Many organizations across critical industries such as healthcare, manufacturing and energy rely on legacy Windows operating systems to run essential equipment. These systems, while operationally vital, are notoriously difficult and costly to upgrade — leaving them vulnerable to modern cyber threats. CrowdStrike is addressing this challenge by expanding our legacy support with the general availability of CrowdStrike Falcon for Legacy Systems.

Insider threats are among the most elusive and damaging forms of cybersecurity risk. According to the Ponemon Institute, 71% of organizations experienced between 21 and 41 insider incidents in 2023, up 67% over the previous year. The average annual cost of insider threats also climbed to $16.2 million per organization, the report found.

Popularly known as text messages, SMS messages are one of the widely used communication channels by Americans. They are generally used for various purposes. For instance, besides being a channel of communication among individuals, several millions of Americans rely on SMS systems to access and secure their social media, email, and online banking accounts, particularly through OTPs (one-time-passcodes), which are typically delivered via SMS.

Cloud security has reached an inflection point. Organizations have accelerated their cloud adoption and must navigate a complex threat landscape where workloads spin up and down in seconds, applications deploy continuously and identities span multiple services and providers.

On January 9, the SecurityScorecard STRIKE team uncovered Operation 99, a cyberattack by the Lazarus Group, North Korea’s state-sponsored hacking unit. This campaign targets software developers looking for freelance Web3 and cryptocurrency work. If you thought fake job offers from the group’s Operation Dream Job campaign were bad, this latest move is a masterclass in deception, sophistication, and malicious intent. Here’s why Operation 99 demands your attention.

Recently, the security team at LEAKD.COM discovered that about 5 million United States credit cards and users’ personal details had been leaked online. This discovery came about when the security team found 5 terabytes of sensitive data exposed on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, a cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services that is used to store customer information. According to the security team at LEAKD.COM, the party responsible for this credit card leak/breach remains unknown.

Established in 1920, Scholastic is an American-based multinational and the largest publisher and distributor of children’s books globally. The company’s global headquarters is in New York City. It offers digital and print resources to support learning for pre-kindergarten to grade 12 students. Some of the corporation’s popular children's book series are Clifford the Big Red Dog, Harry Potter, Goosebumps, SPY, Animorphs, and Hunger Games.

The latest ENISA reports help inform about threat response and a more effective, risk-based approach to cybersecurity In December 2024, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) released its first-ever report on the state of cybersecurity in the Union. The report, which was prepared in accordance with Article 18 of the NIS2 Directive, is a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of the cybersecurity ecosystem across EU Member States.

As Kubernetes becomes the backbone of modern cloud native applications, organizations increasingly seek to consolidate workloads and resources by running multiple tenants within the same Kubernetes infrastructure. These tenants could be: While multitenancy offers cost efficiency and centralized management, it also introduces security and operational challenges: To address these concerns, practitioners have three primary options for deploying multiple tenants securely on Kubernetes.