Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Digital Extortionists Try Recruiting Insiders, Email BarragesCollective efforts to bolster cybersecurity defenses have been taking a big bite out of ransomware groups' earnings, leading groups to reach for new strategies, including social engineering, supply chain attacks, extortion services and bribing insiders, warn incident response experts.

Barclays' Becky Pinkard on Regulation, Containment, Leadership and AIRegulatory pressure has made cyber resilience an operational necessity. Becky Pinkard, managing director, global cyber operations at Barclays, discusses how social engineering, containment strategies, leadership practices and automation shape stronger defenses.

Social Engineering Moves Mirror Nation-State Groups' Tactics, Researchers SayThe Black Basta ransomware group has been refining its social engineering tactics to amass more victims despite escalating law enforcement disruptions, together with a shift to more "strategic, long-term planning" that security experts said suggests Russian state ties.