Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In 2026, an antivirus solution may seem old-fashioned at first glance, like something from the era of floppy disks and dial-up. But that thought couldn’t be further from the truth. Today’s threats to your home network have evolved beyond classic malware.

Last week, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group announced the disruption of IPIDEA, one of the largest and most abused residential proxy networks observed in the wild. IPIDEA quietly turned millions of consumer devices into proxy exit nodes, enabling cybercrime, espionage, and botnet activity—while putting users and enterprises at risk. At Lookout, we acted immediately.

In the legal profession, trust has always been the foundation of the client-firm relationship. Today, that trust is no longer granted by default; it must be continuously earned and, more importantly, proven. For law firms across the UK, cyber resilience has evolved from a back-office IT issue into a critical component of client due diligence. Clients do not just expect you to protect their data—they require you to demonstrate your capability to do so under any circumstance.

Conduent, Inc. is a major business process services company headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from Xerox Corporation, the company provides technology-enabled business solutions to government agencies and Fortune 100 companies across 22 countries.

Substack is a popular subscription-based digital publishing platform that allows writers, journalists, podcasters, and content creators to send newsletters directly to their subscribers while monetizing their work. Founded in 2017, the San Francisco-based company has grown significantly, becoming a major alternative to traditional media and offering independent creators a way to build direct relationships with their audiences.

SoundCloud is one of the world's largest audio streaming and music distribution platforms, founded in Berlin, Germany in 2007 and headquartered in New York City. The platform has grown into an artist-first service hosting more than 400 million tracks from over 40 million creators worldwide. With approximately 175 million registered users globally, SoundCloud serves as a critical platform for independent musicians, podcasters, and audio creators to share their work directly with audiences.

Chat & Ask AI is a popular mobile application developed by Codeway, a Turkish technology company founded in Istanbul in 2020. With more than 50 million downloads across Google Play Store and Apple App Store, Chat & Ask AI has become one of the most popular AI chat applications in the world. The app functions as a wrapper service, providing a mobile gateway to large language models from major technology companies.

Maybe you’re an AI builder, or maybe you’re a CISO. You've just authorized the use of AI agents for your dev team. You know the risks, including data exfiltration, prompt injection, and unvetted code execution. So when your lead engineer comes to you and says, "Don't worry, we're using Skill Defender from ClawHub to scan every new Skill," you breathe a sigh of relief. You checked the box. But have you checked this Skills scanner?

Most SOC teams don’t struggle with what they need to automate — they struggle with where to start. Between complex playbooks, brittle integrations, and the fear of breaking something in production, security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) often feels harder to adopt than it should be.

Dark web marketplaces continue to fuel cybercrime in 2026. This blog explores emerging trends, what threat actors are trading, and why dark web monitoring is essential for organisations.