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As software development accelerates, cyberattacks are also growing more sophisticated. The result? Traditional security methods are often rendered ineffective. With reactive strategies and stretched resources, application security (AppSec) teams are under increasing pressure to secure apps without sacrificing speed and innovation. Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become the frontrunner solution, automating labor-intensive tasks, improving accuracy, and enabling proactive security measures.

Ever thought an image file could be part of a cyber threat? The Trustwave SpiderLabs Email Security team has identified a major spike in SVG image-based attacks, where harmless-looking graphics are being used to hide dangerous links. This blog post analyzes the various techniques cybercriminals are using to cleverly weaponize these image files in phishing attacks and what your organization can do to prevent these pixel-perfect tricks.

Active Directory (AD) officially reaches its quarter-century this year, after its late-1990s preview and full release with Windows Server 2000. That’s over 25 years of providing administrators with tools to manage permissions, endpoints and access for network-based resources and objects. In that time, it’s grown to become the choice of around 90% of the Global Fortune 1000s.

In a recent social-engineering attack targeting the hospitality sector observed by the ThreatSpike team, there appears to be a change in the tactics employed by the threat actor. The hospitality sector, where top-notch customer-service is expected, customer-facing employees are often lucrative targets for phishing, as detailed in our previous blog post.