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Happy Valentines Day! While many today will celebrate the love in their lives, we wanted to take a moment to focus on ways you can prevent heartbreak within your organization. As businesses continue to evolve across the IT landscape, the cybersecurity threats continue to grow as well – whether from human error or bad actors outside of your organization, it is crucial to eliminate gaps that leave your organization vulnerable.

Discover how honeytokens enhance security by detecting breaches in real-time across the software development lifecycle. Learn how to deploy these decoy credentials and traps effectively, bolstering defenses against cyber threats.

Modern software development requires a seamless connection between multiple software development tools – particularly those used for code management and storing your software artifacts. Connecting between these tools often involves managing a variety of tokens, permissions, passwords, and keys, which if not handled correctly can expose organizations to potential security threats.

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), recently shared its findings on how AI might reshape the cyber landscape. In two separate posts, the NCSC is warning that the global ransomware threat is expected to rise with AI. It appears that while AI beckons with one hand, it wields a knife in the other. On one side, we have AI's potential to supercharge economic growth, scientific breakthroughs, and societal benefits. On the flip side lurks the specter of security risks posed by AI's misuse.

Analysis of this newly-spotted service makes it clear that the newest entrant into the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) space has taken note of where predecessors are lacking and launched a better product. Given the financial and operational disruption ransomware has caused since last year, any headline about a new RaaS will surely lead to anxiety and grimace for IT and security professionals.

Valentine's Day. A time where love is in the air, florists work overtime, and restaurant tables are as scarce as a truthful politician. But as we're busy swiping right in hopes of finding that special someone, cybercriminals are swiping left...on your security. Heartbreak hits differently when it's your bank account that's been ghosted.

For years Netacea has been reporting on the evolving scalper bot landscape. From the early days of sneaker bots, through to hobbyists snatching PlayStation 5 consoles and even vaccine appointments throughout the pandemic, we’ve closely monitored what items scalpers target. Now, a whole new breed of scalper bot has emerged – one that exploits discounts and pricing errors instead of exclusive hype drops, costing retailers hundreds of thousands in lost inventory.

Raspberry Robin malware exploits vulnerabilities, hackers use news and media hosting sites to spread USB malware payloads, and Palo Alto reports a 49% increase in ransomware victims.

A recent report from Mozilla found that the recent explosion of romantic AI chatbots is creating a whole new world of privacy concerns.

Adding AI to your software development life cycle (SDLC) comes with great opportunities — and great dangers. Is the risk worth the reward? This was the topic of conversation when Sascha Wiswedel, Senior Solutions Engineer at Atlassian, and Simon Maple, Principal Developer Advocate at Snyk, teamed up to discuss security in the (AI-assisted) software development lifecycle.