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One Platform, Every Environment: Trusted Partner for the Hybrid Network Security Future We are proud to share that Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall (HMF) – placing furthest for Completeness of Vision and recognized for our Ability to Execute. We believe that this recognition validates our vision for the future of network security: unified, AI-powered protection across every environment, delivered through one cloud-based management console. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall Why This Matters to Us Gartner’s definition of the hybrid mesh firewall: A hybrid mesh…

Stopping Breaches with Platform-Native Speed and Expertise With over 100,000 hours of IR casework annually, CrowdStrike combines frontline expertise with platform-native visibility to detect, investigate, and contain threats before they escalate. This integrated approach enables organizations to respond with speed and confidence, even in the most complex breach scenarios. “CrowdStrike offers a highly integrated, intelligence-driven, and cloud-native approach to cyber defense,” the IDC MarketScape states. “Its IR services are deeply embedded within the broader CrowdStrike Falcon platform, enabling rapid detection, investigation, and remediation of cyber threats across diverse environments.” By leveraging real-time telemetry from the Falcon platform, CrowdStrike accelerates investigation…

A threat group Google tracks as UNC6395 has pilfered troves of data from Salesforce corporate instances, in search of credentials that can be used to compromise those organizations’ environments. “[Google Threat Intelligence Group] observed UNC6395 targeting sensitive credentials such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) access keys (AKIA), passwords, and Snowflake-related access tokens,” the company’s incident responders shared. How did UNC6395 access Salesforce instances? Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management platform. To access the targeted organizations’ Salesforce instances, the threat actor first compromised OAuth (access) tokens associated with the Salesloft Drift, an AI-driven live chat tool integrated into the Salesloft…

Securing the Browser’s Blind Spot By Victoria Hargrove, CDM Reporter What CSide Does Most security stacks fortify servers, databases, and internal apps. CSide (Client-side Development, Inc. aka c/side) targets the place attackers increasingly exploit: the user’s browser. By inserting a lightweight control into site code, CSide creates a 24/7 client-side shield that detects and blocks malicious scripts such as formjacking and digital skimming before they siphon data. PCI DSS Dashboard: Context: Where users see the list of scripts running on their site, along with justification comments to comply with PCI DSS 4.0 requirements Why It’s Innovative Perimeters have shifted. Third-party…

Delivering AI-powered network security across on-premises, cloud and SASE to prevent the most advanced threats Check Point is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Hybrid Mesh Firewall.  Gartner recognized Check Point for ability to execute and completeness of vision We believe this recognition underscores Check Point’s ability to deliver consistent, high-performance threat prevention and unified management across on-premises, cloud, and SASE, while staying ahead of sophisticated modern threats.   DOWNLOAD COMPLETE 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Hybrid Mesh Firewall report. Hyper Connected Distributed Enterprises Face AI driven Attacks    In today’s hyperconnected world, applications and users span everywhere from data…

Dale spent over 20 years working as an enterprise defender before joining Black Hills Information Security as a penetration tester in 2020. When we look at an organization’s defensive strategy, we often see a common theme — unauthorized or excessive access to commonly abused administrative utilities.   Organizations tend to focus a significant amount of their efforts on external threats, such as phishing and ransomware, but they often overlook one of the most dangerous attack vectors on their internal networks.  Many built-in tools are essential for IT operations and troubleshooting, so naturally, permissions have to be granted in order for the…

Picture this scenario: Six months after celebrating their “zero trust transformation,” a financial services firm gets hit with a devastating breach. Attackers waltzed through a supply chain vulnerability in a third-party API, bypassing all those carefully configured identity controls . The firm ticked every checkbox and met every requirement – yet here they are, scrambling to contain customer data exposure. But wasn’t zero trust supposed to protect them? The truth is zero trust isn’t a project with a completion date and there’s no destination where you plant a flag and declare victory. It’s a continuous cycle that never stops spinning.…

A 26-year-old hacker, who breached websites in North America, Yemen, and Israel, and stole the details of millions of people has been sent to prison. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky was arrested in August 2022 by members of the National Crime Agency (NCA) in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, after he was linked to the Yemen Cyber Army hacking group through social media and email accounts. NCA investigators forensically examined Al-Mashriky’s laptop and cellphones, and found digital evidence that he had broken into the websites of – amongst others – the Yemen Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Yemen Ministry of Security Media, and Israeli Live…

ESET warns of PromptLock, the first AI-driven ransomware Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2025 ESET found PromptLock, the first AI-driven ransomware, using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b via Ollama to generate and run malicious Lua scripts. In a series of messages published on X, ESET Research announced the discovery of the first known AI-powered ransomware, named PromptLock. The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly and execute them. #ESETResearch has discovered the first known AI-powered ransomware, which we named #PromptLock. The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally…