Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

A technical analysis of deception technology’s role in modern cybersecurity frameworks.

Cyber threats aren’t always about complex code or advanced hacking tools. Often, they start with a simple trick—convincing someone to click a link, share a password, or let someone into a secure area. This tactic is called social engineering. Social engineering is when attackers trick people into breaking security rules. Instead of hacking systems, they use lies, pressure, or fake trust to get what they want. These attacks work well because they target human emotions, not technology.

The LockBit ransomware group's dark web infrastructure has suffered a major blow following a significant breach on May 7, 2025. This cyberattack targeted LockBit's onion-based infrastructure—including their affiliate and admin panels—and resulted in the complete defacement of the sites. The attackers left behind a taunting message: "Don't do crime, CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague," along with a link to a leaked MySQL database dump.

As organizations support an increasingly mobile workforce, the challenge of securing access to corporate resources from personal and company-owned devices, across various locations, networks, and use cases, has grown more complex. According to Verizon's 2024 Mobile Security Index, 53% of organizations experienced a security incident involving a mobile or IoT device that resulted in data loss or downtime, highlighting the escalating risks associated with mobile endpoints.

‍ ‍All data breaches are considered cyber attacks, but not all cyber attacks are breaches. A data breach is a unique type of cyber incident that specifically involves unauthorized access to sensitive and confidential information pertaining to customer data, corporate data, or both. DDoS attacks and business outages, for instance, are not categorized as breaches because an external actor has not compromised internal assets.

In 2024, we collected 2.9 billion unique sets of compromised credentials—a jump from the 2.2 billion collected in 2023. While this rise can be explained by advancement in Bitsight’s credential collection capabilities, we assess that the precise number of credentials shared on the underground has also risen, fueled by increased data breaches and the spike in stealer logs.

Scaling IT operations was never going to be easy. By 2025, it was fair to expect that technology would ease classic challenges like high workloads, rising operational costs, and end-user friction. Yet IT leaders still face mounting pressure across identity and access management (IAM), endpoint management, request fulfillment, and incident response. Today’s end users are more demanding. IT operations are more complex. And time is in short supply.

If you are a part of the DevOps community, you may have heard of DORA metrics. These were introduced to allow organizations to track and measure performance, so that they can further improve their software delivery life cycles. Over the years, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team proposed four metrics to drive the performance of SDLCs: These four key metrics shall never be disregarded. Remember – DORA metrics measure information regarding your development and operations processes.