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Last week, studies underscored AI's impact on DevOps and how it was leveraged to breach an AWS environment in just eight minutes, while boards were urged to pay more attention to ERP systems after Jaguar Land Rover suffered a costly cyberattack last year. And Hydrolix's Field CTO offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Super Bowl.
Ransomware Aimed at ERP Will Make a Splash in 2026
Boards of directors have long understand that they have to take responsibility for cybersecurity risk, but that oversight needs to extend to enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) after cyberattacks like the one executed by ShinyHunters that cost Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) at 24 percent decline in revenue, a $1.2 billion decline in earnings and a 43.3 percent drop in wholesale sales volume. With more to come. A Google Cloud Security report predicts the emergence ofransomware targeting ERP system and other critical enterprise applications in 2026.
AI Is Accelerating DevOps
AI has its fingers in everything, now it’s accelerating DevOps, becoming the default way to write code and driving the same kind of disruption as cloud infrastructure did several years ago. But traditional AppSec and DevSecOps can’t keep up. "AI is behind some form of all software development that is happening today," SC Media cites Snyk Field CTO Clinton Herget as saying during a webcast. "If you think your developers are not using any kind of AI to build their software, it's just that they're not telling you about it."
In Eight Minutes, Hackers Breached AWS Environment
Bad actors armed with AI were able to breach an AWS environment last year in just eight minutes. That scary fast attack—using found credential—had the attackers first gaining access so they could get administrative privileges, threat researchers at Sysdig say. An attack late last year on a company’s cloudenvironment is the latest example of how threat actors are using AI technologies to accelerate their malicious operations. Armed with found credentials, the hackers were able to move from gaining initial access to obtaining administrative privileges in the Amazon Web Services (AWS)environment in fewer than 10 minutes, according to a report from threat researchers with Sysdig. “The attack stood out not only for its speed, but also for multiple indicators that suggest the threat actor leveraged large language models (LLMs) throughout the operation to automate reconnaissance, generate malicious code, and make real-time decisions,” Security Boulevard cited Sysdig’s Alessandro Brucato and Michael Clark as writing.
Game On: Hydrolix Field CTO Karen Johnson Offers Behind-the-Scene Look at Running a Super Bowl
While all eyes are trained on the gridiron during the Super Bowl, much of the action goes on behind the scenes to create the optimal viewing experience for fans. Like the athletes on the field, the team at Hydrolix, which ran real-time, consolidated logging across multiple content delivery networks (CDNs) to support Fox’s content delivery during last year’s big game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, had to be at peak performance. Think it hurts to get hit by a 300-lb linebacker? Try being slammed by more than 200 terabytes of data coming in. That’s what Hydrolix had to handle during the 2025 Super Bowl. The company already had lots of experience managing largelivestreaming events, including a previous Super Bowl hosted by Paramount. The observability platform ingested, stored, and analyzed massive CDN log data, consolidating records from four CDNs into a single logical table.
Groundhog Day: Cybersecurity Teams Keep Seeing the Same Shadows
Sometimes cybersecurity is a lot like Groundhog Day. The movie, that is, not the holiday. It repeats itself with predictable results. On a frigid day in the Northeast after Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, scurried back into the warmth of his den, and left the people outside to grapple with six more weeks of winter (brr). Tech-Channels looks at five cybersecurity issues that seem to be on repeat.
US Regulators Grant Bank Charters for Five Fintech Firms in Controversial Move
In one of the most significant regulatory events for the US fintech sector in 2025, US banking regulators have granted conditional approval bank charter applications for five nonbank fintechs. These weren’t full traditional banking charters (which allow taking insured deposits), but rather national trust bank charters—a type of banking license that allows certain banking functions including custody of assets and fiduciary services. Among the recipients were Ripple National Trust Bank and the First National Digital Currency Bank which, among the others, will join the approximately 60 other national trust banks that are currently supervised bythe Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). While broadly welcomed by the fintech sector, which has been struggling to obtain federal banking charters for years, the move also triggered significant backlash from community banking advocates and other regulators.
