The AI Attack Surface: How Threat Actors Abuse Trusted AI Platforms
Threat actors are targeting the AI attack surface to deliver malware and steal data. See how trusted AI tools are being exploited today.
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Threat actors are targeting the AI attack surface to deliver malware and steal data. See how trusted AI tools are being exploited today.
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In this article AI workloads are becoming high-value control pointsCase study 1: LiteLLM gateway compromiseCase study 2: RAGFlow compromiseCase study 3: Kestra compromiseMitigation and protection guidanceMITRE ATT&CK techniques observedReferencesLearn more AI is creating a new layer of enterprise infrastructure. Gateways, retrieval platforms, orchestration services, and containerized runtimes now sit between users, applications, data, and models. These systems concentrate credentials, data…
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A phase-by-phase detection mapping of the first publicly documented autonomous agent intrusion against production infrastructure — including the phases where no product in our category sees anything at all. Executive Summary On July 9, 2026, an autonomous AI agent running inside an OpenAI capability evaluation escaped its sandbox and launched a multi-day intrusion against Hugging Face’s Kubernetes environment. Across roughly 17,600 actions, it moved from third-party infrastructure into the…
Aikido Security has achieved ISO 42001 certification, the global standard for AI governance, covering AI pentesting, Code Security Audit, and Deep PR Review. Category: Compliance
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Selecting a model for your security operations center (SOC) and digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tasks is important, but selecting the best one is more involved than you might think. SOC tasks rely on a combination of model efficacy, analysis time, cost, and consistency of results. Cisco Talos tested 66 model and reasoning combinations across offerings from both Anthropic and OpenAI on a log analysis task to see if we could identify a clear winner. Instead, we found a repeatable…
Aikido's agents pentest your Android app and its backend in a single whitebox assessment. You get reproducible findings, AutoFix, and retests for every issue. Category: Product & Company Updates
CISA added CVE-2022-0995 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Affected product: Linux Kernel. Remediation due date: 2026-09-09.
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Group-IB expone una operación mexicana de PhaaS dirigida a más de 20 instituciones financieras, con capacidades de phishing en tiempo real, vishing con IA y RAT para dispositivos móviles.
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AI verdict correctness in our security operations center (SOC) is 92%, up from 60%, but we didn't switch models to get there. What we changed is the context the agents get before they decide anything, including the detection rule's investigation guide and user risk data from Workday, along with the closure reasons from 30 days of past cases on that same rule. This post covers how the agentic SOC pipeline is built in Elastic Workflows and Elastic Agent Builder, down to the prompts and the…
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AI verdict correctness in our security operations center (SOC) is 92%, up from 60%, but we didn't switch models to get there. What we changed is the context the agents get before they decide anything, including the detection rule's investigation guide and user risk data from Workday, along with the closure reasons from 30 days of past cases on that same rule. This post covers how the agentic SOC pipeline is built in Elastic Workflows and Elastic Agent Builder, down to the prompts and the…
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Aikido AI Code Audit found 8 more vulnerabilities than Claude Security with Mythos at less than half the cost. How harness design drives coverage per dollar. Category: News
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Compare the top enterprise AI pentesting tools of 2026: Aikido, XBOW, NodeZero, Pentera, Hadrian, and Cobalt. Category: DevSec Tools & Comparisons
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UAT-10147 is a highly capable Chinese-speaking intrusion actor operating a multi-platform post-exploitation ecosystem targeting IIS and Linux servers, combining search engine optimization (SEO) fraud monetization with advanced persistence and defense evasion techniques. The newly identified SPECTRE implant represents a significant evolution in commodity intrusion tooling, integrating cross-platform command-and-control (C2) operations, process injection, credential theft, anti-analysis…
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<p>A year of MDR casework shows attackers repeatedly exploiting demand for AI tools</p>Categories: Threat ResearchTags: AI, malvertising, infostealer, Sophos X-Ops
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Written by: Alex Tselevich, Michael Maturi Introduction Adversarial misuse of AI has increased the risk of data theft and extortion events, because when proprietary source code is exposed, defenders must scramble to identify and patch vulnerabilities while attackers deploy machine-speed AI tools against them. By structuring the analysis process, enforcing skeptical validation steps, and injecting domain-specific human expertise directly into the pipeline, we’ve achieved a leap in efficacy.…
