· zachyceno
When trust becomes the payload: Inside the threats, etc quarterly report
In the cybersecurity community, we build our defenses on a foundation of trust. We trust an AI coding assistant because it’s on our approved software list or can accomplish a task when prompted. We trust a remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool because IT likely installed it to help end users and it has a trusted signature. We even trust first-party applications to sign in on our behalf because the vendor ships them and our tenants pre-authorize them by default. But what happens when that…