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A sophisticated cyberattack is exploiting the high-pressure environment of hotel front desks, turning the very tools designed for system maintenance into weapons for data theft and demonstrating a dangerous evolution in threats against the hospitality industry. This new campaign, tracked as

The very systems designed to be an organization's ultimate fail-safe against catastrophic data loss have increasingly become a primary target for sophisticated cyberattacks. Veeam, a dominant force in the data protection market, has released critical security updates for its Backup & Replication

The activities of entrepreneurs and startups in 2025, especially in their development and application of artificial intelligence, serve as a crucial barometer for the future trajectory of the entire cybersecurity landscape. The common thread weaving through all the most disruptive industry trends

A security provider's reputation is its most valuable asset, and a public claim of a breach—even an unverified one—can send shockwaves through the community it was built to protect. Leading VPN service NordVPN recently confronted allegations from a threat actor who claimed to have infiltrated one

A convergence of local controversies that have simmered for months in Lewiston, Maine, has now erupted into a full-scale federal investigation, drawing a clear line from city hall to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and signaling a dramatic escalation in scrutiny. What began as whispers of

A significant and coordinated cyber campaign has recently escalated, with threat actors launching a massive wave of login attempts and scanning activities against the widely used VPN solutions from Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall. The offensive, which began in early December, originated from over

In the world of high-stakes cybersecurity, few targets are as prestigious as a national space agency. When threat actors claim to have exfiltrated 200 GB of sensitive data from the European Space Agency, it sends ripples through the industry. To unpack the nuances of this latest incident, we sat

In a move that sent ripples through the international human rights and cybersecurity communities, the United States has quietly removed sanctions from key figures behind one of the world's most notorious commercial surveillance tools. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's decision to lift penalties

In a year marked by unprecedented cyber assaults on the UK's retail sector, we sit down with Rupert Marais, our in-house security specialist, to dissect the wave of attacks linked to the Scattered Spider hacking group. With expertise in cybersecurity strategies and network management, Rupert offers

In the wake of a staggering data breach at insurance giant Aflac, we sat down with our in-house security specialist, Rupert Marais, to dissect the incident that exposed the personal and medical information of over 22 million people. With deep expertise in endpoint security and cyber strategy,