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Market & M&A Analysis Shares of Informatica (NYSE:INFA) rose 1.6% after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) granted an early termination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) antitrust waiting period for its planned acquisition by Salesforce (CRM). The notice, which signals a significant step forward for the deal, was disclosed on the ...

Supply Chain Attack Analysis Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks has confirmed it suffered a data breach after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the widespread Salesloft Drift supply chain attack to access its Salesforce instance. In a statement, the company confirmed that it was one of hundreds of customers impacted ...

Incident Analysis Financial technology giant Evertec has disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that hackers breached its Brazilian subsidiary, Sinqia S.A., on August 29, 2025. The attackers gained unauthorized access to Sinqia’s environment on Pix, Brazil’s real-time payment system, and attempted to conduct fraudulent ...

Nation-State Threat Analysis In a highly unusual joint statement, security officials from the United States and multiple allied nations have detailed a sweeping, yearslong cyberattack attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as “Salt Typhoon.” The campaign is being described as China’s most ambitious cyber-operation to date, having infiltrated major ...

Incident Analysis Tire giant Bridgestone has confirmed it is investigating a cyberattack that has disrupted the operations of some of its manufacturing facilities in North America. The incident, which came to light on September 2, 2025, has affected production plants in both the United States and Canada. In a statement, ...

Data Exposure Analysis A threat actor on a known cybercrime forum is claiming to have leaked a database that they allege was stolen from the Indonesian company PT Gunung Himun Peratama. According to the seller’s post, the database contains highly sensitive employee information. The purportedly compromised data includes a comprehensive ...

Supply Chain Attack Analysis Workiva, a leading cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider for financial reporting and compliance, has notified its customers of a data breach where attackers stole a limited set of their data from a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) system. The company, which serves 85% of the Fortune 500, ...

Operational Analysis Penetration testing remains one of the most effective ways to identify real-world security weaknesses before adversaries do. However, as the threat landscape has evolved and the frequency of offensive testing has increased, the traditional methods for delivering pentest results—static PDFs, emailed documents, and manual spreadsheet tracking—have failed to ...

Industry Trend Analysis The emergence of Artificial Intelligence as a transformative force is compelling Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to rethink how their security teams operate. While machine learning has been a key component in cyber operations for years, recent advancements in Generative AI are pushing the technology deeper into ...