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By Threat Research Team
The Gentlemen is a financially motivated ransomware group that combines data theft with encryption to increase pressure on victims. They first came onto the threat scene in July 2025. Rather than relying on encryption alone, the group exfiltrates sensitive business data before locking files, leaving organizations to deal with both operational disruption and the risk of stolen information being exposed.
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By Emma Stevens
Jailbreak prompts (i.e. prompts designed to remove or bypass the guardrails and rules that govern AI systems, like LLMs) prompts have been circulating for years. At first, a lot of it was pretty simple: copy a prompt, tell the model to ignore its rules, and see what happens. It was also largely noisy, unverified, and often didn’t work. But the noise was still telling us something. Threat actors were beginning to study AI systems the same way defenders were, and over time, the goal started to change.
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By Doran Lavi
Not every threat matters equally to every organization. A newly discovered APT or ransomware group targeting European automotive manufacturers is definitely worth paying attention to, especially if you’re in that sector. But if you’re a financial services firm in California, it’s probably not an immediate priority. You might look into it, track its activity, and assess whether it could become relevant.
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By Bitsight TRACE
Bitsight TRACE has been actively monitoring the Aisuru botnet since February 2026. Through our dedicated infrastructure, we have observed the specific commands issued to the botnet and operational patterns orchestrated by the botnet's operators.
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By Emma Stevens
Insurance has always been a data-rich industry. But recent threat intelligence makes it clear that attackers are not only going after insurers because they are large organizations. They’re going after them because insurance touches some of a threat actor’s favorite things: money, identity, healthcare, legal claims, third-party relationships, and highly sensitive customer records.
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By Emma Stevens
AI adoption is moving faster than most of us anticipated and, more importantly, faster than most organizations can govern it. Organizations are implementing the use of AI-enabled applications, browser extensions, coding assistants, and automated agents to enable employees to work faster. In many cases, these tools are adopted without security review, procurement approval, or a clear understanding of where organizational data is being sent.
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By Pedro Umbelino
Most of the exposure research we publish goes one way. We count some category of internet-exposed devices, the number is bigger than you hoped, and it is climbing. Webcams. Industrial control systems. NTP servers old enough to vote. The story is almost always "there is more of this exposed than there should be, and it is getting worse.".
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By Emma Stevens
Financial institutions are not short on cybersecurity policies, frameworks, or regulatory requirements. Turning those requirements into a living risk management program can be challenging. Organizations need a program that can keep pace as technology environments expand, cloud adoption grows, third parties are added, and external exposures change. Especially as the threat landscape continues to evolve.
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By Emma Stevens
AI is quickly becoming one of the most useful tools available to security researchers. Its ability to analyze enormous volumes of data, identify vulnerabilities, reconstruct attacks, connect seemingly unrelated signals, and help defenders respond faster than humans could alone is incredibly beneficial.
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By Pedro Falé
In this post, we will uncover the “Fuyao Enterprise,” a previously unknown, sophisticated and highly modular botnet operating within Android TV boxes. This operation marks a shift in modern ad-fraud, where automated bots fake both clicks and views to defraud advertisers and ad-networks. While deploying novel tactics and techniques, Fuyao managed to escape public research for several years. Now, its operators openly advertise their network of over 120,000 “AI digital humans.".
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By Bitsight
Cyberattacks take shape long before a breach through exposed systems, vulnerable software, stolen credentials, underground tools, and attacker experimentation. In this webinar, Emma Stevens, Threat Intelligence Researcher at Bitsight, and Qionglu Lei, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bitsight, explore what Bitsight research reveals about AI-enabled attacker behavior and the changing cyber underground.
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By Bitsight
This is a practical session for SecOps, GRC, TPRM, and cyber risk teams on connecting exposure, supply chain risk, and business impact into a resilience story leadership can trust.
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By Bitsight
Advanced AI models are changing the cyber threat landscape by accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and attacker decision-making. Regulators like the ECB have made clear: action plans are necessary. Financial institutions need to understand whether their existing cyber risk programs can keep pace, not only across their own attack surface, but across the critical third parties and software dependencies they rely on.
