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84 articlesUpdated 28 Sep 2026Page 4 of 4

InsightsCloud & SaaS
Entra ID's February 2027 Sign-In Block: A Dated Migration Plan for the Accounts That Will Break
Microsoft retires SMS and voice MFA on 1 February 2027 with a blocking passkey prompt and no opt-out. Here is a dated plan for service accounts, break-glass and phoneless users.
Aisha Noor11 Sep 20266 min read
GuidesGov & Defence
CERT-In's six-hour clock meets DPDP: one intake process, two notification deadlines
India's six-hour CERT-In reporting clock has run since June 2022. From May 2027 a second DPDP clock starts on the same incident. Build one intake process now.
Tom Verhoeven11 Sep 20266 min read
ThreatsBanking & FintechHigh
Gigabud Android Banking Trojan Abuses Work Profiles to Evade Client-Side Detection
Group-IB uncovered a major evolution in the Gigabud banking trojan, which uses Android enterprise Work Profiles to isolate tampered banking apps and blind client security checks.
Mei-Lin Chen10 Sep 20265 min read
InsightsCloud & SaaS
The agentic AI security gap: 83% are deploying, 29% feel ready
Prompt injection is now OWASP’s top LLM risk with reported success rates of 50–84%. Organisations are shipping agents into production well ahead of their controls.
Priya Raman10 Sep 20268 min read
ThreatsCloud & SaaSCritical
SAP OVERPASS: CVSS 10.0 Kernel Flaw Enables Pre-Auth Remote Code Execution
SAP and Onapsis disclosed OVERPASS (CVE-2026-44756), a maximum-severity kernel flaw in Extended Passport processing enabling unauthenticated root RCE on enterprise ERP hosts.
Priya Raman9 Sep 20266 min read
InsightsCloud & SaaS
88% Had an AI Agent Incident. 82% Believe Their Policy Covers It.
Gravitee says 88% of organisations had a confirmed or suspected AI agent incident, while 82% of executives trust their policy. Both figures, one population.
Priya Raman9 Sep 20266 min read
ThreatsBanking & FintechHigh
Slim Spider Targets Brazilian Instant Payments (Pix) and Crypto Custody Infrastructure
CrowdStrike revealed Slim Spider, a financially motivated cybercrime group abusing cloud IMDS credentials to penetrate Brazilian instant payment (Pix) and crypto custody systems.
Daniel Okafor8 Sep 20266 min read
NewsCrypto & Web3
Liquid Network Elements Protocol Exploit Triggers 4,000 BTC Sidechain Drain
A vulnerability in the Elements sidechain protocol led to an unauthorized 4,000 BTC withdrawal from the Liquid Federation multi-sig peg, prompting an emergency network freeze and partial fund recovery.
CST Newsroom7 Sep 20266 min read
InsightsCloud & SaaS
MFA failed in 84% of incident responses. The problem is the session, not the factor
With 99% of SaaS compromises originating at the identity provider, MFA is no longer the control organisations think they bought. Here is what changed.
Aisha Noor6 Sep 20267 min read
ThreatsBanking & FintechHigh
Infostealers harvested 1.7 billion credentials in six months as Vidar and Lumma dominate
Researchers logged 7.4 million infected devices between January and June 2026 — a 27% jump — as the infostealer market matured into a fully automated criminal supply chain.
Mei-Lin Chen3 Sep 20267 min read
InsightsBanking & Fintech
The SEC’s four-day disclosure clock in practice: materiality is the hard part
Public companies must disclose material cyber incidents within four business days. The deadline is simple; deciding what counts as material is not.
Tom Verhoeven3 Sep 20266 min read
ThreatsBanking & FintechHigh
One AiTM phishing campaign compromised 35,000 users across 13,000 organisations in three days
Adversary-in-the-middle phishing now defeats standard MFA at industrial scale. Microsoft tracked a single April 2026 campaign spanning 26 countries in 72 hours.
Aisha Noor2 Sep 20267 min read