Posts for: #Security

Passkeys, FIDO Keys, and the Death of SMS MFA: What Small Businesses Should Actually Do Next

On January 9, 2024, the official U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Twitter account announced that the SEC had approved Bitcoin ETFs. Bitcoin’s price spiked roughly 10 percent in minutes. The announcement was fake — attackers had SIM-swapped the phone number linked to the SEC’s account, intercepted the verification code, and posted on the SEC’s behalf. The actual approval came the next day. The SEC is not a small business. It has a legal team, a security team, and a public-facing communications infrastructure.
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Managing Technical Debt in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Introduction Hybrid cloud was supposed to be a stepping stone. For most organizations, it became the permanent state. Migration timelines slipped, business-critical workloads stayed on-prem longer than anyone planned, and now teams are running infrastructure across two environments indefinitely — not by design, but by inertia. The problem isn’t the hybrid model itself. It’s that running workloads across on-premises and cloud infrastructure doesn’t just double your complexity; it multiplies the ways technical debt accumulates and hides.
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Axios npm Supply Chain Attack: Incident Analysis & Response Guide

Axios npm Supply Chain Attack: Incident Analysis & Response Guide Publication Date: March 31, 2026 Incident Date: March 31, 2026 (00:21–03:29 UTC) Severity Level: Critical Executive Summary What This Means The Incident On March 31, 2026, the Axios JavaScript library—one of the most widely used HTTP request packages in the world—was compromised through an attacker gaining unauthorized access to the npm account of a core maintainer. Two malicious versions (1.14.1 and 0.
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Axios Supply Chain Attack: CrowdStrike Falcon Mitigation Guide

Axios Supply Chain Attack: CrowdStrike Falcon Mitigation Guide Incident Date: March 31, 2026 (00:21–03:29 UTC) Guide Published: April 1, 2026 Severity: Critical Platform: CrowdStrike Falcon (All tiers) For the full incident narrative and non-Falcon detection logic, see the companion article: Axios npm Supply Chain Attack: Incident Analysis & Response Guide Overview On March 31, 2026, threat actors published two backdoored versions of the axios npm package (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) by compromising maintainer jasonsaayman’s npm account.
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How AI Has Impacted the Modern Phishing Landscape

Since November 2022—when ChatGPT launched—phishing has transformed from a labor-intensive attack vector into an industrialized threat operating at unprecedented scale. The statistics are staggering: researchers report a 1,265% to 4,151% increase in phishing emails since ChatGPT’s release, with AI-generated campaigns achieving a 54% click-through rate compared to just 12% for traditional attacks. What once took a skilled attacker 16 hours to craft now takes an AI system five minutes. The phishing landscape hasn’t merely evolved; it has been fundamentally restructured by artificial intelligence.
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