Across today’s threat landscape, the divide between cybercrime and cyberwarfare is disappearing. Financially motivated groups and state-sponsored actors rely on the same tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)—exploiting zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities, abusing ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platforms, hiding behind proxies, and living off the land (LotL) within legitimate IT environments. They also often target the same enterprises.

Kroll Threat Intelligence is tracking a second wave of ‘Shai-Hulud’ NPM compromises, named as ‘Sha1-Hulud’ (based on the GitHub action name created as well as the public repository description it creates to publish credentials).

The fireside chat with Crocs CISO Lena Taylor at our Denver event brought together cybersecurity professionals, allies, and leaders for an evening of honest insight and community. From redefining work-life balance to knowing when to pursue new opportunities, Lena shared grounded, real-world wisdom that resonated far beyond career advice. Here’s a look at the biggest takeaways from the discussion and why the night left such a lasting impression.

Definition: Patch management is the continuous lifecycle of identifying, acquiring, testing, and deploying code updates to endpoints, servers, and applications to resolve security vulnerabilities and improve stability. The 5-Step Process.

On November 24, 2025, researchers identified a renewed supply-chain attack linked to Shai-Hulud malware, revealing that numerous npm packages had been quietly trojanized following the initial wave of malicious activity in September. This second iteration involved compromised versions of popular packages uploaded between November 21, 2025, and November 23, 2025, with additional compromised packages continuing to surface at the time of writing.

Following the Jaguar-Land Rover disaster, another cyberattack has shaken a major industry. The danger of attacks on the supply chain has never been clearer. The issue now revolves around what organizations can do to protect themselves and their supply chain partners. Wall Street spent a tense weekend in late November 2025 when news broke that SitusAMC, a major technology vendor serving hundreds of real estate lenders across the United States, had suffered a significant cyberattack.

Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are identities used by machines, applications and automated processes. They rely on credentials — such as API keys, tokens, or certificates — to authenticate and access systems, services and data. The exponential growth of NHIs in modern IT infrastructure makes securing them an operational necessity. NHIs are gradually outnumbering human users in most enterprise environments, and without proper oversight, they can introduce many security vulnerabilities.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has supercharged social engineering. Global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company reported a 1,200% global surge in phishing attacks since the rise of generative AI in the latter half of 2022. And it’s not just the number of attacks that’s climbing; it’s also the success rate. Arctic Wolf’s Human Risk Behavior Snapshot: 2nd Edition reveals that nearly two-thirds of IT and security leaders self-reported falling for a phishing attempt.

Every few months, a new compliance mandate makes its way into security teams' inboxes — something about data residency, audit readiness, or regulatory proof of control. In one such instance, a banking customer met with their IT and security leads to review reports before an audit. Their AppSec program was cloud-based, efficient, and scalable. Yet, the compliance officer had one clear instruction: “We need complete control.