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As billions of connected devices come online across industries and various sectors such as smart cities, consumer electronics, and healthcare, organisations face increasing pressure to comply with global IoT security regulations. Cyber threats are no longer isolated incidents; they are systemic risks that can disrupt healthcare, transportation, energy, and manufacturing.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is expanding rapidly, connecting billions of devices across industries. While this connectivity drives efficiency and innovation, it also introduces massive cyber risks. The IoT ecosystem is an interconnected environment of devices, systems, and technologies, making security especially complex. Attackers are increasingly using automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to launch sophisticated attacks at scale.

Mobile app security can’t afford surface-level assessments. To truly verify how apps handle compromise, security teams must venture deeper, and in the iOS world, that means jailbreaking. Jailbreaking an iOS device grants pentesters the access required to uncover weaknesses otherwise invisible under Apple's sandboxing model. By removing Apple’s built-in restrictions, testers gain deeper access to system files, APIs, and hidden behaviors that standard tools can’t expose.

The most dangerous attackers don’t break in—they walk through your front door with stolen credentials. Traditional security infrastructure faces a fundamental challenge: advanced persistent threats remain undetected for an average of 287 days, operating within legitimate access boundaries while signature-based defenses remain blind to their activities. When attackers steal credentials or insiders go rogue, they appear as authorized users to existing security infrastructure.

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On September 15, a new supply chain attack was identified that targeted the @ctrl/tinycolor and 150 other NPM packages. The attack scenario was similar to the one used in the s1ngularity and GhostActions campaigns. The threat actors combined a local environment secrets extraction with a malicious GitHub actions workflow injection in accessible projects. The compromised packages' structure has been detailed in blog posts by socket.dev and StepSecurity.

Security leaders are well acquainted with Shadow IT; the unsanctioned apps, services, and even devices employees adopt to bypass bureaucracy and accelerate productivity. Think rogue cloud storage, messaging platforms, or unapproved SaaS tools. These all often slip past governance until they trigger a breach, compliance issue, or operational failure. Now, a more complex threat is emerging - Shadow AI.

In this article Change is no longer the exception; it’s the baseline. As we move into 2025, regulatory compliance is morphing faster than many organizations anticipated. New laws, shifting political priorities, disruptive technologies such as AI and IoT, and rising expectations from stakeholders are all combining to reshape what compliance looks like.

On September 11, a message appeared on BreachForumshn that seemed to mark the end of an era.