AI-Driven Fake Retail Sites: A Worrying New Frontier for North Carolina Consumers A Threat That Feels All Too Real Imagine browsing for the season’s must-have gifts from the comfort of your home in Raleigh or Charlotte, only to realize you’ve just entered your credit card into a website that wasn’t [...]
Is Your Business Training AI How To Hack You? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly shifted from futuristic promise to everyday necessity. Whether it’s used for customer service, document drafting, or complex data analysis, AI is helping businesses become more efficient and competitive. Yet, this convenience comes with an often-overlooked risk: [...]
Ransomware Activity Surges in Q1 2025: A Critical Wake-Up Call for North Carolina SMBs Why Q1 2025 Changed the Cybersecurity Landscape The first quarter of 2025 has marked a turning point in the global battle against ransomware. Across industries, geographies, and business sizes, ransomware activity surged at a pace that [...]
NASCAR Data Breach via Medusa Ransomware: A Wake-Up Call for North Carolina Businesses In the world of business, few things are as devastating as a loss of trust. Customers and clients trust you to protect their information, keep transactions secure, and ensure business continuity. But what happens when even iconic [...]
Why Phishing Attacks Spike in August The “Summer Hack-tion Movie” Nobody Asked For Ah, August in North Carolina. The cicadas are singing, sweet tea is flowing, and humidity levels are high enough to make your laptop sweat. Half your team is sneaking off to the Outer Banks, parents are panic-buying [...]
Marks & Spencer Restores Services After DragonForce Attack: A Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call for Global Retail For 15 long weeks, millions of Marks & Spencer customers found themselves locked out of one of Britain’s most trusted shopping lifelines. The culprit wasn’t a warehouse strike or supply chain disruption—it was a ruthless [...]
UK Bans Ransom Payments: A Story of Risk, Resilience, and Reinvention Imagine waking up one morning to find your city council’s entire IT system locked. Emergency services can’t access vital data. Hospitals face delays in treating patients. Schools are unable to retrieve student records. A ransom note flashes across every [...]
$19M Real Estate Phishing Scam in NYC: A Wake-Up Call for the Property Industry Imagine overseeing millions of dollars’ worth of luxury real estate in the heart of New York City. Deals close daily, payments move across digital wires, and trust is placed in every transaction. Then, with a single [...]
New SonicWall VPN Zero-Day Exploited: A Deep Dive Story by a Senior Technical Storyteller “Within minutes, the fortress evaporated, and everything we trusted vanished in a flash.” That’s how one security engineer described what unfolded this summer when a suspected zero-day in SonicWall VPNs exploded into a wave of ransomware [...]
New Cybersecurity Law Now in Effect in New York State Imagine a world where ransomware attacks happen—and governments know immediately. In New York, that world is now a reality. Governor Hochul’s bold and sweeping “new cybersecurity law” has officially taken effect, ushering in a new era of relentless preparedness and [...]
Hackers Are Logging In – Not Breaking In What if the greatest threat to your business wasn’t a fortress being stormed—but an invited guest using your own key?That’s right. Watch Out Hackers Are Logging In – Not Breaking In paints a stark reality: cybercriminals aren’t smashing walls—they’re simply walking in [...]
Google Cloud Warns Threat Intelligence Tools Understaffed If your cybersecurity team feels like they’re drowning in a sea of alerts without enough hands to bail water, you’re not alone—and Google Cloud is sounding the alarm. A recent benchmark report from Google Cloud and Forrester reveals that cybersecurity operations worldwide are [...]