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Suppliers, logins, and AI tools are all becoming attack paths

Cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are abusing trusted identities, cloud services, AI tools, and software supply chains to gain access while avoiding detection, according to CrowdStrike’s 2026 Threat Hunting Report. Intrusion activity increased by about 4% over the past year. Even though the increase was smaller than in the previous reporting period, it shows a growing focus on more targeted campaigns. Attackers are investing more time in exploiting trusted access paths and legitimate infrastructure. AI … More → The post Suppliers, logins, and AI tools are all becoming attack paths appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Non-human identities are 91% of everything active in production

A backup job fires at two in the morning. A scanner walks the same AWS account an hour later, a deployment pipeline assumes a role at four, and a logging agent runs straight through the night. Each of those actions carries a credential issued to a machine. An attacker holding one of those credentials inherits the same cover. Only 20% of non-human activity in production falls inside standard business hours, which puts a rogue API … More → The post Non-human identities are 91% of everything active in production appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Cloudflare OS goes open source with a record of everything its agents read

Cloudflare open sourced Cloudflare OS, the agent platform whose first version its own employees have used since May. Every resource an agent reads gets recorded, the record follows whatever the agent produces, and when a second person opens that output the platform checks them against the underlying data first. An agent builds a live dashboard from a sensitive warehouse table, a coworker opens the dashboard, and the coworker sees nothing unless they could have read … More → The post Cloudflare OS goes open source with a record of everything its agents read appeared first on Help Net Security.
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22 Seconds to Compromise: How Automated SSH Actors Move From Login to Persistence Before You Can Blink [Guest Diary], (Thu, Aug 6th)

[This is a Guest Diary by Daryl Jiminez, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TTtDNX

Comment on veterans’ preference shines a light on the broken hiring process

Experts say outrage over GSA’s Pete Waterman’s comments on veterans’ preference is misplaced as the problem is with the complex, arduous federal hiring process.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TTtBHY

Comment on veterans’ preference shines a light on the broken hiring process

Experts say outrage over GSA’s Pete Waterman’s comments on veterans’ preference is misplaced as the problem is with the complex, arduous federal hiring process.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TTtBGD

Thinking of blowing the whistle? Actions to take, pitfalls to avoid

Veronica Nannis, a principal at Joseph Greenwald & Laake, offers a basic primer for potential whistleblowers under the False Claims Act.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TTtBG8

Thinking of blowing the whistle? Actions to take, pitfalls to avoid

Veronica Nannis, a principal at Joseph Greenwald & Laake, offers a basic primer for potential whistleblowers under the False Claims Act.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TTtBCB

Judge throws out DOE’s blanket ‘still interested’ FOIA policy

The Energy Department tried to use a mass “still interested” notice to close older FOIA requests. A federal judge found the agency had no authority to do that.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TTt9rY