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Weak alerting and slipping prevention raise risk levels for CISOs

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Weak alerting and slipping prevention raise risk levels for CISOs 2025-08-18 at 07:47 By Mirko Zorz Prevention effectiveness is falling, detection gaps remain wide, and attackers are exploiting weaknesses in data protection and credentials. Data theft prevention has dropped to 3 percent, password cracking success rates have nearly doubled, and new threat groups are bypassing […]

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Photos: Black Hat USA 2025

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Photos: Black Hat USA 2025 2025-08-07 at 11:38 By Help Net Security Here’s a look inside Black Hat USA 2025. The featured vendors are: Stellar Cyber, Vonahi Security, Gurucul, Check Point, HackerOne, EasyDMARC, Elastic, Google, Tines, Veracode, VioletX, Pentera, Keep Aware, Oleria, SpyCloud, Trend Micro and Picus Security. The post Photos: Black Hat USA 2025

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Picus provides automated pentesting testing to help uncover critical risks

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Picus provides automated pentesting testing to help uncover critical risks 2024-12-11 at 11:18 By Industry News Picus Security announced new innovations to its Attack Path Validation (APV) product. The new Picus APV now offers security teams accurate, risk-free, and continuous automated penetration testing to uncover critical risks, while significantly reducing business disruptions and time spent

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Picus Security raises $45 million to help organizations reduce cyber risk

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Picus Security raises $45 million to help organizations reduce cyber risk 2024-09-19 at 15:31 By Industry News Picus Security announced it has closed a $45 million growth investment round led by Riverwood Capital with the participation of existing investor Earlybird Digital East Fund, bringing Picus’ total funds raised to $80 million. Picus has over 500

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Organizations fail to log 44% of cyber attacks, major exposure gaps remain

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Organizations fail to log 44% of cyber attacks, major exposure gaps remain 2024-08-02 at 07:31 By Help Net Security 40% of tested environments allowed attack paths that lead to domain admin access, according to Picus Security. Achieving domain admin access is particularly concerning because it is the highest level of access within an organization’s IT

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Picus Security introduces security validation for Kubernetes

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Picus Security introduces security validation for Kubernetes 2024-05-24 at 11:04 By Industry News Picus Security announced security validation for Kubernetes. This new capability allows Security and DevOps teams to realize the benefits of containers securely by proactively measuring and optimizing the resilience of clusters. It is the latest innovative addition to the Picus Security Validation

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Picus Security helps organizations reduce their threat exposure with AI-driven insights

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Picus Security helps organizations reduce their threat exposure with AI-driven insights 2024-04-03 at 16:31 By Industry News Picus Security announced Picus Numi AI. As the latest innovation of the Picus Security Validation Platform, this generative AI security analyst empowers any member of a security team to access critical, up-to-date information about their security posture to

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Understanding the tactics of stealthy hunter-killer malware

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Understanding the tactics of stealthy hunter-killer malware 2024-02-15 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Picus Security has revealed a rise in hunter-killer malware, highlighting a significant shift in adversaries’ capability to pinpoint and thwart advanced enterprise defenses, including next-gen firewalls, antivirus programs, and EDR systems. There was a 333% increase in malware that can actively

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Picus Security unveils new capabilities to give security teams full context of their attack surface

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Picus Security unveils new capabilities to give security teams full context of their attack surface 10/11/2023 at 15:01 By Industry News Picus Security announced the addition of Picus Attack Surface Validation and AI-driven threat profiling to the Picus Security Validation Platform. The new capabilities give security teams full context of their attack surface so they

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Flaw in Revolut payment systems exploited to steal $20 million

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Flaw in Revolut payment systems exploited to steal $20 million 10/07/2023 at 17:05 By Zeljka Zorz Organized criminal groups exploited a flaw in Revolut’s payment systems and made off with $20+ million of the company’s money, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing people with knowledge of the situation. Revolut’s cybersecurity troubles Revolut is a

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