Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a cornerstone of our modern world, but its roots stretch back long before the internet. Far from a recent phenomenon, the field began in university labs and evolved through decades of innovation and conflict. For professionals and everyday users alike, tracing this history reveals why today's defenses exist and why vigilance remains our most critical tool. The 1940s: Theoretical Seeds and Massive Machines Long before the first hack, pioneers were already contempl

Payment fraud is growing in scale and sophistication, affecting businesses across every industry, and as digital payments expand, so do the opportunities for bad actors to exploit vulnerabilities. Understanding how fraud works and how to prevent it is essential for protecting revenue, maintaining trust, and staying resilient in an increasingly complex threat landscape. What Is Payment Fraud? Payment fraud refers to the theft of money from businesses or individuals through unautho

The internet is basically a giant digital city, and you need to be just as streetwise here as outside your front door. Most people go online every day - scrolling through TikTok, finishing a research paper, or making purchases - but they don't always know the "rules of the road" or the vocabulary that tech experts use to describe our digital lives. Here's a breakdown of essential digital citizenship terms to help you navigate the web and mobile apps like a pro: Authority - Authority refe

Summary Quantum computing is moving from theory toward early practical use, with direct implications for encryption, authentication, and long-term data confidentiality. The primary risk is the eventual emergence of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs), which would break today’s public-key cryptography and undermine encryption, digital identity, and software trust at scale. Quantum risk is already present: “harvest now, decrypt later” activit

For security professionals evaluating threat intelligence vendors, the Gartner Magic Quadrant offers an indispensable perspective. Gartner analysts’ thorough and nuanced analysis cuts through the noise, making it easier for teams to understand each platform’s approach, strengths, and considerations—and helping them determine whether a particular vendor fits their organization’s unique needs. That’s why we’re honored to share that Gartner has named Recorded Future a Leader in the first-ev

This article introduces threat activity enablers (TAEs), the infrastructure providers and networks that underpin modern cyber threats across both criminal and state-sponsored activity. These entities sustain operations by enabling resilient, high-risk infrastructure that persists despite sanctions, takedowns, and public exposure. Behind every ransomware demand, botnet, or threat activity group is a server sitting in a data center. While most legitimate hosting provide

Summary Embodied AI has arrived.. Humanoid and quadruped robots are moving off factory floors and into everyday operations, military deployments, and critical infrastructure. Technological advances in large language models LLMs and robotics are enabling robots to perform complex tasks autonomously. Security has not kept pace. Researchers have demonstrated that commercially available robots can be hijacked over Bluetooth, covertly exfiltrate audio, video, and spatial data to serve

Intro There’s a certain energy you can only find at Recorded Future. Take that energy and bring it to London’s “Silicon Roundabout” and you get the perfect spot for Futurists to build and innovate. Recorded Future's office @ The Bower on Old Street. Source: https://www.theboweroldst.com/ Across the globe, Recorded Future is 1000+ employees working towards the same mi

Summary The United States (US) is shifting toward a more force-driven security strategy primarily relying on military operations and economic pressure to counter transnational criminal organizations and limit Chinese, Russian, and Iranian influence in the Western Hemisphere. Regional outcomes diverge across three core scenarios: US-aligned authoritarian cooperation with fragile stability Political fragmentation enabling criminal expansion and governan

Executives making AI decisions without hands-on building experience have a comprehension gap that no briefing can close. AI is rapidly eroding most traditional competitive moats, and proprietary data's real value now comes down to how long it would take a competitor to reconstruct it. As AI equalizes development speed, the most valuable engineers are those with sharp judgment and companies need to actively protect the foundational skills that make that judgment po

Scams are a $450B–$1T global problem, and unlike card fraud, they don't require a breach; just convincing a victim to send money themselves. The mule account is the most stable target: every scam needs an exit point, and intelligence gathered before a transaction occurs is more actionable than behavioral monitoring after the fact. CYBERA's approach uses agentic personas to engage active scammers and extract verified mule account details, confirmed intelligence, no

Last week’s reporting on unauthorized access to Claude Mythos reads as an AI security story. It is also, structurally, a North Korea (DPRK) story. Even if the current suspects turn out to be Discord hobbyists. Mythos was meant to be contained. Within hours of the public Project Glasswing announcement, a third-party contractor environment became the access vector. Not because Anthropic did something wrong. Because controlled release, at the scale modern enterprise software operates, is a

Key Takeaways The real challenge in cybersecurity isn’t intelligence or visibility, it’s speed. Attackers operate at machine speed, while most organizations are still constrained by manual, human-driven workflows. Traditional threat intelligence falls short because it stops at insight. To reduce risk effectively, intelligence must not only inform decisions but also actively drive response. Fragmentation across cyber, fraud, and third-party risk creates expl

Summary Critical elements and rare earth elements REEs are no longer commodities; they are strategic dependencies. Chinaʼs dominance in processing and refining provides it with enormous geopolitical leverage over other industrialized economies. Geopolitical competition over mining and refining critical elements and REEs is accelerating. Competition to mine them will almost certainly expand into the Arctic, Greenland, Antarctica, the seabed, and space. These emerging arenas introd

The paradoxes of today’s digital world are well-known to anyone with a smartphone. Over the last decade, connectivity has expanded, yet the world has become more fragmented. Our everyday lives are more digital, but we spend more time parsing text messages for scams or deliberating the authenticity of potential deepfakes. Technology is delivering great productivity gains to small businesses while making them a larger target for cybercriminals. In this environment, exposure becomes

Executive Summary Chinese-language, Telegram-based “guarantee” marketplaces are increasingly popular among Chinese-speaking criminal groups despite the widely publicized shutdown of Huione Guarantee in 2025. Although these guarantee marketplaces operate similarly to Huione Guarantee, they differ in their focus on particular aspects of cybercrime and in their targeting of specific geographies. To better understand these Chinese-language guarantee marketplaces, Insikt Group observed and an

AI vulnerability research and discovery capabilities are improving, but they have not changed the fundamentals of vulnerability management. Instead, they are scaling up problems familiar to vulnerability managers: patch prioritization and remediation backlogs. For defenders, the timeline for determining which vulnerabilities matter most and remediating them before exploitation begins is narrowing, even as the overall volume of vulnerabilities rises. Organizations that rely on manual prio

Summary Agentic AI adoption is accelerating rapidly as enterprise software and applications increasingly incorporate task-specific AI agents, enabling autonomous execution of complex tasks at machine speed. The autonomy and scale of AI agents introduce significant enterprise risk, as errors, misconfigurations, or malicious manipulation can propagate quickly across interconnected systems, amplifying the potential impact of incidents. Agentic AI will exacerbate existing wea

Business impersonation is the hidden thread connecting old and new fraud. Discover how the same core tactic is fueling both a surge in commercial check fraud and an explosion of AI-powered online shopping scams targeting younger consumers. Tools like Positive Pay and 3D Secure authentication, while effective against the fraud they were built to stop, have pushed threat actors to evolve their schemes in ways that render those controls irrelevant. Ecosystem gaps are

TeamPCP exploited a single stolen credential to gain write access to trusted software repositories, inject credential-harvesting malware, and cascade across five ecosystems in five days. Stolen credentials can enable payroll redirection, freight rerouting, and extortion — active campaigns Insikt Group is tracking that show how a software supply chain breach can quickly become a business operations crisis. Learn why an inventory of your software components isn't en