A survey by Naoris Protocol highlights growing concerns among IT leaders over cybersecurity vulnerabilities, indicating that a shift may be needed toward decentralized infrastructure for resilience and security, ComputerWeekly reports.Conducted in October 2024, the survey interviewed 100 IT directors from major firms across the US, UK, EU, and APAC, revealing that 70% view network resilience as a top priority. Centralized security models create single points of failure, while weak endpoint detection and cloud concentration heighten risks. Decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) are gaining traction, with 73% of IT leaders calling them extremely important for cybersecurity. DePIN leverages blockchain to transform infrastructure into secure validator nodes, reducing threats and enhancing security. AI and blockchain-driven defenses are also valued, with 42% emphasizing AI for real-time threat detection and 34% highlighting blockchain validation. Naoris Protocol CEO David Carvalho warns of a critical tipping point, urging enterprises to decentralize infrastructure to counter AI-driven cyber threats.
Threat actors have exploited 159 CVEs during the first three months of 2025, compared with 151 during the last quarter of 2024, with almost a third of vulnerabilities leveraged in attacks within a day of their disclosure, according to The Hacker News.
Attacks involving ransomware were discovered by NCC Group to have totaled 600 in March which is 32% lower than in February but 46% higher than the same month last year with the month-to-month decline believed by NCC Head of Threat Intelligence Matt Hull to be a "red herring" after the recent surge in intrusions, Infosecurity Magazine reports.
Cybernews reports that BreachForums had its supposed Thursday comeback fall through, with its latest owner "Anastasia" selling the notorious cybercrime marketplace's backup database and source code for only $2,000 as they claimed yet another crackdown by the FBI after the website was disrupted by the pro-Palestinian hacktivist operation Dark Storm Team twice within a week.
