Avast advises how to spot fake e-shops, recognize new methods scammers use, and remain safe this holiday season. Holiday shopping is in full swing, and so is the hunt for great deals. As online shopping becomes the default for many, a shadowy industry of fake e-shops is growing right alongside it. The holiday season is the perfect time for scammers. People are hurried, stressed and busy getting the best gifts for their loved ones, which makes it harder to stay alert.

Every day, professionals and knowledge workers lose hours digging through files, reports, and systems. The information is out there, but it’s buried. Instead of shaping strategy, people get stuck chasing down data. Even with strong IT, time spent searching has only grown since 2002, now averaging 1.8 hours a day, according to a McKinsey study. Think about it: They all need clarity fast. But, what they get is fragments spread across disconnected sources and hours of searching.

For twenty years, a stolen private key was a disaster. It meant total compromise. Every encrypted conversation, password transmitted, API call ever made was readable. Traffic was being recorded all the time, “just in case” your private key leaked out. The NSA even had a name for it: “harvest now, decrypt later.” Record all the encrypted traffic today. Steal the private keys tomorrow. Decrypt everything retroactively.

CrowdStrike is introducing two powerful innovations in CrowdStrike Falcon Shield to stop identity-based attacks in the AI era: a centralized view of AI agents across platforms and the integration of first-party SaaS telemetry into CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM — the industry’s first native integration of SaaS security posture management (SSPM) and next-gen SIEM.

As we look back at 2025 and onward, there are five cyber threats that stand out as the most pressing for small businesses. No single solution eliminates cyber risk. The most effective strategy for small businesses is to combine multiple layers of defense. Endpoint security, email filtering, secure backups, and continuous education together create a much stronger posture than any one tool can provide on its own.

In this article, we’ll break down the three most prevalent runtime threat vectors behind most modern cloud breaches – and why traditional cloud security tools fail to detect them. Let’s get one thing clear: the cloud itself hasn’t become more dangerous – but cloud-native architectures fundamentally changed the threat landscape. In the datacenter era, most threats targeted hosts, networks, and endpoints.

When UNECE WP.29 came into force, it transformed the global automotive industry. For the first time, cybersecurity became a mandatory requirement for modern vehicles — not a marketing feature, not a technical add-on, but a regulated obligation. WP.29 forced manufacturers to rethink how vehicles were designed, updated and secured, requiring formal Cybersecurity Management Systems (CSMS) and Software Update Management Systems (SUMS) across the entire vehicle lifecycle.