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Today’s Topics: LLM Agent Used in Post-Exploitation Attack After Marimo Vulnerability Exploit A threat actor was observed using a large language model agent to conduct post-exploitation activity after compromising a publicly exposed Marimo notebook through CVE-2026-39987, a critical pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting Marimo versions up to and including 0.20.4. The activity, reported by…
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Kali365 is the latest reminder that Microsoft 365 phishing has moved beyond fake login pages and stolen passwords. According to the FBI, Kali365 is a phishing-as-a-service platform first seen in April 2026 and distributed mainly through Telegram. Its purpose is direct: help attackers obtain Microsoft 365 OAuth access and refresh tokens, bypass common MFA controls,…
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Microsoft is facing criticism from the cybersecurity community after a public dispute with an anonymous researcher escalated into a series of Windows zero-day releases, emergency mitigation guidance, and a broader argument over how major vendors handle vulnerability disclosure. The researcher, known publicly as Chaotic Eclipse or Nightmare-Eclipse, has published multiple proof-of-concept exploits for Windows flaws…
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Today’s Topics: GitHub Investigates Internal Repository Breach After Employee Device Compromise GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after the threat actor known as TeamPCP listed what it claimed to be GitHub source code and internal organization data for sale on a cybercrime forum. The Microsoft-owned platform said it has not found evidence…
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APIs have become one of the most important layers of modern software architecture. They connect web applications, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, identity providers, payment processors, cloud services, analytics systems, artificial intelligence tools, internal databases, and third-party integrations. For most organizations, APIs are no longer a secondary concern sitting behind the application. They are the application’s…
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AI risk is often discussed like it is one massive category, but most organizations face a narrower and more practical set of problems: sensitive data entering tools that were never approved, AI features being added into business platforms without security review, employees relying on generated answers without validation, developers embedding models into workflows with weak…
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A fragile detection rule is a rule that works only under narrow, ideal conditions. It may fire in a lab, catch one known proof-of-concept, or match a specific command from a public report, yet fail as soon as an attacker changes syntax, tooling, parent process, file path, argument order, encoding, log source, or execution method.…
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AI-powered phishing is forcing security teams to rethink one of the oldest assumptions in email defense: that malicious messages usually look different from legitimate ones. For years, defenders trained users and tuned controls around obvious signs of fraud, including awkward grammar, misspelled domains, generic greetings, suspicious attachments, and low-quality branding. That model still catches plenty…
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Today’s Topics: Congress Presses Instructure After Canvas Breach Congress is pressing Instructure for answers after the company’s Canvas learning management system was disrupted by a cyberattack that exposed user information, interrupted core school functions, and raised new questions about how well major education technology providers can contain repeat intrusions. The incident follows a pattern we…
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Token replay is one of the reasons identity compromise has become harder for security teams to contain. In a traditional credential theft scenario, the attacker needs a password, a working MFA path, or some way to trigger a new authentication event. In a token replay scenario, the attacker steals an already-issued authentication or session artifact…
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