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Remote Access Trojans (RATs) continue to be one of the most actively traded malware categories across dark web forums. Their appeal lies in flexibility: a single framework can support espionage, credential theft, ransomware staging, or long-term persistence. Recently our team Identified a dark web actor advertised a tool called“noobsaiBOT”, claiming it to be a fully custom, stealth-focused RAT with source code included, priced at$20,000 and offered as a one-time exclusive sale.

With only a few days remaining in 2025, we sat down with Sundhar Annamalai, Chief Strategy Officer, LevelBlue, to discuss some of the major inflection points facing the cybersecurity industry in the coming year.

After several months of declining billings, the AIA’s latest ABI reveals what many architecture firms experience every day: projects are slowing, decisions are taking longer, and securing new work is becoming more challenging. A softer market forces tough choices, but it also creates rare breathing room to fix long-standing operational pain points, especially those tied to scattered data, manual workflows, and inconsistent project startup processes.

The University of Phoenix was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, as a private, for-profit university designed for working adults and non-traditional students balancing family, career, and education. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, the institution later became one of the first online universities, offering personal support, career guidance, and flexible learning opportunities through over 100 programs.

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been disclosed in n8n, a popular open-source workflow automation platform widely used to orchestrate business processes, SaaS integrations, and internal automation pipelines. Tracked as CVE-2025-68613, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.9 (Critical) and allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary system-level code on vulnerable n8n instances.

Secrets run your applications: API keys, SSH keys, tokens, passwords, database credentials. They reside in repositories, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code templates, containers, and even chat logs; one stray commit is enough to expose a path into production. In 2024, abuse of valid account credentials was the initial access vector in roughly 30% of incidents investigated.

Forget the old-school spreadsheets. In the Agentic Era, a cybersecurity risk assessment is no longer a “once-a-year” event you do for the auditors. It is now a living, breathing strategy of Continuous Exposure Management (CEM). Think of it as a high-tech health check for your company’s digital life. It identifies where you’re bleeding data, who’s trying to cut you, and how to build a digital immune system that fights back.

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s worth pausing, not to slow down, but to reflect on how rapidly the mobile security landscape is evolving and what that evolution now demands from all of us. This year reinforced something we have long believed at Appknox: security can no longer be an isolated activity or a late-stage control. As mobile applications become more interconnected, AI-enabled, and globally distributed, security must operate continuously and at scale, without slowing teams down.