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Wiz’s briefing explains security risks in Model Context Protocol (MCP), including unvetted local servers, remote-server abuse, and unsafe client auto-run, and recommends auditing, least privilege, sandboxing, and stronger governance.
Huntress argues that application allowlisting and endpoint zero-trust controls cannot stop every attack, citing abuse of trusted tools and activity that does not require malware execution. It recommends pairing prevention with detection and response.
Telegram’s channel bans and less effective search make cybercrime channels harder for investigators to find and track, according to the article. Channels may reappear under new names, delaying access to intelligence while Telegram continues its safety efforts.
The article argues that static data labels can miss human-driven data loss, and describes Darktrace’s behavioral AI approach to detecting risky data movement across email and other tools.
Huntress explains how attackers use stolen credentials, session tokens and rogue apps to move between endpoints and identities, illustrating the risks with three cases and arguing for combined endpoint and identity monitoring.
Huntress describes using ClickHouse to aggregate observability data from millions of endpoints, helping monitor EDR agent health and stability and identify conditions that could affect availability.
Dark-web travel offers may rely on stolen payment details, compromised travel accounts, insider manipulation or fake reservations. Buyers risk canceled bookings, lost money, legal consequences and exposure to cybercrime.
CloudSEK describes how phishers use geofencing, user-agent and referrer checks, URL parameters, and embedded credentials to hide phishing pages from scanners, and how its XVigil FDF module tests for these techniques.
DarkOwl profiles B1ack’s Stash, a carding marketplace that advertised across dark web forums and claimed to release millions of payment card details for free, including a claimed 4 million-card dump in February 2025.
A DarkOwl webinar transcript outlines OSINT uses for dark-web data, including tracking stolen credentials, monitoring threats, assessing exposure, and investigating threat actors. The speaker cautions that marketplace claims and other findings require verification.
Devices may broadcast saved Wi-Fi networks and MAC-address information, allowing nearby observers to map access points and potentially infer a person’s locations and routines. The article demonstrates this with AiroDump-ng, AirGraph-ng, and Wigle[.]net.
An explainer describes zero-day risks through examples including WannaCry, Stuxnet and Predator spyware, and discusses bug bounty programs, zero-day brokers, software updates and other ways to reduce exposure.
Huntress says its SOC averages eight minutes from alert receipt to an incident report or closure, attributing the speed to purpose-built tools, an integrated tech stack, human analysts assisted by AI, and 24/7 coverage.
A webinar discussion offers CISOs five questions to structure board conversations around critical assets, their locations, security controls, vulnerability risk, and readiness for incidents.
Huntress argues security awareness training works best when frequent, threat-relevant and supportive, recommending realistic phishing simulations and constructive follow-up. The post also promotes Huntress’ managed training service.
Talos describes scams targeting online sellers, including fake payout verification messages, off-platform payment requests, and shipping-change schemes, and advises sellers to use MFA, verify messages, and keep transactions on-platform.
Drawing on interviews with security leaders, Team Cymru’s David Monnier outlines 10 expectations for 2025, including zero-trust adoption, automated security operations, AI-assisted detection, more quantitative cyber-risk management, and ransomware multi-extortion.
A webinar discusses how exposed executive data, stolen credentials, impersonation and online threats can put people and organizations at risk, and outlines monitoring, training, password and privacy practices to reduce exposure.
Splunk strategist David Bianco says threat hunting and red teaming serve complementary roles, and recommends collaborative teams with varied skills and starting with a framework such as PEAK. The article also promotes Team Cymru’s Splunk app.
DarkOwl describes how fraudsters discuss finding romance-scam targets, sell related data and services, and share e-whoring guides and tools on underground platforms. It also offers FBI-recommended steps to avoid romance scams.
A webinar demonstrates how analysts combined dark- and deep-web data, social media, and link analysis to investigate suspected Russian influence-operation front companies and identify possible connections among people and organizations.
Darktrace describes how its email and identity tools detected or disrupted three customer threats: an adversary-in-the-middle phishing attack, TA577 activity seeking NTLM hashes, and phishing that deployed the WarmCookie backdoor.
Google’s James Brodsky recommends securing AI end to end—from infrastructure and data pipelines to model behavior—and highlights access controls, DLP, monitoring, threat-intelligence partnerships and ongoing staff learning.
Wiz’s container security AMA recap recommends scanning images before deployment, enforcing trusted-image controls, and securing Kubernetes permissions, runtime, control planes, and tenant isolation. It also discusses risks to AI workloads and cloud visibility.
