Voice is still central to business outcomes -- from banks confirming fraud alerts, to hospitals coordinating care, to retailers following up on customer inquiries. But legitimate calls that originate outside the U.S. and use U.S.-based numbers are increasingly and inadvertently mislabeled as spam or blocked outright due to FCC rules and fragmented verification frameworks. The result: missed connections, wasted resources and new openings for fraud. In this Q&A with Peter Ford, Executive Vice...

As the cybersecurity industry closes the books on 2025, the year is already solidifying around a familiar but unsettling conclusion: attackers didn’t need radically new malware to cause outsized damage. They needed people, timing, and a growing catalog of quietly catastrophic infrastructure flaws. That’s the throughline emerging from a year-end review by incident response specialists at LevelBlue , which absorbed digital forensics heavyweight Stroz Friedberg earlier this year. Their findings...

A new malware campaign dissected by the Securonix  Threat Research team underscores an uncomfortable truth for defenders: some of the most effective modern intrusions still rely on decades-old Windows scripting, dressed up with just enough obfuscation and in-memory trickery to stay ahead of automated detection. Tracked as SHADOW#REACTOR , the operation delivers a familiar end goal—a fully functional Remcos remote access trojan—but the path it takes to get there is anything but simple. Instead...