Huntress published a vendor blog post on the role and limits of Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) in modern data protection. It explains that VSS remains a core framework for application-consistent snapshots on Windows workloads but should not be treated as a complete recovery or ransomware defense. The article warns that modern …
Huntress reports that manufacturing accounted for about 17% of cyber attacks in 2025, up from 9% in 2024, citing its own cyber threat report. The article is a vendor trends piece rather than an incident report. It argues that ransomware operators now target production uptime and operational technology (OT), not just data, because manufact…
This Huntress vendor blog post is educational and promotional content, not a report of a specific threat or incident. It compares 13 cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks, including NIST CSF 2.0, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, CIS Critical Security Controls, COBIT, HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0, SOC 2, MITRE ATT&CK, CMMC 2.0, GLBA, FISMA and FFIEC CAT…
A Huntress educational blog post describes the dark web as a business ecosystem rather than a purely chaotic space. The authors browsed .onion sites through Tor Browser in a virtual machine with JavaScript disabled. They found threat actors operating storefronts with About Us pages, tiered service packages, customer reviews and FAQs. Paym…
This is a Huntress employee spotlight on Sarah Reddish, a Security Operations Analyst in the company's global SOC (Triage & Analysis). It describes the analyst role: investigating suspicious activity and intrusions, building attack timelines and scope, and writing reports with practical remediation guidance for partners. The only incident…
IT Security Guru published an editorial buyer's guide to cybersecurity thought leadership agencies for 2026. It describes the services of ten firms and offers evaluation criteria for buyers. The article reports no incident, vulnerability, threat actor or indicator, so it has no direct defender impact. It is marketing and industry news onl…
TrustedSec (author Chris Camejo) explains that FCI and CUI safeguarding obligations do not exist during the pre-contract solicitation phase unless the contractor has agreed to a specific pre-contract agreement. Prime contractors, especially large DoD primes, are increasingly pushing CMMC, FAR 52.204-21 and DFARS 252.204-7012/7021 requirem…
Cloudflare and VoidZero, together with Max Schwenk of Owner.com, announced tsrs, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler incubated within the Oxc JavaScript toolchain and developed in collaboration with the TypeScript team. This is product and open source tooling news with no security incident, vulnerability or threat activit…
A contributed piece by Matias Madou (CTO and co-founder of Secure Code Warrior) argues that governance alone is not enough to control the security risks of agentic AI in software development. Organizations also need to know where they sit on an eight-stage AI Adoption Model. The article cites Gartner's prediction that costs of incidents d…
This is a sponsored article by Specops Software, not a report on a threat or incident. It sets out five priorities for agencies protecting Criminal Justice Information (CJI) under CJIS v6.1: multi-factor authentication, account management and least privilege, password policy, audit logging, and continuous audit readiness. It promotes Spec…
This vendor-authored article from Tines, published on The Hacker News, discusses "wild code": AI-assisted apps, agents and automations that employees build faster than security teams can own, secure and maintain them. It describes no specific incident, vulnerability or threat actor. The risks it names are excessive permissions, sensitive …
Researcher Justin.sh reports on a leaked confidential Cellebrite document describing a new 2026 product called Advanced Unlocks (AU), distinct from the vendor's long-marketed "advanced unlocking services". Cellebrite describes AU as a "next-generation AFU vector that is more resilient to Apple's OS changes". It reportedly works with Apple…
This sponsored piece from Zscaler argues that UK public services have reached a cyber resilience inflection point. It cites a new Prime Minister, the scrapping of DSIT, and the redistribution of its cyber and digital functions across Whitehall. Three forces are named: policy raising expectations for boards, organizational reform (Local Go…
TrustedSec has released a major update to SpooNMAP, its open-source wrapper that combines masscan for fast port discovery with Nmap for banner grabbing. The tool now runs context-aware NSE scripts against discovered services and writes severity-sorted findings (CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW) to findings.txt, findings.md and findings.json, each…
GreyNoise announced that its internet-scanning IP classification data is now available across the CrowdStrike Falcon platform through the GreyNoise Foundry App, listed on the CrowdStrike Marketplace. This is a product and integration announcement with no direct threat or incident. The integration is meant to help SOC teams separate benign…
GreyNoise reports that on 14 May 2026 its Global Observation Grid recorded 119,842 malicious, non-spoofable IPs targeting edge infrastructure. Compared against eleven widely used OSINT and commercial feeds, average coverage was 2.0%, and no single feed exceeded 5%. Even the largest list (Avastel, about 500,000 IPs) caught under 2%, and ve…
GreyNoise announced Project Swarm, a research initiative that opens its deception platform, the Global Observation Grid (5,000+ sensors in 80 countries, 500M+ sessions per day), to outside contributors. The stated aim is better visibility into attacks on network edge devices (firewalls, VPN gateways, routers, load balancers). These device…
GreyNoise announced C2 Detection, a new intelligence module that identifies compromised edge and perimeter devices (routers, firewalls, VPN concentrators) from their outbound connections to attacker-controlled infrastructure. The capability extends GreyNoise beyond inbound scanning intelligence into post-exploitation, outbound-facing dete…
This GreyNoise blog post is a product-oriented piece describing five workflows the vendor wires into customer SOAR platforms. It reports no incident, vulnerability or threat actor activity. The use cases are automated IP enrichment, early warning of exploitation spikes against vendor CVEs, detection of compromised edge devices, validated …
GreyNoise published a vendor blog post describing four ways SOC teams can use its internet-wide scan and attack classification to improve SIEM detection. The use cases separate opportunistic mass-scanning noise from activity that may be targeted at an organization. The post is product-oriented guidance and does not describe a specific inc…