This Week's Top Five Stories in Cyber

Stryker Cyberattack: The Case to Secure Microsoft Intune

When pro-Iranian threat actors struck US medical giant Stryker last week, it became immediately apparent how loopholes in enterprise endpoint management open the doors to threat actors. 

The healthcare and medical device sector is currently under sustained assault from threat actors who have pivoted away from complex exploit chains towards identity-centric attack vectors, targeting access management systems and administrative control planes.

These groups are deploying well-established tactics against the sector, including credential phishing campaigns, in which cyber criminals impersonate trusted entities through email, SMS or voice channels to manipulate their victims.

These campaigns are accompanied by the deployment of previously compromised credentials and the abuse of inadequately secured remote access infrastructure.

CrowdStrike and Nebius: Securing AI Cloud Infrastructure

AI, positioned as a gamechanger in technology, is seeing massive investments and rampant adoption across the global economy. However, the adoption of AI is making companies far more vulnerable to cyber attacks.

In an effort to combat this, CrowdStrike and Nebius have announced a wide-reaching global partnership designed to bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity into the rapidly expanding world of AI. 

The agreement will see CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform integrated directly into Nebius AI Cloud, creating a unified security layer for organisations building and scaling AI systems.

As businesses race to deploy AI across operations, the challenge of securing these environments has become increasingly urgent. 

“Nebius is building a new class of AI cloud platform for AI innovation,” says Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike.

CrowdStrike & NVIDIA: Pioneering AI Agents for Cyber Defence

NVIDIA's annual GTC conference in San Jose birthed a series of major AI partnerships – some focused on the field of cyber.  

The most prominent saw cybersecurity leader CrowdStrike and chip giant NVIDIA deepening their partnership with two announcements that signal how AI is reshaping digital defence. 

Together, the companies are focusing on securing autonomous AI agents while speeding up threat investigations for overstretched security teams.

“AI reasoning models and synthetic data are transforming how enterprises operationalise intelligence,” says Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI Products at NVIDIA. 

Why Network and Perimeter Security are Back in Cyber Focus

When one door locks, attackers try the window. 

Ever since cyberspace was in existence, threat actors have been coming up with unique ways to exploit weaknesses and digitally "break in". 

This persistent nature of threats is evident in the global cybersecurity company N-able’s State of the SOC Report. 

N-able’s SOC processed an average of two alerts per minute between March and December 2025 – this shocking scale of which is enough to see how alert velocity has now outpaced the capacity of traditional, human-driven SOCs.

Drawing on real-world investigations from its Adlumin Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service, the report paints a picture of an increasingly complex threat landscape. 

How Cybercriminals can use Your Devices to Commit Crime

Cybercriminals are often a hidden threat, lurking in unseen corners of the internet. 

One tactic that allows them to keep their real identities concealed when engaging in nefarious activities is the use of residential proxies.  

Residential proxies recently bubbled up into focus after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a public service announcement to raise awareness about the dangers they pose and steps the public can take to protect their devices. 

Cybercriminals use these proxies to hide their true identities and locations by routing traffic through home and small business networks, making their illicit online activity appear more legitimate.

“Residential proxies continue to be exploited by bad actors for everything from large‑scale fraud to powering DDoS attacks,” writes Noopur Davis, CISO at Comcast on her LinkedIn.