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Threat Intelligence

ShinyHunters Claimed It Broke Into ReliaQuest. The Reality Is More Complicated.

A cybersecurity company's own employee fell for a fake login page, handing criminals limited access. What happened next is actually a story about defences holding.

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Identity & Access

Okta Beats Earnings Forecasts as Companies Rush to Secure AI Agents

The identity security firm raised its annual outlook after a stronger-than-expected quarter, with demand rising from businesses trying to control who, and what, can access their systems.

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Identity & Access

ShinyHunters phoned a ReliaQuest employee, and one of them fell for it

The security firm says a vishing call led to a view-only peek at its Okta dashboard, but device-trust rules stopped anything worse.

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Threat Intelligence

21 Cybersecurity Companies Changed Hands in July 2026

From a billion-dollar identity security deal to a bank buying a British consultancy, July was a busy month for cybersecurity acquisitions. Here is what each deal means in plain English.

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Threat Intelligence

Hedge Fund Vishing Attacks Traced to UNC6671, the Group Behind the BlackFile Brand

Google's threat researchers say one core crew is running help-desk phone scams that have hit Point72, Citadel, Two Sigma and Millennium, then stealing data straight from their cloud accounts.

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Identity & Access

Okta Is Buying Security Firm Permiso to Catch Identity-Based Attacks

The deal would push Okta beyond managing who can log in and into spotting when a legitimate login is being used to do something it shouldn't.

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Vulnerabilities

An 11-byte message can knock OpenSSL servers offline, researchers warn

A newly disclosed flaw nicknamed HollowByte lets attackers exhaust memory on servers running vulnerable versions of OpenSSL, the software that secures most of the web.

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Identity & Access

Criminals Are Calling Your Staff and Stealing Microsoft 365 Logins in Real Time

A hacking group is phoning employees, sending them to fake Microsoft Entra ID login pages, and quietly registering their own passkeys before anyone notices. Okta has the details.

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Identity & Access

0ktapus Phishing Campaign Hits 130 Companies, Compromising Nearly 10,000 Accounts

A phishing campaign exploiting Okta's authentication system has breached 9,931 accounts across 130 organizations, with Twilio, Cloudflare and DoorDash among the victims.

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AI Security

Anthropic Adds 28 Enterprise Security Integrations to Claude, Including CrowdStrike and Okta

The AI company is wiring Claude into the core of enterprise security stacks, from endpoint detection to identity management.

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