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The European Union (EU) is redefining its digital landscape with sovereignty, security and trust at the core. In the 2025 EU State of the Union, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen outlined a bold vision: sovereignty, resilience, data protection and digital identity. These priorities reflect a reality where security, privacy and accountability are not only regulatory demands but also competitive advantages.

Credential abuse occurs when cybercriminals use stolen or leaked credentials to gain unauthorized access to online accounts and critical systems. As part of broader cyber attacks, credential abuse is a highly effective attack vector, especially when many people reuse the same password across multiple accounts. Credential abuse can lead to data breaches, identity theft, financial loss and lasting reputational damage for both individuals and organizations.

Learn how GitGuardian supports expanding privileged access management to include non-human identities and improve secrets management across your infrastructure and vaults.

In cybersecurity, timing is paramount. But the window of danger now opens earlier than most solutions can see. While many anti-phishing and ATO solutions advertise real-time detection, most only activate once the login attempt is underway, after the critical exposure window has already opened. By then, the scam is already in motion. Phishing, impersonation, and credential theft increasingly take root upstream, during redirects, fake site loads, and user misdirection.

Welcome to The researcher’s desk – a content series where the Detectify security research team will conduct a technical autopsy on vulnerabilities that are particularly interesting, complex, or persistent. The goal here is not to report the latest research (for which you can refer to the Detectify release log); it is to take a closer look at certain vulnerabilities, regardless of their disclosure date, that still offer critical lessons.

WatchGuard has been named a Leader in the 2025 SPARK Matrix: Network Detection & Response (NDR) by QKS Group, recognizing our continued focus on delivering advanced, accessible, and high-impact security for midsize enterprises and managed service providers. The SPARK Matrix report delivers a detailed analysis of the global NDR landscape, evaluating vendors across technology excellence and customer impact.

Around the world, banks and payment processors are reporting an explosion of mysterious tap-to-pay transactions happening nowhere near real cardholders. The European Association for Secure Transactions (EAST), for instance, has tracked a 1,500% surge in these relay-based attacks over the past year, with incidents stretching from Santiago to Singapore.

Rate this post Last Updated on October 31, 2025 by Narendra Sahoo NIS2 doesn’t test your paperwork. It tests your readiness — that starts long before the audit. When there’s an audit, an auditor doesn’t just check how neat your policies look — we check how your systems behave when no one’s watching.

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If vulnerabilities were a currency, they’d be inflating faster than anything else in the world. According to Astra’s State of Continuous Pentesting Report, 5.33 new ones are discovered every minute, i.e., by the time you’ve finished this paragraph, dozens more doors have swung open for attackers.