The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is building a taxonomy of attack and mitigations for securing artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Speaking at the AI Summit New York conference, Apostol Vassilev, a research team supervisor for NIST, told attendees that the arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce is working with industry partners..

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In December 2025, a ransomware attack on Marquis Software Solutions, a data analytics and marketing vendor serving the financial sector, compromised sensitive customer information held by multiple banks and credit unions, according to Infosecurity Magazine. The attackers reportedly gained access through a known vulnerability in a firewall device connected to Marquis’s remote-access systems. The incident

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See how Crédit Agricole Personal Finance & Mobility (CAPFM) uses DataDome to cut bot traffic by 40%, govern AI & LLM crawlers, and restore clean analytics, protecting all their domains without friction.

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A recently documented cyber attack has set a new global benchmark for digital disruption. A botnet known as Aisuru launched a massive distributed denial-of-service attack, peaking at an unprecedented 29.7 terabits per second against a financial services target. While service providers were ultimately able to contain the impact, the event is a clear warning that

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The Era of Fragmentation: Why Your Security Stack is Failing You The modern enterprise security environment is complex, often relying on a “best-of-breed” strategy that is anything but the best. This fragmented approach, licensing 15 or more point solutions, creates debilitating problems such as alert fatigue and a practice known as “swivel-chair analysis.” This is

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I recently learned that the great folks from The DFIR Report have done a writeup covering the Latrodectus backdoor. Their report is titled From a Single Click: How Lunar Spider Enabled a Near Two-Month Intrusion. I found it particularly interesting that the threat actors used Latrodectus to drop a B[...]

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Originally published at What Is SPF Flattening? How to Avoid it? by EasyDMARC.

SPF flattening is a method used to simplify ...

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The cybersecurity world loves a simple solution to a complex problem, and Gartner delivered exactly that with its recent advisory: “Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future.” The esteemed analyst firm warns that agentic browsers—tools like Perplexity’s Comet and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas—pose too much risk for corporate use. While their caution makes sense given..

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2026 is going to be a strange year in cybersecurity. Not only will it be more of the same, but bigger and louder. It stands to bring about a structural shift in who is attacking us, what we are defending, exactly where we are defending, and hopefully, who will be held accountable when things go …

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Our research team recently discovered an exploitable pattern in GitHub Actions that lets attackers exploit seemingly fixed vulnerabilities.

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming the backbone of how AI agents interact with the outside world. It gives agents a standardized way to discover tools, trigger actions, and pull data. MCP dramatically simplifies integration work. In short, MCP servers act as the adapter that grants access to services, manages credentials and permissions, and..

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OWASP unveils its GenAI Top 10 threats for agentic AI, plus new security and governance guides, risk maps, and a FinBot CTF tool to help organizations secure emerging AI agents.

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Noma Security today revealed it has discovered a vulnerability in the enterprise edition of Google Gemini that can be used to inject a malicious prompt that instructs an artificial intelligence (AI) application or agent to exfiltrate data. Dubbed GeminiJack, cybercriminals can use this vulnerability to embed a malicious prompt in, for example, a Google Doc..

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When it comes to cybersecurity, it often seems the best prevention is to follow a litany of security “do’s” and “don’ts.”  A former colleague once recalled that at one organization where he worked, this approach led to such a long list of guidance that the cybersecurity function was playfully referred to as a famous James..

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The exploitation efforts by China-nexus groups and other bad actors against the critical and easily abused React2Shell flaw in the popular React and Next.js software accelerated over the weekend, with threats ranging from stolen credentials and initial access to downloaders, crypto-mining, and the NoodleRat backdoor being executed.

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The Tech Field Day Exclusive with Microsoft Security (#TFDxMSSec25) spotlighted one of the most aggressive demonstrations of AI-powered security operations to date. Microsoft showcased how Sentinel’s evolving data lake and graph architecture now drive real-time, machine-assisted threat response. The demo of “Attack Disruption” captured the promise—and the unease—of a security operations center where AI acts..

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At a recent Tech Field Day Exclusive event, Microsoft unveiled a significant evolution of its security operations strategy—one that attempts to solve a problem plaguing security teams everywhere: the exhausting practice of jumping between multiple consoles just to understand a single attack. The Problem: Too Many Windows, Not Enough Clarity Security analysts have a name..

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TransUnion today added an ability to create digital fingerprints without relying on cookies that identify, in real time, risky devices and other hidden anomalies to its Device Risk service for combatting fraud. Clint Lowry, vice president of global fraud solutions at TransUnion, said these capabilities extend a service that makes use of machine learning models..

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Nudge Security today extended the scope of its namesake security and governance platform to monitor sensitive data shared via uploads and integrations with an artificial intelligence (AI) service, in addition to now being able to identify individuals sharing that data by department or the specific tools used. In addition, Nudge Security is now making it..

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