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The Holiday Shopping Rush Is Exactly What Cybercriminals Are Counting On

The Holiday Shopping Rush Is Exactly What Cybercriminals Are Counting On

McAfee research documents what security professionals observe every year with increasing sophistication: the conditions that make the holiday shopping season commercially productive for legitimate retailers make it equally productive for cybercriminals. Urgency, distraction, high transaction volume, and the expectation of promotional communications from brands create an environment where the verification habits that protect consumers and […]

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Hackers Are Reading Your WhatsApp Messages Without Ever Touching Your Password

Hackers Are Reading Your WhatsApp Messages Without Ever Touching Your Password

Researchers are documenting a rise in WhatsApp account compromises that bypass the authentication controls most security awareness training focuses on. Attackers are not stealing passwords, breaking encryption, or triggering the login alerts that would prompt immediate response. They are exploiting WhatsApp’s own device-linking feature to silently attach their browser to a victim’s account, gaining real-time […]

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The PayPal Subscription Scam and What It Actually Means for Your Business Email Security

The PayPal Subscription Scam and What It Actually Means for Your Business Email Security

Scammers have found a way to send phishing emails that originate directly from PayPal’s own servers, pass through standard email security filters without triggering alerts, and arrive in recipients’ inboxes formatted with authentic PayPal branding. The attack exploits PayPal’s legitimate Subscriptions feature to generate real notification emails carrying fraudulent content, including fabricated high-value purchases and […]

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What the Data on IT Fragmentation Actually Means for Your Security and Productivity Decisions

What the Data on IT Fragmentation Actually Means for Your Security and Productivity Decisions

A JumpCloud and Google Workspace survey of IT leaders has produced findings that deserve more attention than the typical conversation about workplace software receives. Only 6% of IT leaders report that their current office software setup functions as it should, leaving 94% contending with problems that span rising costs, security vulnerabilities, and compounding operational complexity. […]

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What the Data on AI-Generated Code Quality Actually Means for Your Software Development Decisions

What the Data on AI-Generated Code Quality Actually Means for Your Software Development Decisions

A CodeRabbit analysis of 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, split between AI-assisted and purely human-authored code, has produced findings that deserve more careful attention than the general debate about AI in software development typically receives. AI-assisted code averaged 10.83 issues per pull request compared to 6.45 in human-written code, representing approximately 1.7 times as many […]

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Why the Most Effective Organizations Are Pulling Back From AI-First and What They Are Replacing It With

Why the Most Effective Organizations Are Pulling Back From AI-First and What They Are Replacing It With

A study from monday.com, combined with Nielsen research, has surfaced a dynamic that is developing quietly beneath the continued growth in AI adoption metrics: 94 percent of directors are actively using AI tools at work, and a significant portion of them feel uncomfortable about it. The discomfort is not primarily about the tools themselves. It […]

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Why a Criminal Hacking Tool Becoming a Geopolitical Weapon Should Change How You Think About Your Business’s Risk

Why a Criminal Hacking Tool Becoming a Geopolitical Weapon Should Change How You Think About Your Business’s Risk

The trajectory of RomCom RAT from financial crime tool to instrument of state-aligned cyber espionage is worth understanding not as a story about malware evolution but as evidence of how the threat landscape that businesses operate in has fundamentally changed. What began as a relatively conventional remote access trojan used for credential theft and account […]

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Why Cybercriminals Consider the Holiday Season Their Best Business Quarter

Why Cybercriminals Consider the Holiday Season Their Best Business Quarter

The same conditions that make the holiday season valuable for retailers make it attractive for attackers: high transaction volumes, elevated customer account activity, staff attention stretched across operational priorities, and the organizational pressure to keep orders moving that makes careful security review feel like a luxury. The RH-ISAC 2025 Holiday Season Cyber Threat Trends report […]

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The Customers Your AI Strategy Is Leaving Behind and What It’s Costing You

The Customers Your AI Strategy Is Leaving Behind and What It’s Costing You

Research from Cisco and the OECD has quantified a generational divide in AI adoption that businesses deploying AI in customer-facing functions need to understand as a revenue and retention issue rather than a demographic curiosity. Among adults under 35, more than half are actively using AI tools, and more than 75 percent report finding them […]

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