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By Bitsight
More data does not always mean better decisions. For TPRM teams, the value comes from actionable, correlated intelligence that helps identify which risks need attention first. In this clip from Three Hard Truths About TPRM, Julie Gaiaschi of TPRA and Vanessa Jankowski of Bitsight discuss how threat context can help organizations prioritize third-party risk, strengthen supply chain resilience, and support business continuity under pressure.
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By Bitsight
Third-party risk doesn’t wait for annual reviews. Vendor ecosystems change constantly, and risk teams need visibility that keeps pace. In this clip from Three Hard Truths About TPRM, Julie Gaiaschi, CEO and Co-Founder of TPRA, and Vanessa Jankowski, SVP and GM of Bitsight’s TPRM solution, explore why continuous monitoring and real-time visibility are critical for stronger accountability, faster response, and better resilience across the vendor ecosystem.
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By Bitsight
Not every vendor risk deserves the same level of attention. The real challenge is knowing which risks matter most to the business. In this clip from Three Hard Truths About TPRM, Julie Gaiaschi of TPRA and Vanessa Jankowski of Bitsight discuss why business context is becoming the new filter for prioritizing third-party risk — helping teams focus on continuity, revenue protection, and the vendors that truly impact operations.
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By Bitsight
Third-party risk management can’t stop at static vendor lists. In today’s interconnected business environment, organizations need to understand the dependencies behind their vendors — including subcontractors, fourth parties, and concentration risks that can affect operational resilience. In this clip from Three Hard Truths About TPRM, Julie Gaiaschi, CEO and Co-Founder of TPRA, and Vanessa Jankowski, SVP and GM of Bitsight’s TPRM solution, discuss why stronger Nth-party visibility is essential for modern third-party risk programs.
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By Bitsight
Frontier AI is compressing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, making reactive security strategies harder to sustain. In this webinar, Roland Cloutier (Former CISO of of ByteDance & TikTok, ADP, and EMC) and Gabi Reish discuss how security leaders can move beyond patching everything to prioritize real risk, measure cyber readiness, and communicate security posture to the board.
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By Bitsight
Frontier AI models like Mythos have intensified the urgency to rethink cybersecurity. But for third-party risk teams, the harder question remains: how do we prioritize the actions that actually drive business outcomes? As TPRM becomes more tightly tied to business impact, resilience, continuity, and revenue protection, leaders need a clearer view of the hard truths shaping their programs.
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By BitSight
Cybersecurity ROI isn't about cost savings. It's about how your cybersecurity program helps you achieve your goals while managing risk to a level that your executive team is comfortable with. So if you shouldn't measure success in cost savings, how do you measure it? BitSight is providing five steps that help CISOs and executive teams evaluate their company's cybersecurity performance.
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By BitSight
Are you overwhelmed by the intricacies of your attack surface? Concerned about the rising risk of vulnerabilities in your and your partners' digital ecosystems? New BitSight research finds that the average vulnerability remediation rate across organizations is about 5 percent per month, sparking concern that the status quo of exposure and vulnerability management is broken. Moreover, organizations face significant challenges in managing vulnerabilities in their extended, third-party ecosystem, and most security leaders do not have the tools to address these emerging threats.
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By BitSight
Traditional vendor risk management programs are not effective at mitigating risk in ever-expanding third-party networks, and yet 69% of businesses still rely on manual processes. It's time to take your program to the next level. How can you centralize, automate, and streamline your process to manage hundreds of vendors as effectively as you manage ten? Scalable VRM continuously detects, monitors, and mitigates risk, going beyond due diligence and initial assessments to constantly reassess and proactively act on vendor risk.
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By BitSight
Stop reacting to cyber risk as it comes. BitSight for Security Performance Management empowers security leaders to strengthen cyber resilience over time with objective, meaningful, and evidence-based metrics. Gain insights, drive decisions, and build confidence with our suite of advanced analytics.
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