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You can’t patch everything. So what do you fix first? Findings in Q2 2026 have changed traditional answers.The latest Quarterly Threat Landscape Report from Rapid7 Labs shows vulnerability disclosures still surging while attackers use automation and AI-assisted tooling to compress the time between disclosure and exploitation. The gap that patch cycles were built to fill is closing. Speed and volume are overwhelming security teams that have relied on traditional patch cycles and reactive…
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Tenable’s Research Special Operations (RSO) team has been tracking a cluster of agentic AI threat activity since late July 2026. The Taiwan autonomous AI cyber attack confirmed what the cluster data already showed: near-autonomous offensive AI has crossed from theoretical risk to operational reality.Key TakeawaysTaiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs confirmed a near-autonomous AI cyber attack in July 2026 in which autonomous agents mapped 21 connected government systems, compromised 85 accounts,…
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For the past year, the ransomware conversation has centered on concentration: a handful of dominant RaaS operations controlling most of the damage, and a shrinking pool of active groups fighting over the same territory. The State of Ransomware Q2 2026 report from Check Point Research shows that picture starting to shift. The leaders are still winning, but the road to joining them has gotten a great deal shorter. Key observed findings The ecosystem stayed concentrated even as its tail widened…
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Something shifted in security operations over the last two years: AI stopped being a pilot program and became the plan.And if you survey 500 security professionals on whether that's going well – as Omdia did, commissioned by Rapid7 – you get a remarkable level of consensus: 97% report positive outcomes, 98% say AI reduces alert fatigue, and 95% say it's helping address staffing shortages.Those numbers are high enough that the story could stop there; AI is working, everyone agrees. Move on. But…
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We gave hundreds of developers an AI agent that can run shell commands, edit files, and call Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on their laptops, then realized we had no record of what it actually did. So we built one. One 280-line dependency-free bash script, fired by Cursor's hooks, records every tool call as JSONL, and the Elastic Agent already on each endpoint ships it to Elasticsearch. Since the May rollout we have logged over 13 million tool-call events from more than 1,100 machines. A…
We gave hundreds of developers an AI agent that can run shell commands, edit files, and call Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on their laptops, then realized we had no record of what it actually did. So we built one. One 280-line dependency-free bash script, fired by Cursor's hooks, records every tool call as JSONL, and the Elastic Agent already on each endpoint ships it to Elasticsearch. Since the May rollout we have logged over 13 million tool-call events from more than 1,100 machines. A…
Security teams are being asked to defend a growing attack surface with fewer people and around the clock, against threat actors who never take a night off. As cyberattackers increasingly use AI to launch and scale campaigns, the volume, speed, and sophistication of threats continue to rise. Closing that gap takes more than tooling. It takes a partner that pairs a leading security platform with scaled intelligence and human experts who can act on your behalf at any hour. That’s exactly what…
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Key Takeaways Human-speed compliance is dead. Attackers utilizing modern, autonomous AI tools can chain enterprise misconfigurations and weaponize vulnerabilities in under 25 minutes, rendering manual, periodic audit cycles completely obsolete. The “Configuration Gap” is your biggest blind spot. Organizations take an average of 14 months to remediate basic identity, access control, and logging flaws, leaving a massive, open window of exposure for automated exploitation. Hyper-prioritization is…
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Coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor are vendor-signed, used all day on developer laptops, and routinely open shells, call APIs, edit files, and install helpers. That makes GenAI-adjacent alerts challenging to investigate. The parent looks trusted, while the children can still look a lot like classic high-severity activity. This article walks through one of those windows. On a macOS endpoint, Elastic Security endpoint telemetry showed shells under Claude Code that scripted a login to an…
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Agentic AI armed attackers first, but it also put real building power in defenders’ hands. Here’s what security practitioners built in two days at Black Hat USA 2026, and how the CyberAgents Exchange keeps that work compounding long after the event.Key takeawaysBuilding defensive cybersecurity tooling no longer requires a developer. Agentic tooling drove the cost of finding and exploiting a vulnerability down to 1990s levels; it also removed the engineering barrier that kept defenders from…
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Coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor are vendor-signed, used all day on developer laptops, and routinely open shells, call APIs, edit files, and install helpers. That makes GenAI-adjacent alerts challenging to investigate. The parent looks trusted, while the children can still look a lot like classic high-severity activity. This article walks through one of those windows. On a macOS endpoint, Elastic Security endpoint telemetry showed shells under Claude Code that scripted a login to an…
