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Cássio De Alcântara is Director, LATAM Sales at Rapid7. Across Latin America, organizations are embracing cloud, AI, and digital transformation to drive innovation and business growth. These technologies create new opportunities, but also introduce greater complexity and expanding attack surfaces. In this environment, security leaders are being asked to understand where risk exists across increasingly distributed environments and quickly eliminate blind spots like Shadow IT and Shadow AI – all without adding operational complexity. To help security leaders and practitioners address this complexity, Rapid7 is excited to announce a new strategic distribution partnership with Licencias OnLine (LOL) across Latin America. Helping organizations stay ahead of evolving threats In order to keep day-to-day business operations moving, organizations need security solutions that not only protect critical assets but also support innovation, regulatory compliance, and long-term digital transformation. Rapid7's AI-powered cybersecurity operations platform helps organizations strengthen cyber resilience by unifying continuous exposure management, AI-driven threat detection and response, and securit

OpenAI is strengthening safeguards for its most advanced AI models, citing growing risks as frontier systems gain more powerful cyber capabilities

The FBI warned that the RaaS operation has significantly enhanced its tactics, techniques and procedures, making it harder for defenders to counter

Martin explores how using crime script analysis to describe an attack with everyday language makes the situation accessible to non-technical audiences and identify points where the crime can be disrupted.

The UK’s privacy watchdog has called on police using facial recognition to follow its recommendations

Cifas data finds account takeover and identity fraud are driving a surge in fraud cases

When Cameron Curry discovered that his contract as a data analyst wasn't going to be renewed, he could have updated his LinkedIn profile. He could have started sending out his resume. But what the 27-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, did instead was turn to extortion. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

In August 2026, the actor TheHatman claimed to have stolen large volume of credentials from organizations' Microsoft Entra tenants. We provide guidance on mitigating large-scale credential attacks.

The security flaw in Snowflake’s GitHub Actions workflow had been missed by a GitHub Advanced Security scan, said a Wiz researcher