The legislation calls on federal law enforcement to help state, local and tribal agencies with blockchain and other investigative tools to fight pig butchering and other schemes.

Alex Pinto, Associate Director of Threat Intelligence at Verizon Business

Mandiant said exploits were the most common initial access vector last year, linking software defects to 1 in 3 attacks. The most commonly exploited vulnerabilities affected network…

The yearly report from the bureau is filled with stats. We pulled out the most interesting ones.

Cyber defenders say AI technologies are quickly evolving to help stop sophisticated threat groups, including Chinese adversaries, from embedding themselves inside target organizations.

Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report noted a 37% increase in ransomware attacks and a 34% increase in exploited vulnerabilities.

Will Pearce, CEO and Co-founder of Dreadnode

Exploited vulnerabilities have turned up in Ivanti products 16 times since 2024. That’s more than any other vendor in the network edge device space.

Lior Div, co-founder and CEO of 7AI

Microsoft said Storm-2460 has exploited the zero-day in the Windows Common Log File System to attack organizations in the U.S., Venezuela, Spain and Saudi Arabia.