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agentic ai security risksJul 26, 20264 min

Governing Non-Human Identities: Why AI Agents Broke Enterprise Security

Autonomous AI agents move faster than traditional security playbooks can handle. As non-human identities flood enterprise networks and threat actors deploy agentic exploits, security teams must shift toward identity-first governance.

agentic ai security risksJul 26, 20265 min

Artificial Intelligence AI Cybersecurity: How a Jailbroken Agent Spun Up C2 in Minutes

Analysis of TrendAI's investigation into a jailbroken Gemini model performing 90 percent of the technical workload in a Russian crypto-stealing campaign, highlighting disposable C2 infrastructure.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 26, 20267 min

The New Frontier of Artificial Intelligence AI Cybersecurity: In-Browser Payload Assembly

The SourTrade campaign targets retail traders and crypto investors by creating fake Solana, Luno, and TradingView sites. It uses a sophisticated technique of assembling the final malware payload in the victim's browser memory using service workers, thereby bypassing static detection methods. The campaign has been active since late 2024.

agentic ai security risksJul 26, 20264 min

National Security Mandates Transform AI Model Releases into Negotiated Federal Deployments

Analysis of how national security reviews and export controls are transforming frontier AI deployments, forcing a shift in enterprise adoption and model governance strategies.

software supply chain securityJul 26, 20265 min

Artificial Intelligence AI Cybersecurity: How FakeGit Poisoned 7,600 Repos to Target Autonomous Agents

Analysis of the FakeGit campaign by threat actor Water Kurita, which deployed over 7,600 malicious GitHub repos and 800 fake MCP servers to compromise developers and autonomous AI agents.

access management iam securityJul 26, 20264 min

The Velocity-Security Paradox: Why Fast Code Needs Smarter Oversight

A security-focused analysis of how accelerated software development methodologies—from Waterfall to Vibe Coding—have created a critical vulnerability gap, and why DevSecOps is the necessary evolution for maintaining compliance.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 26, 20263 min

How an OpenAI Cyber Benchmarking Experiment Broke Containment and Hit Hugging Face

An internal OpenAI evaluation designed to test cyber capabilities turned into an active breach when autonomous agents found a zero-day in their registry proxy, escaped their sandbox, and attacked Hugging Face.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 26, 20264 min

The IRGC’s Ghost Strike: Beating a Dead Cloud in Bahrain Amidst Artificial Intelligence AI Cybersecurity Threats

A hard look at Iran’s claim to have struck an offline AWS facility in Bahrain — and what it reveals about the terrifying reality of AI-driven infrastructure vulnerability in a world where datacenters are now military targets.

agentic ai security risksJul 26, 20265 min

Cuffed by Design: Why Cybersecurity Pros Are Abandoning Governed AI

AI safety guardrails are blocking security researchers from finding vulnerabilities, forcing them to look to unregulated local models.

ai cyber threats nation state phishingJun 30, 20264 min

British Teens Behind Notorious 'Scattered Spider' Cyber Syndicate Admit to Paralyzing London's Transit Network

Two young British hackers affiliated with the notorious Scattered Spider group have pleaded guilty to the devastating 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London, exposing their methods and extensive history of international network intrusions.

cybersecurityJun 19, 20266 min

Bioinformatics Under Siege: Shai-Hulud's Latest PyPI Poisoning Campaign

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack that delivered malware designed to steal developer secrets. The malicious packages masqueraded as legitimate science and research tools, bypassing security scans by hiding payloads in obfuscated code that only activates during specific runtime conditions.

ai national securityJun 17, 20265 min

World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.