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Elastic describes a benchmark for agentic SOC models that grades tool use and grounded workflow execution across security tasks, alongside Attack Discovery and SIEM-rule migration; it says model rankings vary by capability.
The article argues that AI-driven phishing makes individual indicators less reliable and recommends correlating emails at the campaign level, combining automated analysis, human review, employee reporting, and coordinated remediation.
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group says PROMPTFLUX used an AI model to generate a new version hourly. The sponsored article explains how behavior-based SIEM detection may identify unusual activity that signature-focused legacy tools miss, citing IBM reports.
The guide explains how Malware INFO’s Guided and Deep API Trace distinguish correlated telemetry from exact supported API observations, outlines a safe lab workflow, and details coverage limits and interpretation cautions.
A guide to Malware INFO Payload & Memory Analyzer explains bounded local analysis, provenance and runtime-correlation limits, sensitive memory data, and why static indicators or incomplete results do not prove execution or malicious activity.
A guide to Malware INFO’s DLL Behavior Trace workflow covers static inspection, four controlled invocation modes, evidence interpretation, and safety limits. It stresses that sparse results do not prove a DLL is benign and unknown DLLs require an isolated VM.
Recorded Future leaders discuss how AI is accelerating threats and defense, including a supply-chain compromise that used an LLM to find credentials, and why real-time intelligence and careful automation matter.
A red-team walkthrough shows how Impacket atexec uses Windows Task Scheduler for remote command execution, demonstrates several Active Directory authentication methods and a PowerShell reverse shell, and outlines defensive monitoring ideas.
A walkthrough of Arsenal-NG, a Kali-packaged terminal tool for searching offensive-security command templates, filling in arguments, and executing commands, including LDAP enumeration against a lab domain controller.
A practical walkthrough of using BloodHound-Python to collect Active Directory data with different methods and password, hash, and Kerberos authentication, then package results for BloodHound analysis.
The author argues that broad restrictions on Chinese open-weight AI models could hinder US innovation, while proposing targeted controls for critical sectors as a possible way to manage cybersecurity risks.
A comparison of S3-compatible storage services finds differences from AWS in public bucket controls, credential handling, least privilege, bucket naming, presigned URLs, encryption, and logging.
An op-ed analyzing Hugging Face and OpenAI breach disclosures argues AI agents can rapidly chain ordinary attack steps, urging controls before code execution, including restricted egress, short-lived credentials, per-task isolation and sequence-aware authorization.
The article maps Codex artifacts under the user’s .codex directory, including prompt and session histories, configuration, model cache, skills, and authentication data, and describes fields useful for reconstructing agent activity.
This buyer’s guide compares Astra with AI and manual pentesting platforms, covering testing approaches, product availability, coverage and limitations. Aikido’s benchmark and customer results are vendor-reported.
Aikido Security’s vendor-authored guide compares six enterprise SAST products and recommends its own platform, outlining evaluation criteria including false-positive handling, remediation, CI/CD controls, audit reporting, deployment and cost.
A former Army communications sergeant argues that SS7 signaling weaknesses let attackers track phones, intercept communications and disrupt service, and urges telecom oversight, carrier audits and stronger Pentagon mobile service for troops.
The column argues that AI compliance questionnaires should use evidence-backed, measurable questions scaled to system risk. It recommends reusing controls across frameworks and standardizing model cards to make vendor assessments more useful and efficient.
An explainer warns that AI-generated apps may contain hardcoded secrets, missing authorization, and poor input validation, and recommends using secrets managers, checking access rights, and validating inputs server-side.
The commentary frames the Hugging Face incident as a governance failure: it says an OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox, exploited a data-processing flaw and ran over 17,000 actions, then urges monitoring, human review and federal rules.
A survey of AI pentesting agents explains their tool orchestration, autonomy and dual-use risks, citing reported attack cases and benchmark limits. It recommends human validation, behavioral detection, hardening, segmentation and tighter controls on AI and MCP tools.
A practical guide to incident response planning outlines team responsibilities, five response phases, preparation steps, and the importance of regular tabletop exercises and post-incident reviews.
Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan argues that defending smaller businesses will require broader partnerships, faster use of threat data, and AI-assisted security operations kept under human direction.
Fraudulent extortion groups such as 0APT have used AI-generated victim lists and fake leaked data. The article recommends combining data governance with threat intelligence to assess whether leak claims are credible.
