Year in Review 2025: The major headlines and moments from Sophos this year

Security Operations Centers (SOC) today are overwhelmed. Analysts handle thousands of alerts every day, spending much time chasing false positives and adjusting detection rules reactively. SOCs often lack the environmental context and relevant threat intelligence needed to quickly verify which alerts are truly malicious. As a result, analysts spend excessive time manually triaging alerts, the

Attackers have been exploiting a second vulnerability in BeyondTrust’s remote management solutions, CISA warns. The post CISA Warns of Second BeyondTrust Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Lawrence Abrams reports: An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have stolen nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal development respositories, with the company confirming it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances. This data allegedly includes approximately 800 Customer Engagement Reports (CERs), which can contain sensitive information about a……

On November 11, 2024, Humboldt Independent Practice Association (Humboldt IPA) submitted a breach report to HHS that used a placeholder of 500 for the number of patients affected. All we knew from HHS’s entry was that it was some kind of hacking or IT incident involving protected health information located in email. The California entity’s…

Is AI really reshaping the cyber threat landscape, or is the constant drumbeat of hype drowning out actual, more tangible, real-world dangers? According to Picus Labs’ Red Report 2025 which analyzed over one million malware samples, there’s been no significant surge, so far, in AI-driven attacks. Yes, adversaries are definitely continuing to innovate, and while…

Cameron Montemayor reports:  Multiple sources and documents obtained via public records requests indicate the city suffered a significant cyberattack in early June, an incident that crippled network services for an extended period of time and potentially exposed the personal data of thousands of residents, city officials confirmed Monday. The City of St. Joseph has been……