Living off the coding agent: Two tales of tunnels and LaunchAgents
Agent-parented reverse tunnels and LaunchAgents can expose a local admin app to the internet. Endpoint still needs to treat that as high severity even when t...
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Inside the Modern SOC: The Identity Front Door
Identity-based attacks drive 90% of incidents. Learn how modern attackers exploit identities and what SOC leaders can do to respond.
The security signal log tailing can't see: tracking npm cooldown removals with Elastic Agent
A 40-line CEL integration snapshots .npmrc files every 6 hours to catch cooldown removals.
July 2026 CVE Landscape
In July 2026, Insikt Group® identified 85 high-impact vulnerabilities that should be prioritized for remediation, 36 of which had a Very Critical Recorded Fu...
The security signal log tailing can't see: tracking npm cooldown removals with Elastic Agent
A 40-line CEL integration snapshots .npmrc files every 6 hours to catch cooldown removals.
Living off the coding agent: Two tales of tunnels and LaunchAgents
Agent-parented reverse tunnels and LaunchAgents can expose a local admin app to the internet. Endpoint still needs to treat that as high severity even when t...
ChainDrop: Inside a Self-Propagating npm Worm
Analysis of ChainDrop, an npm supply chain worm extracting GitHub Actions runner secrets and using Ethereum smart contracts for C2 routing. The post ChainDro...
When Agentic Glue Melts: Exploiting Cloudflare Code Mode and Workers
By Yarden Porat, Check Point Research Key Points The short version We set out to break Cloudflare Code Mode, and ended up breaking Cloudflare Workers too. We...
CSS:the bomb inside your inbox
Gareth Heyes - gareth.heyes@portswigger.
Day 2 at Black Hat: Check Point Research Takes the Stage
Day two at Black Hat, and Check Point Research brought two talks to the stage that gave the room plenty to think about. One dug into a fifteen year old blind...
Token Jacking: Cybercriminals Could Be Stealing Your AI Resources
Discover how attackers hijack AI tokens to fuel gray market transfer stations by stealing developer API keys. The post Token Jacking: Cybercriminals Could Be...
Shai-Hulud strikes again: CHAINDROP worm hits 400+ npm packages
Elastic Security Labs identified the return of Shai-Hulud. Attackers compromised the keyv maintainer and deployed CHAINDROP, a worm that uses stolen npm cred...
Emerging Threats to Neurotechnology
Explore the evolving security landscape of neurotechnology, including risks like IP theft, data extortion, and regulatory challenges in this emerging field.
Shai-Hulud strikes again: CHAINDROP worm hits 400+ npm packages
Elastic Security Labs identified the return of Shai-Hulud. Attackers compromised the keyv maintainer and deployed CHAINDROP, a worm that uses stolen npm cred...
CRLF-Powered Desync Attacks: Beheading HTTP Streams
Abstract In this paper we’ll show that HTTP Header Injection is severely underestimated.
Can AI do novel security research? Meet the HTTP Terminator
Abstract We all know AI can find bugs. After a decade of research, I asked a harder question: can an autonomous system invent new attack techniques, and use ...
Can AI do novel security research? Meet the HTTP Terminator
Abstract We all know AI can find bugs. After a decade of research, I asked a harder question: can an autonomous system invent new attack techniques, and use ...
A few notes on AWS Nitro Enclaves: KMS integration
Nitro Enclaves and Key Management Service (KMS) feel like a natural fit: since the KMS can verify attestation documents generated by the enclaves, developers...
Hype vs. Reality: What the Hugging Face Incident Means for AI Safety
Discover the security lessons from the recent incident where autonomous AI agents breached Hugging Face infrastructure.
Benchmarking the Agentic SOC: How we evaluate LLMs for security workflows
Public leaderboards can't tell you which LLM to trust in your SOC, so Elastic built an evaluation framework that grades models on the work (tool calls, execu...