Enterprise DDoS attacks reached critical levels in 2025, with authoritative reports documenting unprecedented attack volumes and sophistication. Global cybercrime costs are projected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, representing the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history. Selecting the wrong cloud DDoS protection creates operational disruption, compliance violations, and irreversible business damage.

Almost every AEC professional interacts with construction specifications from estimating to closeout, but that doesn’t mean it's easy. Locked in hard-to-use PDFs, specification documents are often a time-consuming obstacle. Egnyte’s Specifications Analyst, part of the new Project Hub, eases the pain with an intuitive interface built specifically for how AEC teams work.

A new report has found that nearly 40% of security leaders believe their organizations are least prepared for phishing and other social engineering attacks, Help Net Security reports. According to the report from VikingCloud, these concerns are driven by the increasing use of AI tools to assist in cyberattacks. “Generative or agentic AI-driven phishing attacks (51%) are leadership teams’ top concern when it comes to new cyberattack techniques,” the report says.

The DFIR Report recently detailed a LockBit attack with ransomware intrusion that succeeded without advanced exploits or zero-day vulnerabilities. The attack relied on a stolen AnyDesk installer, credential reuse, and renamed PowerShell scripts that blended into routine activity. These moves were not sophisticated, but they were fast and effective. The end result: complete domain encryption.

On October 4, 2025, Oracle released a fix for a newly disclosed critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-61882, linked to recent extortion emails received by some Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) customers. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote threat actors to achieve remote code execution and resides in the BI Publisher component of Oracle Concurrent Processing.