On 19 August 2025, the Arctic Wolf Cybersecurity Operations Center (cSOC) uncovered and remediated a sophisticated delivery chain: a threat actor leveraged GitHub’s repository structure together with paid placements on Google Ads to funnel users toward a malicious download hosted on a lookalike domain. By embedding a commit‑specific link in the advertisement, the attackers made the download appear to originate from an official source, effectively sidestepping typical user scrutiny.

On September 5, 2025, GitGuardian discovered GhostAction, a massive supply chain attack affecting 327 GitHub users across 817 repositories. Attackers injected malicious workflows that exfiltrated 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, and DockerHub tokens via HTTP POST requests to a remote endpoint.

August is usually a quiet month for policy change on both sides of the Atlantic. Not so this year. With follow-ups from the busy first half of the year and preparations for an intensive last quarter, bureaucrats had little chance for summer plans.

Imagine this: a single breach that exposes a few patient files, and suddenly your organization is facing multi-million dollar fines, legal scrutiny, and eroded trust from the public. Now add regulatory audits, internal investigations, and the constant stress of proving compliance at every turn. The stakes are simply too high to treat HIPAA as an afterthought.

Just because ransomware attacks have decreased doesn’t mean that the risk has disappeared. Indeed, it remains one of the most disruptive threats to any organisation. Headlines can convey a false sense of relief: Ransomware attacks are down 15%, according to Verizon's latest DBIR report. But for those of us who work in cybersecurity, we know that this doesn't tell the whole story, especially when the real issue isn't how often an attack occurs, but what happens when it does.

Many organizations struggle to address network security vulnerabilities in time. By the time vulnerabilities are discovered, attackers may already be exploiting them across your infrastructure, especially in areas where visibility is limited. That delay leaves you scrambling patches get applied too late, remediation workflows are disjointed, and attackers can move laterally or exfiltrate data before containment begins.

If your website or digital app collects, tracks, or sells data from Colorado residents, chances are the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) applies to you. Like California’s CCPA and Virginia’s VCDPA, the CPA is part of the growing patchwork of state-level privacy laws reshaping how U.S. businesses handle personal data. Yet many companies underestimate the scope of the Colorado Privacy Act—or assume compliance is covered by PCI DSS or HIPAA if they process payments or healthcare data.