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Metaphor is a powerful tool for understanding emerging issues in cybersecurity. Framing the unfamiliar in terms of the well understood helps us remove the burden of extraneous detail to draw focus to the real issues. Recent reports of offensive AI agents "escaping" their sandbox environments to attack external systems have forced the industry into a moment of rapid sense-making. How we interpret this event doesn’t just reflect our…
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We spent 500+ hours and 40 billion tokens testing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview for Project Glasswing. The takeaway: frontier AI won't run your code security program, but used well, it can make one even stronger.Key takeawaysFrontier AI dramatically scales security testing. In one month, Tenable dedicated 11 security experts and more than 40 billion tokens testing Claude Mythos Preview across source code analysis, exploit creation, binary reverse engineering, threat modeling, and dynamic…
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As organizations adopt AI, they must secure both cloud and AI environments through a unified security control plane as their attack surface expands. Because modern applications and AI workloads are built and run in the cloud, security teams must understand which exposures matter most, prioritize what can truly be exploited, and reduce risk across cloud infrastructure, applications, identities, data, and AI systems in one place. Modern IT estates now span multiple clouds and on-premises systems,…
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Discover how Tenable Hexa AI closes the gap between exposure management and endpoint patching using intent-driven routines, smart guardrails, and human approval.Key takeawaysThe problem: A slow handoff between security workflows creates a days-long remediation gap. The solution: Tenable Hexa AI bridges this gap using intent-driven Routines that automate scoping, deployment, and verification across integrated platforms like Jamf. Safety and control: Autonomy is governed by the harness built into…
Continuous AI pentesting for teams that can't use the cloud. The Aikido Machine keeps models, code, and results entirely inside your network. Category: Product & Company Updates
An agentic SOC is only as good as the model driving it. The moment you let an LLM triage an alert, hunt across your telemetry, or author a detection rule, the question stops being "is this a smart model?" and becomes something much more specific: will it pick the right skill, call the right tool in the right order, and reach the right disposition without inventing a result it never actually checked? That is not a question a general-purpose leaderboard can answer. A model can top every public…
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An agentic SOC is only as good as the model driving it. The moment you let an LLM triage an alert, hunt across your telemetry, or author a detection rule, the question stops being "is this a smart model?" and becomes something much more specific: will it pick the right skill, call the right tool in the right order, and reach the right disposition without inventing a result it never actually checked? That is not a question a general-purpose leaderboard can answer. A model can top every public…
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The calculus of cybersecurity has changed. AI is reshaping how organizations build, deploy, operate, and defend digital systems. AI-powered development tools, agents, and autonomous workflows are accelerating innovation but they are also introducing new attack surfaces, new trust boundaries, and new security challenges. Microsoft has long helped organizations secure their digital estates using Zero Trust principles. That leadership was recently recognized by KuppingerCole analysts, which named…
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Large language models (LLMs) made it trivially cheap to generate vulnerability reports. In the first half of 2026 alone, our HackerOne bug bounty program received over 1,390 reports, more than the full-year totals for 2024 and 2025 combined. Every one of them still requires human attention, so we decided to put agents against agents. If AI can generate reports at near-zero cost, AI should triage them at near-zero cost, too. The system we built agrees with human security engineers 85% of the…
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Large language models (LLMs) made it trivially cheap to generate vulnerability reports. In the first half of 2026 alone, our HackerOne bug bounty program received over 1,390 reports, more than the full-year totals for 2024 and 2025 combined. Every one of them still requires human attention, so we decided to put agents against agents. If AI can generate reports at near-zero cost, AI should triage them at near-zero cost, too. The system we built agrees with human security engineers 85% of the…
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Executive Summary In the Frontier AI era, the number of CISA-known exploited vulnerabilities has increased by 6.5x over the past four years, and time-to-exploitation has collapsed to -7 days. Traditional monthly patch cycles cannot keep up. Organizations need a new operating model that detects at AI speed, hyper-prioritizes truly exploitable exposures, and remediates immediately. TruRisk Eliminate delivers operational resiliency through the AI-Powered Patch Reliability Score, patchless…
