From Blame Culture to Reasonable Challenge in 2025

The 2025 review highlights how blame culture still drives incident hiding in cybersecurity, even as risk grows. A simple “reasonable challenge” guide, with set phrases for raising and receiving concerns, offers a practical way in 2025 to support psychological safety, early reporting and better security governance.

Streamline Security Operations with Falcon for IT's Turnkey Automations

As IT environments grow more complex and adversaries move faster, security and IT teams need a reliable way to enforce configurations, maintain application health, and resolve issues at scale without writing or maintaining custom scripts. CrowdStrike Falcon for IT already gives operators powerful tools to query endpoints, run remediation, and enforce baseline configurations.

From Compliance to Cyber Resilience: The Real-World Benefits of DLP

For many organizations, data loss prevention (DLP) has historically been viewed through the narrow lens of compliance. Regulations like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR forced companies to prove they had controls in place to protect sensitive information. DLP was the obvious answer—a way to prevent credit card numbers, Social Security information, or personal health data from leaving the organization in unauthorized ways. In that framing, DLP was deployed to satisfy audits, not reduce risk.

Zestix Threat Actor Profile | TTPs, Victims, and Breach Activity

Zestix is identified as a criminal threat actor primarily motivated by personal gain. The actor first emerged in September 2025 and operates at an intermediate resource level, functioning as an individual. Zestix has been involved in significant data breaches, notably targeting organizations in the transportation and government sectors.

MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847): Critical Unauthenticated MongoDB Memory Disclosure

A critical vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-14847 (dubbed “MongoBleed“) affects MongoDB Server instances, exposing systems to unauthenticated information disclosure. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to read sensitive data from the server’s memory without requiring authentication.

CoPilotLeaks: A Look at the Threat Actor's TTPs, History and More

CopilotLeaks is a criminal threat actor group known for its data breaches and leaks targeting various sectors in Bolivia and Paraguay. The group operates under multiple aliases, including Megumi, vulnerandolo, and Johan_Liebheart. Their primary motivation is personal gain, and they are characterized as having an intermediate level of sophistication.

Security Alert: CVE-2025-14847 MongoDB "MongoBleed" Actively Exploited

A high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2025-14847, affecting MongoDB Server is being actively exploited in the wild with a Bitsight Dynamic Vulnerability Exploit (DVE) score of 9.71. The flaw, commonly referred to as “MongoBleed,” is an unauthenticated memory-read vulnerability caused by improper handling of zlib-compressed network message headers, which may allow attackers to read uninitialized heap memory remotely.

The Critical Role of Organizational Change Management in Implementing NIST CSF 2.0

Executive Summary NIST CSF 2.0 defines what must be achieved; Organizational Change Management (OCM) determines whether it becomes real. Security programs stall not because the framework is unclear, but because leadership behavior, ownership, and workforce adoption weren’t designed and measured from the start.

What You Need to Know about the Aflac Data Breach

The American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac) is a Fortune 500 company that provides financial protection through supplemental life and health insurance products to millions of individuals worldwide. Founded in 1955, the company serves policyholders and customers through its subsidiaries in the United States and Japan.