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The healthcare sector remains one of the most targeted industries for cyber attacks due to its critical role in national infrastructure and its extensive repositories of sensitive data containing personally identifiable information (PII). It’s widely assumed that threat actors target healthcare and related organizations because they are perceived as more likely to pay a ransom to restore critical systems and protect patient safety in the event of an attack.

CrowdStrike Falcon for XIoT is gaining new innovations to protect operational technology (OT) and XIoT environments as they grow larger and more interconnected. The rapid expansion of industrial systems has led to blind spots across segmented networks, unmanaged devices, and legacy infrastructure. Most OT security tools, siloed by design, fail to see which assets are connected or how they communicate.

CrowdStrike is accelerating our vision for the SOC with the launch of new, specialized agents built to tackle some of the toughest modern challenges in security operations: faster data pipeline creation, simpler custom app creation, and continuous, authenticated exposure scanning. Earlier this year, we charted a path toward the agentic SOC — where security teams command fleets of intelligent agents that reason, decide, and act at machine speed while under defender control.

AI has transformed both how attackers operate and how defenders must respond. Today’s adversaries use AI to shift tactics in real time, forcing defenders to react at unprecedented speed. Many SOCs struggle to keep pace due to the limits of legacy automation. Even the most mature playbooks can’t anticipate every scenario or data variation, because playbooks are predictable — but adversaries aren’t.

Application Security Testing (AST) services use automated tools and manual techniques to find and fix security vulnerabilities in software, integrating security into the entire development lifecycle (SDLC) to prevent threats and protect applications from attacks. Key services include Static Application Security Testing (SAST) for code-level analysis, Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) for runtime testing, and Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) which combines both.

AI maturation is leading to more malicious hacking attacks. Like thousands of cybersecurity thought leaders, I’ve been speaking about AI being used maliciously since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022. I’m far from alone. The entire cybersecurity industry has been warning about it nonstop. We’ve known that as AI progresses, attackers would use those same productivity features, thereby harming us.

Human error remains the primary exploitation vector in mobile security incidents, according to Verizon’s latest Mobile Security Index (MSI). “At 44%, user behavior is the top cited breach contributor, just ahead of app threats, network threats, and internet threats, which were each cited by 43% of survey respondents,” the report says.

A study from Malwarebytes has found that one in three mobile users has been targeted by an extortion scam, and one in five of these users has fallen victim. Additionally, one in six users has been targeted by sextortion, with a higher number of these attacks (38%) affecting Gen Z users.

The first time it happened, nobody noticed. An automation reconciled a ledger, logged its success, and shut itself down. The token that made it possible looked harmless. Tidy, legacy, supposedly scoped “just enough.” But a week later, refunds ghosted, dashboards blinked, and audit logs told three different versions of the truth. And that token? Not a token at all. More like a Fabergé raptor egg sitting in a server room. Not decoration. Incubation. Of chaos.

In today’s fast-moving digital world, the adversary has evolved — threats aren’t just more frequent, they’re smarter. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer only a force for good. Threat actors now leverage AI-driven methods to automate attacks, craft human-like deception, and exploit blind spots in organizations relying on outdated defenses.