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For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 27th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Minnesota IT Services has confirmed coordinated cyberattacks affecting more than 30 community water utilities across the state. The incidents briefly disrupted a treatment plant in Braham and affected industrial control systems. Officials reported that drinking water safety was not affected. While the attack was not officially attributed, federal…
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Executive Summary Frontier AI has turned CVE weaponization timelines to hours, making scan-bound detection a growing compliance and breach-risk challenge. Agent Insta powers InstaScan to deliver scanless detection by transforming existing inventory, telemetry, and threat intelligence into validated exposure findings within minutes of disclosure. Operating 24/7, InstaScan enables AI-speed detection with 90%+ coverage across technologies representing 60–70% of enterprise vulnerability volume.…
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Tenable spent 30 days running frontier AI models against our own code. It didn’t just find bugs — it proved they’re real, with reproducible exploits. That fundamentally changes code security from ranking potential code defects to a much higher signal focused on the findings that matter. Read on to learn how it reshaped our security team's work, what it cost, and why your program is next.Key takeaways:Now code security starts with proof, not suspicions. Frontier AI instantly builds working…
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Black Hat USA returns to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this August, bringing together security practitioners, researchers, and leaders from around the world. Rapid7 will be there in the Business Hall, with new capabilities, live demonstrations, expert-led sessions, and two days of activities at the Border Grill.This year, our focus is preemptive security: helping security teams anticipate credible risk, respond at machine speed, and maintain an accurate view of their security and compliance posture…
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Hugging Face reconstructed more than 17,000 attacker events from a July 2026 intrusion driven by an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent. The path was familiar: untrusted dataset content abused a processing worker (file disclosure, then code execution), credential harvest, then multi-cluster lateral movement. Production Elastic Defend behavior rules and Elastic Security detection (SIEM) rules already watch those types of behaviors. This post maps each stage to detections you can enable…
It's 9 a.m. Monday, the start of your shift. You begin the day like any other Monday: You open the queue, and the wall of alerts is already waiting. New alerts land between 9:05 and 9:10 a.m., while you close yesterday’s. You're already drowning, and you haven’t even had a chance to refill your coffee. You know that you won’t be able to get to things that really need prioritization. Threat hunting stays deferred, and detection engineering waits. Incident response practice never quite starts.…
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Hugging Face reconstructed more than 17,000 attacker events from a July 2026 intrusion driven by an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent. The path was familiar: untrusted dataset content abused a processing worker (file disclosure, then code execution), credential harvest, then multi-cluster lateral movement. Production Elastic Defend behavior rules and Elastic Security detection (SIEM) rules already watch those types of behaviors. This post maps each stage to detections you can enable…
It's 9 a.m. Monday, the start of your shift. You begin the day like any other Monday: You open the queue, and the wall of alerts is already waiting. New alerts land between 9:05 and 9:10 a.m., while you close yesterday’s. You're already drowning, and you haven’t even had a chance to refill your coffee. You know that you won’t be able to get to things that really need prioritization. Threat hunting stays deferred, and detection engineering waits. Incident response practice never quite starts.…
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Every organization needs security that protects end to end with the speed and scale of AI. Microsoft’s vision is simple: security should be ambient and autonomous, just like the AI it protects. As organizations scale AI and expand across environments, security teams need protection that covers every surface. This month’s updates help security and IT teams secure their AI environments, use AI to defend at speed and scale, and strengthen the foundations that AI-powered operations depend on.…
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IDC has named Rapid7 a Leader in the 2026 Worldwide Managed Detection and Response Service for Midmarket 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US52992326, July 2026). We believe this recognition and research highlights where MDR is heading.Many security programs are still built around a reactive sequence of detect, triage, and respond, but the timelines surrounding modern attacks have changed too quickly for that model to hold up on its own. Time-to-exploit has dropped from two years to 22 hours, while…
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CEO Kyle Hanslovan outlines how Huntress is evolving its research-led strategy, adopting AI with human oversight, and expanding its partner network to protect businesses against rapid, automated cyberattacks.
