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🔍 Critical Cybersecurity Intelligence Roundup

April 24 - April 30, 2025 From human vulnerabilities to AI-powered attacks — here's what your peers are tracking that you might be missing.

⤷ Human Remains the Weakest Link Social engineering succeeds despite tech advances — even Fortune 500s lost $100M+ to basic phishing schemes.

⤷ Ransomware Doubles Down 96% of attacks now include data theft before encryption — double extortion is the new standard.

⤷ SaaS Security Confidence Gap 79% of orgs claim strong SaaS security while 50% admit employees adopt without oversight — perception vs. reality.

⤷ Platform Consolidation Accelerates CISOs cutting vendor count, not budgets — complexity driving the shift to integrated security platforms.

⤷ AI Enhances Attack Sophistication Attackers leverage AI for personalized phishing, voice cloning, and automated campaigns at unprecedented scale.

⤷ Maritime Infrastructure at Risk Legacy systems suddenly connected to networks create massive blind spots — GPS spoofing can disable entire ports.

⤷ Non-Human Identities Explode For every human user, 10 machine identities exist with excessive permissions — the invisible attack surface grows.

⤷ These aren't theoretical risks — they're active threat vectors reshaping security strategies today.

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