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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Throughout 2024, China-nexus adversaries demonstrated increasingly bold targeting, stealthier tactics, and more specialized operations, CrowdStrike stated in its 2025 Global Threat Report. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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8 major IT disasters of 2024

CIO

The outage was still causing hundreds of flight cancellations and other problems 24 hours after initial reports. Then in June, AT&T customers reported another service outage. Reports of service outages began to spike at 1 p.m. The admission came after YouTuber The Net Guy found malware on Acemagic mini PCs when testing them.

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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO

A report by Verizon found that 85% of all data breaches occur due to social engineering and system intrusions caused by basic human errors. In the past few months, infostealer malware has gained ground. Both the software and its data are sold on the dark web in the form of Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS).

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AI in the Enterprise: 5 key findings of AI usage and threat trends

CIO

The just-released ThreatLabz 2025 AI Security Report examines the intersection of enterprise AI usage and security, drawing insights from 536.5 The report reveals how enterprises worldwide and across industries are using and managing AI/ML tools, highlighting both their benefits and security concerns.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Throughout 2024, China-nexus adversaries demonstrated increasingly bold targeting, stealthier tactics, and more specialized operations, CrowdStrike stated in its 2025 Global Threat Report. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware

The Parallax

During a month that’s seen Android malware new and old plague the world’s most popular mobile operating system, Google says its Play Store is becoming more civilized and less like the Wild West. You have a lower probability of being infected by malware from Play than being hit by lightning,” Ahn says. READ MORE ON ANDROID SECURITY.

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GenAI in Cybersecurity — Threats and Defenses

Palo Alto Networks

In the Unit 42 Threat Frontier: Prepare for Emerging AI Risks report, we aim to strengthen your grasp of how generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape. This report will help you grasp how attackers use GenAI and how to defend against these evolving threats.

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