5 Cyber Trends to Expect in 2024

Wiz Research analyzes NordStellar logs to map credentials harvested by infostealers like Lumma and RedLine, showing how stolen keys and tokens unlock AWS, Azure, GitHub, and AI platforms.

Wiz earned Leader status in Forrester's Q3 2026 Proactive Security Platforms Wave, scoring 5.0/5.0 on 8 of 21 criteria, including cloud visibility, exposure validation, and remediation augmentation.

Explores hosting red team phishing pages and payloads on Azure services under Microsoft's trusted domains, using their good reputation to slip past web filters as domain fronting fades.

Reviews the Georgia Tech 2013 cyber threat forecast: cloud botnets, mobile browser and wallet flaws, malware obfuscation, counterfeit hardware in the supply chain, and healthcare data risks.

After a dull conference, the author concludes cloud pentesting is fundamentally the same as traditional testing: virtualized or shared, the underlying technology and security controls hardly change.

I recently had the opportunity to review an article by Michael Koploy of Software Advice titled "HHS Data Tells the True Story of HIPAA Violations in the Cloud".