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Top Cybersecurity Trends to Watch This Year—and Why Identity Protection Is Central

Insights from Google’s Cybersecurity Forecast 2026 Each year, Google Cloud releases its Cybersecurity Forecast based on real-world intelligence gathered from frontline defenders. The Cybersecurity Forecast 2026 shows a threat landscape where attackers are evolving faster, campaigns are lasting longer, and identity—human and non-human—is now the primary attack surface. For organizations, this reinforces a critical truth: […]

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Google Issues Urgent Security Warning About Malicious VPNs Stealing User Data

As the holidays approach, Google has offered an unexpected but crucial security gift to internet users—a warning about the dangers of downloading malicious VPNs. While VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are generally known for helping protect your privacy and security online, Google’s recent advisory sheds light on a growing threat: bad actors posing as legitimate VPN

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New Pew Research Survey: 73% of U.S. Adults Have Been Victims of an Online Scam

Online scams are now so widespread that they’ve touched nearly three out of four Americans. According to a new Pew Research Center survey of 9,397 U.S. adults, 73% have experienced some type of online scam or attack — a clear sign that digital fraud has become a defining threat of our time. And the trend

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New Salesforce Extortion Campaign Could Impact 1 Billion Records

Cybercriminals connected to a recent string of ransomware attacks on major British retailers have claimed to have stolen nearly 1 billion records from companies that store customer data in cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. The same hacking collective—known by aliases such as Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters—launched a dark web site called Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters

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Major Amazon AWS outage disrupts numerous popular apps and web services

At least a thousand companies were affected by Monday’s Amazon AWS outage, the largest internet disruption since last year’s CrowdStrike incident, which caused more than 8.5 million systems to crash at several organizations, including many Fortune 1000 companies. The AWS outage affected many popular online services ranging from Alexa, Snapchat and Venmo to gaming platforms

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Microsoft SharePoint attack victim count rises to 400, including high-profile US organizations

Ransomware groups are now targeting Microsoft SharePoint—a platform trusted by more than 190 million users worldwide for collaboration and document management. It’s the latest development in a growing wave of cyberattacks targeting known vulnerabilities in the system. Recent reports suggest the scale of the attacks is far worse than initially thought. What started as an

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AI Is Supercharging Phishing Attacks—And Changing Cybersecurity as We Know It

Phishing remains one of the most common entry points for cyberattacks—and thanks to AI, phishing emails are becoming more convincing and harder to detect than ever before. Even though only 0.7–4.7% of phishing emails that made it past filters in 2024 were AI-generated, researchers at Hoxhunt say the level of sophistication is quickly rising. AI

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Top Cyberattacks of 2024

As 2024 wraps up, cyberattacks caused major headaches across various industries, most often in healthcare and critical infrastructure. This year, we’ve seen a surge in ransomware attacks hitting healthcare providers, leading to stolen patient data and service disruptions. Additionally, Chinese espionage activities have intensified, targeting U.S. and allied nations’ critical sectors to potentially disrupt services

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Data Breach Victims Top 1 Billion During First Half of 2024

More than a billion people were hit by data breaches in the first half of 2024 —a jaw-dropping 1,170% jump from the same time last year. The latest Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) report has been released and the numbers are alarming.  Here are a few highlights from the H1 2024 Data Breach Report released

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AI Boosting the Frequency and Sophistication of Phishing Schemes

It’s getting tougher to identify a phishing attack with AI technology boosting the frequency and sophistication of phishing schemes.  According to recent research by a group of Harvard professors and cybersecurity experts, 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of non-AI-phishing messages created by human

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