Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Steve Lenderman of isolved on Cross-Device Challenges, User Adoption StrategiesSteve Lenderman, head of fraud prevention at isolved, discusses the shift to passwordless authentication, addressing adoption challenges across multiple devices, the link between cybersecurity and fraud prevention, and how behavioral analytics will shape identity verification in 2026 and beyond.

Experts Recommend Multimodal Biometrics as Mitigation Strategy for AI-Based AttacksWhile AI has spurred the growth of authentication controls, it has also enabled voice cloning and video deepfakes to become much more convincing. Fraud fighters are looking at adopting a multifactor authentication system using multimodal biometrics to fight against deepfakes.

The breach was carried out with stolen Citrix credentials for an account that lacked multifactor authentication. Attackers went undetected for days, and Change's backup strategy failed.

Device Bound Session Credentials said to render cookie theft useless Google reckons that cookie theft is a problem for users, and is seeking to address it with a mechanism to tie authentication data to a specific device, rendering any stolen cookies useless.…

CISOs are incorporating biometrics as part of their multifactor authentication strategies. This is what they should be thinking about during implementation.

Biometric measurements should be part of any multifactor authentication (MFA) strategy, but choose your methods carefully: Some only establish trust at the device level.