Vendors continue to hold off major announcements until Black Hat in Las Vegas at the beginning of July.
In other news. BlueVoyant has added Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) capabilities to its third-party cyber risk management solution. It will allow customers to now import SBOM data from software vendors. The solution is part of BlueVoyant’s partnership with Manifest.
Logicalis released its 2025 CIO Report, showing rising attacks and continued gaps in the cybersecurity posture of many organisations. In the last year, 80% of UK organisations admitted to having a cyber incident, with 20% suffering multiple breaches. According to Logicalis, the rest of the world had suffered 88% breaches.
eSentire
The eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) published a blog analysing the DeerStealer malware. It is the last link in a chain of malware that offers threat actors the ability to harvest a wealth of data from victims. Among that data are crypto-currency wallets, instant messengers, VPNs, browser cookies, passwords, credit cards, and autofill from victim machines.
The blog details how attacks work and how the TRU spotted it. Offered from $200 to $3,000 based on functionality, it is priced to appeal to those with different skill sets. To help cybersecurity teams defend against it, the TRU has provided recommendations on what to lock down. It also has a separate post giving indicators of compromise.
Europol
Europol has published its 2025 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA). It looks at the black market in stolen personal data and concludes that business is booming. As many cybersecurity experts predicted, Generative AI and LLMs are being leveraged to supercharge social media attacks. The tools in use are also constantly evolving to improve the effectiveness of attacks.
FBI
On World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, the FBI is warning about the increase in elder fraud. Elderly targets are seen as being rich and are considered especially vulnerable. Last year, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) recorded $4.885 billion in losses from 147,127 complaints. Complaints rose 46% and losses rose 43% over the previous year.
Qualys
Qualys has opened a new office in Washington, DC. The focus of that office is to support its growing public sector customer base. Organisations are moving from a passive and reactive response to a proactive risk management. For Qualys, that means its Risk Operations Centre (ROC) model is in increasing demand. This new office will support the government’s adoption of ROC.
ThreatQuotient
ThreatQuotient has been acquired by Securonix for an undisclosed amount. The release states, “This combination will create a comprehensive, modular, and fully integrated AI-driven platform for threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR), leveraging advanced analytics and insights across both internal and external threats.”
US Department of Justice
Iurii Gugnin, the founder of cryptocurrency payment company Evita, has been charged with wire and bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and a host of other charges. He is alleged to have laundered over $500 million through the US financial system and transacted with sanctioned Russian banks.
Xalient
Xalient and Silverfort are to partner to improve identity threat detection and drive multi-factor authentication (MFA). The two aim to secure both human and non-human identities across IT and operational technology (OT) environments.
