China launches probe into security of Palo Alto Networks’ products

China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has conducted a review of Palo Alto Networks’ products. The regulator’s announcement of its review says it’s needed “to ensure the safe and stable operation of critical information infrastructure, prevent cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, and safeguard national security.” Read More …

How legitimate cloud platforms enable phishers to bypass MFA

Threat actors are increasingly exploiting legitimate cloud services to evade detection and streamline the deployment of their scam infrastructure. Cloud hosting services and decentralized networks have become primary platforms for hosting phishing pages and sites. Throughout 2025 and 2026, Kaspersky Read More …

Network Anomaly Detection in KATA

Once the attacker has breached the corporate network, subsequent stages of the attack often involve leveraging standard domain infrastructure protocols: using Kerberos, running DNS queries, accessing internal services, opening network shares, and other common networking actions. Because this activity is Read More …

The Next Evolution of MDR: Preemptive Defense and Agentic Investigation

For years, security operations followed a familiar sequence: detect suspicious activity, investigate what happened, and respond before it caused significant harm. That model developed in a threat landscape where defenders had considerably more time to establish the facts and decide Read More …

Hackers breached DHS after alarms were twice ruled ‘false positives’

Hackers managed to find their way into the US Department of Homeland Security’s primary information sharing platform, gaining unfettered access to the HSIN network that hosts unclassified information that multiple US agencies and international rely on. The hack allowed the Read More …

Adapt or pay: an analysis of the AdaptixC2 framework

As highlighted in our previous post about the Mythic framework, threat actors are rapidly adopting emerging technologies and frameworks. A prime example of this trend is AdaptixC2, a relatively new open-source post-exploitation framework that has quickly captured the attention of Read More …

What Project Glasswing Means for Security Leaders

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing matters because it offers an early look at how quickly software flaws may soon be found, validated, and potentially turned into viable attack paths, even if that capability is currently limited to a closed partner program. Anthropic Read More …

Novel Technique to Detect Cloud Threat Actor Operations

Cloud-based alerting systems often struggle to distinguish between normal cloud activity and targeted malicious operations by known threat actors. The difficulty doesn’t lie in an inability to identify complex alerting operations across thousands of cloud resources or in a failure Read More …

Identifying and Mitigating Potential Velociraptor Abuse

Open-source technologies and communities are a big part of the Rapid7 ethos, and that’s not by chance – it’s by design. Rapid7 believe that their Metasploit, AttackerKB, and Velociraptor initiatives help create a strong threat intelligence foundation as well as Read More …