Cloud Security

JFrog Artifactory CVEs: Your Artifact Repository Is a Build Boundary

CISA KEV activity and a fresh critical Artifactory authentication bypass show why package repositories need incident-grade monitoring, not just routine patching.

GPUThor: ECC Was Supposed to Stop GPU Rowhammer. It Didn't.

University of Toronto researchers showed GPUThor can overwhelm ECC on tested NVIDIA Ampere workstation GPUs, causing denial of service and root-level privilege escalation under lab conditions.

TONTOU: The Interrupt That Reopens Spectre's Closed Door

MIT researchers used precisely timed interrupts to re-poison branch prediction after Spectre v2 defenses ran. The result changes risk decisions for shared Linux compute.

Cloud Concentration Risk: A Single Point of Failure

Recent AWS and Cloudflare disruptions show how shared cloud, identity, and network dependencies turn localized faults into widespread outages. Here is how to find and reduce that hidden blast radius.

LSHIY Password Spray: ROPC and MFA Gaps in Microsoft 365

A June 2026 password spray from LSHIY LLC's IPv6 range compromised 78 Microsoft accounts across 64 organizations by abusing Azure CLI ROPC sign-ins that MFA policies did not cover.

AI Cyber Sovereignty: What Happens When Your Best Defender Can Be Switched Off?

Frontier cyber AI is becoming controlled infrastructure. The security risk is not only that attackers get stronger models, but that defenders become dependent on capabilities a vendor or government can withdraw.

QUIC and HTTP/3: The Browser Traffic Your Proxy May Not Be Seeing

QUIC and HTTP/3 can change the path browser traffic takes through enterprise controls. Here is why TCP-focused inspection can miss policy violations, how to test it, and what defenders should fix.

Insider Threat in 2026: The Risk Is Not Who You Trust, But What They Can Reach

Insider threat is not only about malicious employees. It is about trusted access, forgotten accounts, stolen sessions, and the controls that decide how far one identity can go.

When AI Insiders Walk Away: Google's Moral Compass Problem Is a User Trust Problem

A Google Android security director resigned over Pentagon AI work. The deeper question is what users should believe when people close to powerful AI systems start walking away.

SaaS Hacking: The New Internal Network Attackers Already Use

Attackers no longer need malware on every endpoint. With one valid identity, token, or integration, they can move through Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub, and other SaaS platforms like an internal network.

Post-Quantum Security: Who Is Ready?

Some vendors have already deployed post-quantum protections. Most enterprises have not. Here is who is moving first, where the gaps remain, and what security teams should do now.

OAuth Consent Phishing in 2026: MFA Stops Password Theft, Not Bad App Grants

Attackers do not always need your password. A single OAuth consent grant can give a malicious or compromised app durable access to mail, files, calendars, and SaaS data.

Trusted Email Is the New Phishing Infrastructure

Scammers are abusing legitimate notification systems from Microsoft, Google, PayPal, Docusign, and other trusted platforms. The message can pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC because the platform really sent it.

Ransomware Doesn't Need to Encrypt Anymore — And That's the Point

22% of ransomware incidents in 2026 involve no encryption at all. The threat model has shifted from disruption to silent exfiltration — and most defenses haven't caught up.

Europe's Digital Independence Push: EuroStack, Sovereign Cloud, and Breaking Free from US Infrastructure

France is migrating 2.5 million government PCs to Linux. Europe is building its own payment network to rival Visa and Mastercard. EuroStack aims to replace AWS and Azure. Here's what's happening, why it matters for security, and how realistic it is.

AWS IAM Privilege Escalation to Data Exfil: The Full Attack Chain

How attackers escalate from a low-privilege AWS IAM credential to full S3 data theft — and the CloudTrail events, GuardDuty findings, and Sigma rules that expose them.

C2 Without Owning C2: When Attackers Use Your Trusted Services

Attackers no longer need their own infrastructure. Learn how Dead Drop C2, Living off Trusted Services, and reputation laundering work—and why traditional defenses fail.

The Build Is the Target: CI/CD Pipeline Attacks and How to Detect Them

Your CI/CD pipeline stores production credentials, runs code automatically, and trusts pull requests. Here's how attackers exploit that — and the detection logic to catch them.

Entra ID Attacks in Practice: Device Code Phishing, PRT Theft, and Conditional Access Bypass

MFA is no longer enough to protect Microsoft Entra ID accounts. Attackers steal tokens, register their own devices, and bypass Conditional Access — without ever touching a password. Here's the full attack chain and how to detect it.

Identity-First Attacks in Cloud: How Permissions Become the New Perimeter

Cloud attackers exploit IAM permissions, not vulnerabilities. Learn the 4-phase attack chain from initial access to data exfiltration and detection strategies.

Non-Human Identities: The Attack Surface Your Security Team Isn't Managing

Service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens and machine credentials now outnumber human identities 144 to 1. Most organizations have zero visibility into them. Attackers do.

Ransomware Backup Strategy: Why 93% Who Pay Still Lose Data

93% of ransomware victims who pay still discover data theft. Only 29% use multi-layer backup protection. Learn immutability, validation, and org readiness strategies.

SSRF Explained: How Attackers Make Servers Fetch Secrets for Them

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) lets attackers trick a server into making requests on their behalf — reaching internal systems, cloud credentials, and more.

The Notebook That Stole Your Credentials: Google Colab's Hidden Security Risks

Millions run shared Colab notebooks without reading them. Here's what that actually costs you — from Google Drive exfiltration to OAuth token theft and supply chain attacks.

Kubernetes and Container Security: Attacks, Misconfigurations, and Defenses

How attackers break out of containers, escalate privileges in Kubernetes clusters, and move into cloud infrastructure — and how defenders detect and stop them.