The Mandos Brief

Weekly cybersecurity market intelligence

Market pulse, proprietary signals from 9,000+ tracked products and 3,200+ vendors, and the CISO buyer take. Ten minutes, every Monday.

Three sections. Ten minutes. Every Monday.

The cybersecurity market, made readable in the time it takes to drink your coffee.

Market Pulse

The week's biggest cybersecurity funding rounds, M&A deals, and category shifts. With a "what it signals" column, so you know what each move means for your competitive landscape.

Mandos Signal

One proprietary data story per week, pulled from CybersecTools (9,000+ products tracked) and CybersecRadars (3,200+ vendors). Momentum gainers, hiring trends, category leadership shifts. Insights you cannot get anywhere else.

CISO Take

Thirteen years on the cybersecurity buyer side, translated into concrete advice on what would actually move a CISO this week and what would not.

What you get in every issue

Three sections. Built to make the cybersecurity market readable in ten minutes.

Section 1 / 3 min

Market Pulse

The week's biggest funding rounds, M&A deals, and category shifts. Each row tagged with what it signals for the competitive landscape.

Section 2 / 5 min

Mandos Signal

One proprietary data story per week from 9,000+ tracked products and 3,200+ vendors. Momentum, hiring, mindshare, category leadership. Insights you cannot get anywhere else.

Section 3 / 2 min

CISO Take

Thirteen years on the cybersecurity buyer side, translated into concrete advice on what would actually move a CISO this week and what would not.

Recent briefs

Browse the archive of past issues.

Newsletter mandos cybersecurity newsletter for leader
Jul 20, 2025 9 min read

Brief #113: NVIDIA AI Containers Escaped, GitHub Malware Distribution, CISOs Are Giving Up

Critical NVIDIA vulnerability enables container escape with 3-line Dockerfile. Amazon launches enterprise AI agent platform. Scattered Spider causes $592M damage across 11 attacks.

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Jul 13, 2025 9 min read

Brief #112: McDonald's 64M Data Breach, LLM Agent Attacks, AI Threatens Junior Roles

Major breaches hit McDonald's hiring platform and Louis Vuitton UK. Researchers discover systematic LLM agent vulnerabilities.

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Jul 6, 2025 9 min read

Brief #111: 12-Year Sudo Vulnerability, Ahold Delhaize 2.2M Breach, Ransomware Recovery Costs Drop 44%

Attackers increasingly weaponize legitimate tools in 84% of incidents. Ransomware recovery costs plummet to $1.53M. Financial sector faces strategic DDoS campaigns with 23% spike in app-layer attacks.

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Jun 29, 2025 9 min read

Brief #110: Microsoft 365 Exploit, 8M Developers At Risk, 47% Fear Cyber

Major development platforms compromised via extensions marketplace. AI systems vulnerable to data exfiltration attacks. Global leaders rank cyber as top business threat.

Newsletter cybersecurity newsletter mandos by nikoloz kokhreidze covering week 25 of 2025
Jun 22, 2025 9 min read

Brief #109: Cloudflare 7.3 Tbps DDoS Record, Salesforce Config Risks, 6x Increase in Security Incidents

Cloudflare mitigates largest DDoS attack ever recorded. Salesforce Industry Cloud exposes 20 configuration vulnerabilities. Cyentia IRIS 2025 Report Reveals Sixfold Increase in Security Incidents with Median Losses Rising to $3 Million

Newsletter mandos cybersecurity newsletter covering week 24 of 2025
Jun 15, 2025 9 min read

Brief #108: Apple Zero-Click Exploit, Microsoft Entra Breach, Cloud Database Exposure

Zero-click iPhone exploit hits journalists. 80K+ Microsoft accounts compromised. Enterprise AI governance fails across industries.

Newsletter mandos newsletter for cybersecurity leaders and professionals
Jun 8, 2025 9 min read

Brief #107: Salesforce Data Breach, CISO Budget Cuts, Unit 42 AI Attacks

Palo Alto's AI executes ransomware in 25 minutes. Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs deliver malware while Meta automates security reviews.

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Jun 1, 2025 9 min read

Brief #106: GitHub AI Exploit, TikTok Malware Campaign, Zscaler Acquires Red Canary

GitHub MCP exploit allows AI agent data exfiltration. DoD operates 50+ software factories delivering rapid deployment. CISOs earn $532K average compensation.

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May 25, 2025 9 min read

Brief #105: npm Package Attacks, Cybersecurity Offshoring Trend, AWS Strands Agents

Socket discovers 60 malicious npm packages exfiltrating network data. Meta releases open-source LlamaFirewall to protect AI agents. FBI reports record $16.6B in cybercrime losses.

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