In its 2025 State of the Underground report, Bitsight TRACE found that ransomware activity continued to escalate in 2024, with a 25% increase in unique victims listed on leak sites and a 53% increase in the number of ransomware group-operated leak sites. The report also observed a 43% increase in data breaches shared on underground forums, with nearly one in five victims based in the United States. These findings highlight a continued upward trend in cyberattack activity.

In September 2025, a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-54918) was discovered affecting Domain Controllers running LDAP or LDAPS services. This vulnerability allows attackers to elevate privileges from a standard domain user to SYSTEM level access, potentially compromising entire Active Directory environments.

We’re excited to announce that Gartner has named JFrog a ‘Visionary’ in the 2025 Magic QuadrantTM for Application Security Testing. We believe this reflects JFrog’s forward thinking strategy of integrating application security seamlessly throughout the entire software development lifecycle in ways that help organizations deliver their most secure, trusted applications without impacting developers’ productivity.

According to a new Ponemon study, weak file protections now account for several cybersecurity incidents a year for many organizations. Unsafe file-sharing practices, malicious vendor files, weak access controls, and obscured file activity are largely to blame. File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) could be the solution.

Prompt guardrails are a common first line of defense against client-level LLM application attacks, such as prompt injection and context poisoning. They’re also a critical component of a full defense-in-depth strategy for LLM security at the infrastructure, supply chain, and application level. The specific guardrails that teams implement depend highly on use case, but they are typically designed to.

As digital fraud rises across Africa, INETCO’s Eren Ramdhani explains why banks must rebuild trust through real-time, AI-driven fraud systems. Article by cybersecurity leader and INETCO’s Chief Product Officer, Eren Ramdhani Trust is the most valuable currency in today’s digital economy. For banks, it determines whether customers feel confident enough to save, invest, and transact. Yet across Africa, millions of people face daily fraud attacks that threaten that trust.