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AI’s latest wave is reshaping cybersecurity in a fundamental way. Capabilities that once were limited to a handful of frontier models are now widely accessible, cheaper, and embedded across more environments. As access expands, risk is growing fast and scaling even faster.

For years, development and security practitioners have treated dynamic application security testing as a critical final safety check before code goes live. However, the external attack surface is expanding faster than mid-sized security teams can realistically manage. In this high-velocity environment, legacy DAST tools are increasingly failing to keep pace.

Right now, a bot is running a single command against a website and reading the first few lines that come back. Maybe yours. It is not personal. The bot is working down a list of a few hundred thousand WordPress sites, and any given site is on it because WordPress runs more than 40% of the web and the same small set of mistakes shows up on most of them. You can read exactly what that bot reads. It takes about ten minutes, the tools are already on your machine, and none of it is hacking.

In June 2026, ServiceNow disclosed that a customer-facing API endpoint had been shipped with authentication switched off, letting anyone query internal tables on hosted customer instances without a password. It wasn’t an isolated case. In 2025, a deprecated Stripe payment endpoint, still connected to live systems, let attackers validate stolen card numbers for months before anyone noticed.

Independent journalists, analysts, and working CISOs are all reaching the same conclusion about questionnaire-based, point-in-time risk assessment: it’s no longer enough. Risk and vulnerabilities keep growing, compliance obligations keep stacking up, and AI adds an entirely new surface to account for. CISOs need something better: a continuous approach with visibility across their business, that actually reduces risk rather than just documenting it.

In Part I of this series — “Behind the Fake Tax Notice” — the Foresiet Threat Intelligence Team mapped a multi-country, tax- and invoice-themed phishing network built around hxxps://adresesvip/. That infrastructure, hosted on Alibaba Cloud in Hong Kong, was used to target taxpayers across India, Germany, Malaysia and Japan. The first report documented the lure, the sender and the hosting, but left one question open: what does the campaign actually deliver?

The managed security services market is projected to reach US$ 87.9 Billion by 2033, up from US$ 41.3 Billion in 2026 at an 11.4% CAGR according to Persistence Market Research. That number matters because it reframes managed SOC services from a niche outsourcing decision into a mainstream operating model for security teams that can't afford blind spots, delayed response, or constant hiring battles.

Emerging in July 2021, BlackMatter is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform that permits the developers of the ransomware to generate income through the actions of their cybercriminal associates, referred to as BlackMatter actors, who utilize it against targets. BlackMatter is potentially a reimagining of DarkSide, another RaaS that remained operational from September 2020 to May 2021.