Thrown into the SOC: A Black Hat First-Timer’s Story
What a short, intense rotation taught me about uncertainty, evidence, and working alongside AI in the SOC. Let me get one thing out of the way: I am not a…
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Protecting organizations from AI-assisted executive impersonation and invoice fraud
In this article Threat actors are increasingly improving their tactics to make suspicious emails look like legitimate email notifications to potential victims, deploying techniques that impersonate internally sent emails from…
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PuzzleMask: Abusing Plain Prose as a Covert AI Attack Vector
Executive Summary In this research we introduce a prompt-crafting technique for bypassing quick LLM-based policy checks — using plain English (no emojis, base64, invisible formatting, etc.) A policy-violating payload (e.g. ”encrypt…
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Introducing automatic remediation policies with Cloudflare CASB
Today, we’re making Cloudflare CASB more powerful than ever by introducing automatic remediation policies. This means security teams can now design event-driven logic to revoke risky file shares and dispatch…
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This One Goes to Sixteen!
This One Goes to Sixteen! Another banger from Metasploit with sixteen new modules, including ten exploit modules, with five on the CISA KEV list. Cisco, Papercut, Sonicwall, Jetbrains, and Langflow…
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Berlin Cyberattack Exposes 1.4M Files on Dark Web
Berlin refused to pay Rhysida. The ransomware group responded by publishing nearly 1.4 million stolen government files on the dark web. Deutsche Welle said that the dump contains 1,439,893 files,…
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Why AI raises the stakes for exposure validation
AI dominated the conversation at Fal.Con 2026, but one of the most important takeaways wasn’t simply how AI is changing cyber defense. It was how AI is changing the speed…
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Cloud Takeover: Mass Scanning for Exposed Vite Endpoints (CVE-2026-39364)
Introduction August 2026 saw an escalation in automated reconnaissance targeting internet-exposed developer tooling. Honeynet sensors recorded a sustained scanning operation focused on pulling cloud credentials and infrastructure state files out…
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Your Best Analyst Shouldn’t Be a Person. It Should Be a Capability Everyone Can Summon.
For thirty years, we have measured security operations by the tools we buy. The next decade will measure us by the outcomes we deliver. That shift is already here, and…
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Palo Alto Networks Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Hybrid Mesh Firewall
Securing Every Environment at the Speed of Frontier AI Recognized as a Leader for the second consecutive time and positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision. Palo Alto Networks is advancing…
