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The latest news and analysis for cybersecurity professionals

20 Leaders Who Built the CISO Era: 2 Decades of Change As part of Dark Reading's 20th anniversary special coverage, we profile the CISOs, founders, researchers, criminals, and policymakers who rewrote the enterprise risk playbook.

It’s Patch Tuesday for Microsoft & Not a Zero-Day In Sight It's the first time in two years with no zero-days. But with 137 flaws to patch, including nine critical ones, admins still have plenty of work to do.

Foxconn Attack Highlights Manufacturing’s Cyber Crisis A Nitrogen ransomware attack on Foxconn's North American facilities is one of 600 hits on manufacturers this year, as gangs increasingly target the sector for its low tolerance for downtime.

AI Drives Cybersecurity Investments, Widening ‘Valley of Death’ In a role reversal, investment dollars in security startups exceeded the value of mergers and acquisitions in 1Q26 by more than $1 billion, a rare occurrence.

Tables Turn on ‘The Gentlemen’ RaaS Gang With Data Leak An OPSEC failure provides a window into what helped the ransomware group rise: a generous affiliate model, opportunistic TTPs, and an effective organizational structure.

Checkbox Assessments Aren’t Fit to Measure to Risk [From THE EDGE]: Security governance needs to be more than an annual compliance exercise. New companies are emerging to address risk-management gaps in current audit tools.

LatAm Vibe Hackers Generate Custom Hacking Tools on the Fly [From DR GLOBAL]: In the latest evolution of automated cyberattacks, threat actors heavily leveraged AI agents to support campaigns against entities in Mexico and Brazil.

‘Dirty Frag’ Exploit Poised to Blow Up on Enterprise Linux Distros The privilege escalation vulnerability, which is similar to other Linux flaws like Copy Fail and Dirty Pipe, may already be under limited exploitation.

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Tech Can’t Stop These Threats — Your People Can Security controls can do only so much. Here are four attacks where your employees are usually your first, and only, line of cyber defense.

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