The State of Ransomware in Financial Services 2025

369 IT and cybersecurity leaders reveal the ransomware realities for financial services providers today. The report examines how the causes and consequences of ransomware attacks on financial services providers have evolved over time. This year's edition also sheds light on previously unexplored areas, including the organizational factors that left providers exposed and the human toll ransomware takes on IT and cybersecurity teams in the financial services sector.

Navigating cybersecurity with an effective SOC

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are essential for detecting and responding to cyber threats, but building the right model isn't one-size-fits-all. With talent shortages and rising threat complexity, many organizations are rethinking how to scale security operations. This guide breaks down the pros, cons, and trade-offs of in-house, hybrid, and outsourced SOC models. Find the SOC strategy that fits your needs, risk profile, and available resources.

The Acronis Cyber Frame Early Access Program has just started: Deliver IaaS on your own terms

Service providers are entering a major infrastructure transition period. The global IaaS market is about $170 billion and growing at roughly 22% year over year. At the same time, VMware disruption is pushing 50%–75% of customers to evaluate alternatives, more than $30 billion of infrastructure spend is already flowing outside the major hyperscalers and sovereign Cloud demand is rising fast.

AI Workload Security on Azure: Evaluating Defender for Cloud Against Specialized Runtime Tools

Your SOC gets a Defender for Cloud alert: “Suspicious API call from AI workload pod.” You click through and find a LIST secrets call against the Kubernetes API server from a pod running your invoice-processing agent on AKS. The pod’s Workload Identity has Contributor access to your key vault. By the time your analyst opens the AKS Security Dashboard, the pod has been rescheduled.

Planning a spring break trip? Don't fall for these 7 travel scams

Don't let fraud ruin your trip. Discover 7 common spring break scams and learn how to protect yourself with these expert travel tips. Spring break scams are out to ruin your vacation, but they don't have to. With a little awareness and Avast Free Antivirus protecting your devices, you can hit the beach without handing criminals an opening. Spring break is supposed to be about poolside playlists and late-night tacos, not calling your bank from a hotel lobby because your card’s been maxed out.

AI Agent Security Framework on AWS EKS: Implementation Guide

You’ve enabled GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring across your clusters. You’ve configured IRSA for your Bedrock-calling agents. CloudTrail is logging every bedrock:InvokeModel event. And last Tuesday, one of your AI agents exfiltrated 12,000 customer records through a sequence of API calls that every one of those tools recorded as completely normal—because at the control plane level, they were.

Understanding AI Compliance When Choosing AI-Enabled Solutions

2001: A Space Odyssey introduced the world to HAL 9000, the fictional artificial intelligence (AI). HAL’s capabilities include everything from facial recognition to natural language processing and automated reasoning. As HAL malfunctions over time, the computer becomes violent to prevent the humans from disconnecting it. The story serves as a morality tale suggesting that without human oversight, AI is dangerous.

From Shai-Hulud to LiteLLM: Supply Chain Attackers Are Coming for Your Agents

The LiteLLM supply chain compromise of March 24, 2026, is not an isolated incident. It is the latest and perhaps most dangerous chapter in an evolving attacker playbook that JFrog Security Research has been tracking for years. The target has shifted from developers to the AI agents that developers now rely on to build software.

AI Adoption Surging in Financial Services - But Control Lagging

Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into everyday use across financial services. From client servicing and research to operations and risk analysis, AI is increasingly embedded in core workflows. This shift is widely recognised within the industry. Recent research indicates that 67% of financial services organisations report rapid AI adoption, with 93% ranking AI as a top security priority heading into 2026. At the same time, governance structures are being established.