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Echoes in the Shell: Legacy Tooling Behind Ongoing SharePoint 'ToolShell' Exploitation

The Trustwave SpiderLabs CTI team began correlating telemetry from multiple enterprise environments in response to a rapidly developing threat landscape involving the widespread exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint on-premises infrastructure. In this blog, we share key findings from several observed intrusions across our monitored environments.

Simplify NYDFS 500.7 Compliance With KeeperPAM

Organizations regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) must adhere to 23 NYCRR Part 500, a cybersecurity regulation designed to protect sensitive consumer data and financial systems. Among its core requirements, Section 500.7 specifically focuses on access privileges, requiring financial services companies to implement controls that limit access to nonpublic information based on the principle of least privilege.

Why Legacy Penetration Testing Is Dead Between the Audits: How Lean Security Teams Can Finally Get Ahead

For decades, penetration testing has been the gold seal of cybersecurity. Auditors love them. Insurance brokers demand them. Your board sees them and believes the “secure” box for your company has been sufficiently checked. And to be clear: manual pen tests have an important place. For compliance mandates, regulatory filings, or mission-critical systems, there’s no substitute for a skilled third-party team that probes your environment.

You Snooze You Lose: RPC-Racer Winning RPC Endpoints Against Services

The remote procedure call (RPC) protocol is one of the building blocks of Microsoft Windows and is widely used for inter-process communication between clients and servers. When RPC clients search for a server based only on a universally unique identifier (UUID) of an interface—without specifying an endpoint—they will go through the Endpoint Mapper (EPM). It will connect them to an endpoint that a server registered, exposing the interface the clients are looking for.

The final CMMC rule is here-enforcement starts November 10

After years of drafts, revisions, and shifting timelines, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program is no longer just a concept. It's a contractual requirement, and enforcement begins soon. ‍ On September 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released the final CMMC rule (48 CFR) for public inspection, with official publication in the Federal Register on September 10. From this point forward, all DoD contracts require some level of CMMC certification. ‍

Understanding the Growth, Drivers, and Benefits of Managed Detection and Response

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services are experiencing significant growth due to the increasing sophistication and frequency of cyberthreats. As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve with more frequent, targeted, and sophisticated threats, organizations are increasingly turning to MDR to shore up their cyber defenses. But what exactly is behind the rising adoption of MDR security services, and what makes these services such a compelling option for modern enterprises?

Security-Conscious AI Software Development with Windsurf x Aikido

Modern development teams do far more than simply write code. Now, with the help of AI, software development organizations are orchestrating its creation, maintenance, and delivery at a bigger scale than ever before. Tools like Windsurf and Devin from Cognition help developers across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) by augmenting people with multi-step reasoning agents that can write code.

Inside the Architecture of a Deep Research Agent

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to solution for grounding language models in factual data. It has been effective for question-answering, but for complex, exploratory tasks that demand vast data analysis and culminate in a structured narrative, we must look beyond simple RAG. This isn’t just a theoretical challenge, it's the next step in our own product journey: This progression now culminates in a more advanced capability.