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TrendAI joins Nvidia as an inaugural partner in the Open Secure AI Alliance, advancing open models, harnesses, and research to strengthen cyber defense.
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Check out GreyNoise's new Head of Adversary Engagement, Mark Mager, on why traditional detection engineering can't keep pace with CVE growth — and the agentic pipeline replacing it.
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As organizations move beyond AI experimentation, success will depend on how effectively they combine intelligence and trust. The same systems that amplify knowledge, accelerate decisions, and unlock new outcomes must also protect data, govern AI, and build resilience. In this next phase of transformation, security is not separate from innovation—it is an enabler that helps make responsible innovation possible at a faster pace. That starts with asking better questions—the kind that help…
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The scenario is all too familiar for any cybersecurity professional: It’s late in the day, and a critical zero-day vulnerability is disclosed. When this happens, CISOs from every industry immediately turn to their Security Operations Centers (SOC) with the single most important, and often most difficult, question: "Are we exposed?”Answering questions like these when zero-days drop tends to trigger a frantic, high-stress fire drill. Analysts scramble to cross-reference outdated Configuration…
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Key Takeaways AI adoption has outpaced enterprise controls, with AI and LLM workloads appearing faster than security teams can inventory or approve them. AI governance has become an evidence problem. Policies, questionnaires, and risk registers cannot prove that AI systems are safe. Traditional security tools see only fragments of AI risk. They miss model behavior, cannot produce technical evidence, and do not discover or assess the full AI estate. TotalAI connects four components of AI…
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Elastic automatically translates your Microsoft Sentinel detection rules into Elastic Security. Export your Scheduled and Near Real Time (NRT) analytics rules from Sentinel, upload them, and Elastic picks up the mapping and translation from there using an LLM you choose. Watchlists and severity mappings carry over. This is the first automatic migration path off a modern SIEM, available now in Tech Preview in 9.5, and it works across multiple cloud providers and regions so you can deploy closer…
Elastic automatically translates your Microsoft Sentinel detection rules into Elastic Security. Export your Scheduled and Near Real Time (NRT) analytics rules from Sentinel, upload them, and Elastic picks up the mapping and translation from there using an LLM you choose. Watchlists and severity mappings carry over. This is the first automatic migration path off a modern SIEM, available now in Tech Preview in 9.5, and it works across multiple cloud providers and regions so you can deploy closer…
Key Takeaways Qualys now delivers automated AWS Lambda vulnerability scanning, extending serverless security beyond posture checks (CSPM) into workload-level risk visibility. CSPM alone only catches misconfigurations (excessive permissions, exposure, logging, encryption) — it can’t detect vulnerable open-source packages or outdated libraries inside function code. Lambda’s granular permissions model, dynamic execution environments, and lack of persistent infrastructure make traditional security…
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For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 27th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Nichirei, a Japan-based frozen-food supplier and logistics company, has experienced a ransomware attack that disrupted shipping operations and affected approximately 5,000 customers. KFC Japan warned of possible shortages. Nichirei confirmed personal data theft, while the RansomHouse group claimed responsibility and published a subset of the stolen…
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Key Takeaways Two real-world cloud attacks reached meaningful impact in less than ten minutes despite pursuing entirely different objectives. Both attackers treated the environment as a connected system, using existing permissions and relationships to expand their reach. Reconnaissance increasingly focuses on understanding access and capability rather than discovering vulnerable assets. AI is compressing the gap between discovery, decision-making, and execution for cloud attackers. The interval…