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Threat intelligence holds incredible promise—but only if it translates into timely, decisive action. Too often, security teams chase disconnected data across fragmented tools, incompatible formats, and siloed workflows. The result? Slower response times, missed threats, and exhausted SOC analysts. The answer is clear: unified intelligence. That’s the power of the Securonix Unified Defense SIEM and ThreatQ integration—streamlined, contextualized, and built for action.

This week, Tanium’s Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team investigates SystemBC, a large-scale proxy botnet that’s leveraging compromised virtual private server (VPS) infrastructure to support cybercriminal operations, including ransomware and credential theft. Next, the team looks at ShinyHunters—a financially motivated data extortion group that’s now targeting enterprise cloud applications.

In the race to secure today’s ever-expanding attack surface, many companies have made a practice of using a mix of tools to monitor, assess, and remediate threats. This practice has resulted in a fragmented and chaotic landscape of security solutions across several teams, increasing complexity and forcing companies to have a reactive vs. proactive security posture.

AI code review leverages artificial intelligence models and machine learning techniques to analyze and provide feedback on source code, automating and improving the traditional code review process. It is crucial for software development workflows, offering significant advantages to developers and teams. AI code review can scan for bugs, style violations, security vulnerabilities, and other issues.

For this Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we thought it important to draw attention to some of the most common and dangerous API vulnerabilities. This week, we’re starting with Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA). BOLA vulnerabilities top the OWASP API Top Ten. And for good reason: they’re startlingly prevalent, remarkably easy to exploit, and can have devastating consequences. So, let’s explore what they are, why they matter, and how you can mitigate them.

Digital identities are under siege. The latest Osterman Research white paper offers a sobering discrepancy between maturity and reality. The study surveyed 126 US based professionals responsible for identity security across organizations with more than 500 employees. The findings reveal a growing gap between perceived maturity and actual readiness to combat identity-led threats.

The AI boom has introduced intelligent tools into most industries, not just in tech-first organizations. But the rising adoption also opens the door to new risks. ‍ Vanta’s AI governance survey found that 63% of organizations rate data privacy and protection as the top concern with AI, followed by security and adversarial threats at 50%. These numbers emphasize how urgently organizations want to prioritize defenses for AI-specific attack vectors.

We are living through the fourth industrial revolution: the age of AI. Just as with the steam, electricity, and the digital revolutions that preceded it, this leap forward requires a parallel leap in security. AI is transforming how businesses operate and how adversaries attack. They are moving at machine speed, compressing the defender’s response window from weeks to mere seconds.

Explore how Elastic Security's unified platform with SIEM and XDR protections transforms SOC workflows through AI-powered analytics and consolidated security operations. Elastic Security Director of Product Management James Spiteri recently joined cybersecurity researcher, educator, and content creator John Hammond for an in-depth technical demonstration. John spends his days analyzing malware, breaking down attacker techniques, and making hackers earn their access.

Web application firewalls (WAF) is a protection mechanism to help block potential malicious requests before they can reach the application itself. Often this is implemented as a proxy, intercepting HTTP requests, analyzing them, and finally deciding on an action. While effective, over relying on it could lead to a false sense of security that allows attackers to exploit unresolved internal issues.