Security News & Regulatory Intelligence

Ransomware Groups Are Shifting to Data Extortion Without Encryption

Encrypting a victim's files takes time and leaves forensic evidence. Increasingly, ransomware groups skip it entirely and go straight to exfiltration-and-extortion.

Why Supply-Chain Attacks Keep Working: Lessons from SolarWinds and xz-utils

Two of the most consequential software supply-chain compromises on record share a root cause that most vendor-risk programs still don't test for.

NIS2 Transposition Status: Where EU Member States Actually Stand

The 17 October 2024 transposition deadline came and went with most member states still finalizing their national laws. Here's why that matters for your actual compliance date.

The MOVEit Breach, One Year Later: What It Changed About Vendor Risk

A single zero-day in a widely-used file-transfer product cascaded into one of the largest data-exposure events on record, purely through vendor concentration.

DORA Is Now Applicable: What Actually Changed on January 17, 2025

Unlike NIS2, DORA needed no national transposition — it became binding across the entire EU financial sector on a single day. Here's what that actually triggers.

The CVE Program's Funding Scare and What It Means for Vulnerability Management

A near-lapse in the CVE program's federal funding in 2025 was a real wake-up call about how much of global vulnerability management runs on a single point of failure.

PCI DSS 4.0's Future-Dated Requirements Are Now Mandatory

The subset of PCI DSS v4.0 requirements that were 'best practice until' 31 March 2025 are now simply requirements. Expanded MFA is the one most organizations still have work on.