Philippine AML Council launches casino probe amid flood project corruption scandal | AGB Summary The Philippine Anti‑Money Laundering Council (AMLC) has opened an investigation into casino transactions after reports that former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineers allegedly channelled more than PHP1 billion through 13 casinos while overseeing dubious flood control projects in […]
Blast Radius of Salesloft Drift Attacks Remains Unclear Summary Between 8–18 August, threat actor UNC6395 exploited Salesloft’s Drift by stealing OAuth and refresh tokens from its Salesforce integration. The stolen tokens enabled lateral movement into customer Salesforce instances and resulted in numerous downstream disclosures from organisations such as Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Proofpoint and […]
Czech Warning Highlights China Stealing User Data Summary The Czech Republic’s National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB) issued a warning about products and services that transfer system and user data to the People’s Republic of China or are remotely administered from there. The advisory highlights risks that data routed to Chinese territories or entities […]
Phishing Empire Runs Undetected on Google, Cloudflare Summary Researchers at Deep Specter Research uncovered a multi-year, industrial-scale phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation that ran largely unnoticed on public cloud infrastructure, primarily Google Cloud and Cloudflare. The campaign abused expired, high-trust domains and used cloaking techniques to present cloned, brand-authentic pages to search engines while serving malicious or […]
ISC2 Aims to Bridge DFIR Skills Gap With New Certificate Summary ISC2 has launched the Threat Handling Foundations Certificate — a four-course programme intended to tighten digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) capability across organisations. The offering delivers hands-on training on building an effective DFIR programme, fundamentals of digital forensics, incident management and network threat […]
Chinese Hackers Game Google to Boost Gambling Sites Summary Acybercrime operation ESET calls “GhostRedirector” has been compromising Windows web servers to install malware and a malicious native IIS module named Gamshen that injects backlinks when search-engine crawlers (like Googlebot) visit compromised sites. The campaign — active since at least August 2024 — has hit dozens […]
Why Marketers Are the First to Bet Big on Agentic AI Summary Agentic AI has moved from theory into practical use, rapidly reshaping marketing and customer experience by embedding large language models into autonomous workflows that can act, decide and adapt with minimal human oversight. Marketing and sales are the leading adopters — far ahead […]
Why Great CMOs Act Like Orchestrators, Not Megaphones Summary The article argues that modern marketing is no longer a peripheral function but the central glue that aligns product, sales and strategy. Great CMOs act as orchestrators — they embed marketing early in product conversations, influence without formal authority, coordinate cross-functional work, and design systems that […]
CX Leaders Bet on AI, Yet Trust and Transparency Remain the Wildcards Summary The CMSWire research finds CX leaders in the US are heavily leaning on AI to drive personalisation, with marketing campaigns and mobile apps seen as the biggest beneficiaries. Adoption jumped sharply year‑on‑year (extensive use rose from 11% to 32%), and social media […]
Is It Digital Transformation 3.0 or AI Transformation 1.0? Summary Frans Riemersma argues that we’re not merely entering a later phase of digital transformation — AI represents a distinct era. Where Digital Transformation 1.0 focused on internal efficiency and 2.0 on customer-facing systems, this new phase treats language and intent as primary data and positions […]
