caused 2025's biggest breaches

Mar 4, 2026 By bhuvaneswari.kg@zohocorp.com In ManageEngine
As cybercrime becomes increasingly complex, the line between resilience and catastrophe becomes increasingly thin. In 2025, healthcare, automotive, financial, defense, and technology companies suffered massive breaches that cost billions in losses, exposed millions of compromised records, and caused months of operational paralysis.
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vista infosec

NIS2 Documentation Requirements: Policies You Must Have

Mar 4, 2026 By Narendra Sahoo In VISTA InfoSec
NIS2 documentation requirements form the essential foundation of regulatory compliance — defining the documented controls that underpin NIS2 audit readiness and demonstrable cybersecurity governance. Yet in 2026, the landscape is shifting: documentation alone is no longer enough.
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upguard

The Vendor Tiering Series: Mapping Tiers to Inherent Risk

Mar 4, 2026 By Revashni Moodley In UpGuard
Cybersecurity doesn’t really have quiet days. Usually, it’s just long stretches of constant noise before realizing you’ve been blindsided. That blindside is a flat list of unprioritized vendors. Without a way to filter what matters when a team needs to mitigate the fallout of a crisis, a vendor inventory like this becomes a compliance-only activity that offers a false sense of security.
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memcyco

How LAPSUS$ Bypassed MFA and How to Prevent Similar Identity Attacks

Mar 4, 2026 By Julian Agudelo In Memcyco
LAPSUS$-linked breaches did not break multi-factor authentication (MFA) cryptographically. Attackers obtained valid authentication outcomes through techniques commonly described as MFA fatigue attacks or MFA bypass attacks, including push-prompt abuse, SIM swapping, social engineering, and session token replay. Understanding how these attacks succeed helps explain where modern identity defenses must evolve.
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Zenity

What a Rogue Vacuum Army Teaches Us About Securing AI

Mar 4, 2026 By Andrew Silberman In Zenity
If you’re like me, you’ve been enthralled with the recent story, expertly written by Sean Hollister at The Verge, about how Sammy Azdoufal built a remote control for his DJI Romo vacuum with a PlayStation controller, and ended up in control of 7,000+ robovacs all over the world. On the surface, it sounds like vibe coding gone slightly sideways. I mean, really, what could a vacuum possibly do? Turns out… a lot.
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cato networks

Cato CTRL Threat Research: New MongoDB Vulnerability Allows Instant Remote Server Takedown (CVE-2026-25611)

Mar 4, 2026 By Vitaly Simonovich In Cato Networks
Cato CTRL’s Vitaly Simonovich (senior security researcher) has discovered a new vulnerability (CVE-2026-25611 with a “High” severity rating of 7.5 out of 10) in all MongoDB versions with compression enabled (version 3.4+, enabled by default since version 3.6), including MongoDB Atlas. The vulnerability can enable a threat actor to crash any MongoDB server. MongoDB Atlas clusters are not internet-reachable by default.
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cyberark

Rethinking SaaS access security after login

Mar 4, 2026 By Brooke Markham In CyberArk
Most organizations have gotten very good at protecting the front door. We invest heavily in single sign-on (SSO), mandate multi-factor authentication (MFA), and lock down who can log in, from where, and under what conditions. We do everything to ensure that the right user has the right access. But one critical question often still goes unanswered: What really happens after someone logs in?
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acronis

3 pillars of hyperproductivity for MSPs

Mar 4, 2026 By Allison Ho In Acronis
The shift to distributed work has permanently changed how managed service providers (MSPs) operate. Endpoints now span offices, homes, airports and everything in between, and each one requires consistent protection, visibility and management. Attackers have also accelerated their use of automation and AI, increasing pressure on technicians already managing growing workloads. Traditional, manual service models can no longer keep up.
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