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Initial Attack Vectors: How Most Cyber Attacks Begin

Jan 8, 2026 By SafeAeon Inc. In SafeAeon
Malicious actors use different tactics to launch cyberattacks, commonly referred to as attack vectors. They exploit misconfigurations, weak controls, and other poor security practices to gain unauthorized access to victims’ systems. There is a document co-authored by cybersecurity authorities from various countries, like the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. It is released by CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency).
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Domains, DNS and Forgotten Risks in Modern Security Stacks

Domains, DNS and Forgotten Risks in Modern Security Stacks

Jan 8, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
When most cybersecurity teams map their threat landscape, they start with endpoints, users, cloud environments and network layers. It's a solid strategy - but it leaves one critical layer wide open: the domain and hosting infrastructure everything else depends on.
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AI-Enabled Cyber Intrusions: What Two Recent Incidents Reveal for Corporate Counsel

Jan 6, 2026 By Daniel Ilan et al. In LevelBlue
This article was authored by Daniel Ilan, Rahul Mukhi, Prudence Buckland, and Melissa Faragasso from Cleary Gottlieb, and Brian Lichter and Elijah Seymour from Stroz Friedberg, a LevelBlue company. Recent disclosures by Anthropic and OpenAI highlight a pivotal shift in the cyber threat landscape: AI is no longer merely a tool that aids attackers, in some cases, it has become the attacker itself.
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Behavioral Threat Detection: Identifying Attacks That Blend into Normal Activity

Jan 6, 2026 By SafeAeon Inc. In SafeAeon
Some attacks are easy to spot. Others aren’t. In many cases, nothing obviously breaks or crashes, and no malware ever shows up. Nothing looks wrong at first. Access appears normal, and systems continue to run as usual. Modern attacks are challenging to detect because attackers often use the same tools and access paths as legitimate users. In addition, attackers remain low-key and use access that appears normal.
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Agentic AI Security: How Microsoft Prevents Autonomous Agent Attacks?

Jan 6, 2026 By Protecto In Protecto
As agentic AI systems move into the mainstream—powered by tool calling, MCP, and autonomous workflows—security is no longer a “nice to have.” It’s mission-critical. In this episode, we sit down with Raji, Principal Engineer & Manager for AI and Safety at Microsoft, to deep-dive into the rapidly evolving world of AI security, autonomous agents, and enterprise governance. Discover how Microsoft identifies and mitigates risks in agentic AI, distinguishes AI Security vs AI Safety, and enables organizations to deploy autonomous systems safely at scale—without slowing innovation.
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Beaconing Detection: How Attackers Stay Hidden

Jan 1, 2026 By SafeAeon Inc. In SafeAeon
Attackers, after an initial compromise, look to remain inside a network for as long as possible. For this, they use different methods. Beaconing is one of the common techniques used to maintain this access. Beaconing activity can easily blend into normal traffic and can remain unnoticed for long periods. Therefore, it is important for IT and security teams to understand how beaconing works in order to effectively carry out beaconing detection and response.
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Account Takeover Prevention for Credit Unions: What Actually Works in 2026

Jan 1, 2026 By Julian Agudelo In Memcyco
Account takeover prevention for credit unions has reached an inflection point. One concept underpins most modern failures: the timing gap, the period between a member engaging with a scam or impersonation interaction and the moment a security or fraud team becomes aware of risk. During this gap, access is often treated as legitimate even though compromise has already occurred.
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