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Sequretek Our motto as an organization is to look at simplifying security in the areas we have chosen for ourselves – i.e. endpoints, end users and organisations.

Why spend hours sifting through endless reports when you could be getting your threat intel over your morning coffee? Im...
27/05/2026

Why spend hours sifting through endless reports when you could be getting your threat intel over your morning coffee? Imagine a world where critical security insights come to you as easily as reading your daily newspaper.

With Sequretek Times, you get the Daily Threat of the Day delivered in bite-sized pieces that matter. Dive deep into attacker behavior and gain the clarity you need for precise impact assessmentsβ€”all streamlined for your convenience.

It's time to upgrade your morning routine and safeguard your network with ease. Ready to keep your team informed and ahead of the game every day? Click the link below to get started! πŸš€

https://threatportal.sequretek.com/sequretek-times/127

26/05/2026

Is your bank keeping pace with machine-speed threats?

In 2026, the stakes are clear:

- πŸ’° $5.56M β€” average cost of a financial sector breach
- πŸ”— 48% of breaches involve third-party supply chain risks (up 60% in one year)
- ⚠️ 31% of breaches start with unpatched vulnerabilities
- πŸ• 43 days β€” median time to patch a known vulnerability

DORA compliance now mandates third-party audit rights and full Shadow AI visibility β€” operational resilience is a regulatory baseline, not a differentiator.

Ready to move from exposure to confidence? Sequretek is built for this moment.

Some gave everything so the rest of us could have something worth protecting.On Memorial Day, we remember them with last...
26/05/2026

Some gave everything so the rest of us could have something worth protecting.

On Memorial Day, we remember them with lasting gratitude.

One arrest. One breach. Both happened this week, and both have lessons your team needs to hear.Good News:Authorities in ...
25/05/2026

One arrest. One breach. Both happened this week, and both have lessons your team needs to hear.

Good News:Authorities in the U.S. and Canada arrested the 23-year-old behind KimWolf, a DDoS-for-hire botnet that infected over one million IoT devices and recorded attack traffic of nearly 30 terabits per second. The operator, known online as "Dort," issued more than 25,000 attack commands before being caught. The arrest is part of a broader international operation that began disrupting the network back in March 2026.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/22/kimwolf-ddos-botnet-administrator-arrested/

Bad News: GitHub lost approximately 3,800 internal source code repositories after a developer installed a backdoored VS Code extension. The malicious update was live for just 18 minutes, but that was enough for TeamPCP's worm to scrape credentials from CI/CD runner memory and exfiltrate the data. It's now listed on BreachForums for $50,000. The same worm has compromised OpenAI, Grafana, Mistral AI, and the European Commission.

Source: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317057/20260523/500-poisoned-packages-hundreds-companies-teampcps-worm-just-reached-github.htm

What This Means for All of Us: Rotate your CI/CD tokens now. Short-lived, scoped credentials stop worms like this one from spreading. Long-lived tokens sitting in runner memory are the vulnerability.

Share this with your IT team. Then ask them when they last audited your pipeline credentials.

When a leading North American lifestyle brand needed more than alerts, they needed answers, they chose Percept XDR & NG ...
23/05/2026

When a leading North American lifestyle brand needed more than alerts, they needed answers, they chose Percept XDR & NG SIEM.

The results speak for themselves:

βœ… 100% security alert processing
βœ… ~97% incident closure rate
βœ… Escalations below 0.3%
βœ… AI-driven risk prioritization to cut noise and eliminate false positives
βœ… Full visibility across on-premises and cloud environments

Retail is a high-stakes target. Fragmented tools, alert fatigue, and blind spots across hybrid environments leave brands exposed. Sequretek unified their security operations - seamless EDR integration, centralized visibility, and AI that works before the threat escalates.

This is what a mature SOC looks like in practice. Explore the full transformation story in the post.

Read the case study here: https://www.sequretek.com/resources/case-study/Retail%20Therapy%20Meets%20Threat%20Therapy%20Through%20Unified%20Visibility

22/05/2026

Zero-day alert. Microsoft Exchange Server OWA is under active attack, no permanent patch exists yet.

CVE-2026-42897 (CVSS 8.1) is hitting on-premises Exchange 2016, 2019 & SE hard via a critical XSS flaw. Temporary mitigations are available but your team needs to act now before threat actors get in first.

πŸ”— Full advisory + mitigation steps from Sequretek Labs: https://www.sequretek.com/resources/threat-advisories/Actively%20Exploited%20XSS%20Vulnerability%20in%20%20Microsoft%20Exchange%20Server%20OWA

πŸ›‘οΈ Simplify Security. Stay ahead of threats.

Government systems aren't just being targeted β€” they're being studied. 🎯State-sponsored actors, AI-driven intrusions, in...
22/05/2026

Government systems aren't just being targeted β€” they're being studied. 🎯

State-sponsored actors, AI-driven intrusions, insider risks β€” today's threats are built to find the gaps your current defenses weren't designed to stop.

And with the average public sector breach costing $2.86M, the stakes couldn't be higher. πŸ’Έ

The real question isn't if an attack will come. It's whether your security posture is ready when it does. πŸ”

No fluff. Just the intelligence and direction government decision-makers need. πŸ“‹

πŸ‘‡ Download the factsheet via the link in bio β€” or DM us to connect with our team and see how Sequretek helps government organizations close security gaps, strengthen compliance, and take control of their threat environment.

πŸ”— Read more : https://www.sequretek.com/resources/factsheet/Executive%20Risk%2C%20Real%20Costs

Pankit Desai, our CEO & Co-Founder, is featured in The Week discussing OpenAI's Daybreak. πŸ‘‡His perspective cuts to the c...
21/05/2026

Pankit Desai, our CEO & Co-Founder, is featured in The Week discussing OpenAI's Daybreak. πŸ‘‡

His perspective cuts to the core of what makes this platform significant: "What makes Daybreak worth watching is that it embeds itself in the DevOps cycle. You are building resilience by design, securing the codebase from day one rather than patching after the fact."

Read the article and share your views.

https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2026/05/20/openais-daybreak-what-makes-chatgpt-makers-new-launch-revolutionary.html

OpenAI’s Daybreak is an AI-powered tool designed to accelerate cyber defence and continuously secure software

Today at 2:00 PM IST, Pankit Desai, our CEO & Co-Founder, takes the stage at a Business Standard webinar on "Cybersecuri...
21/05/2026

Today at 2:00 PM IST, Pankit Desai, our CEO & Co-Founder, takes the stage at a Business Standard webinar on "Cybersecurity in the Time of Mythos."

The session cuts through the noise around modern cyber threats. It is built for security leaders who want clarity over complexity.

Register now using the link. Share this with anyone on your team who should be in the room.

https://www.business-standard.com/webinars/bs-dialogue/cybersecurity-in-the-time-of-mythos-8

"Who owns custody of your data when you expose your most sensitive environments to these tools?" πŸ‘‡Pankit Desai, CEO & Co...
20/05/2026

"Who owns custody of your data when you expose your most sensitive environments to these tools?" πŸ‘‡

Pankit Desai, CEO & Co-Founder of Sequretek, is featured in The New Indian Express discussing OpenAI's Daybreak platform. He acknowledges the value of continuous embedded scanning while raising a key question about data custody that security leaders should factor into their evaluations.

Read the full feature and share it with your security team.

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-daybreak-ai-cybersecurity-anthropic-mythos-10697672/

OpenAI has introduced Daybreak, a new AI cybersecurity platform that can help companies find software weaknesses, detect cyber threats, and fix security issues faster using AI.

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