Beyond the Prompt: Building Trustworthy Agent Systems

Output validation & guardrails: never trust raw agent output.

Implement strict validation checks before any action is taken or result is presented.

Define clear boundaries for what actions are permissible (e.g., “can read this database but never modify it”).

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Hundreds of Arrests as Operation Sentinel Recovers $3m

The outcomes from Operation Sentinel reflect the commitment of African law enforcement agencies, working in close coordination with international partners.

Their actions have successfully protected livelihoods, secured sensitive personal data and preserved critical infrastructure.

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DarkSub 2025: Top Cybersecurity Tool For Privacy Protection

DarkSub excels in several key areas, including its zero-data retention policy, ensuring users' activity logs remain private.

Its modular design allows users to customize privacy settings based on real-world use cases, such as VPN protection, stealth browsing, or firewall elevation.

Additionally, DarkSub's AI-powered threat detection system provides real-time alerts and predictive insights to stay ahead of emerging threats.

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We would like to say thank you for continously supporting our community throughout the eventful year of 2025.

Together we have managed to reach important milestones and expand our sphere of influence even further around the globe.

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Our team hopes that all the content on this channel was useful and enjoyable for you.

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Thank you once again, and all the best in the New Year of 2026!

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Korean Air Data Compromised in Oracle EBS Hack

Korean Air reportedly confirmed that hackers have stolen the information of roughly 30,000 of its current and former employees from KC&D, including names and bank account numbers.

Customer data was not exposed, the airline said.

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GhostPoster Firefox Extensions Hide Malware in Icons

The extension’s developer used steganography to hide after that marker a loader that reaches a remote command-and-control (C&C) server to retrieve an encrypted payload.

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Conflicting Narratives in Security Incident: Hackers Claim Resecurity Breach, Firm Says Honeypot

According to Resecurity, it detected the threat actor's reconnaissance activities in November 2025.

The firm claims this monitoring led to the identification of the attackers' infrastructure, which was subsequently reported to law enforcement.

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ℹ️ What Security Teams Miss in Email Attacks

In just 12 months, attackers attempted to steal more than $300 million via vendor email compromise (VEC), with 7% of engagements coming from employees who had engaged with a previous attack.

Employees struggle to differentiate between legitimate messages and attacks, especially when those emails appear to come from a trusted vendor.

Employees in the largest organizations, with workforces of 50,000 or more, had the highest rate of second-step engagement with VEC.

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2026 Strategic Cybersecurity Planning: How CISOs Can Build a Future-Proof, Prevention-First Stack

Gartner identifies ten technologies shaping enterprise strategy in 2026. This list includes:

1. AI-Native Development Platforms
2. AI Supercomputing Platforms
3. Confidential Computing
4. Multiagent Systems
5. Domain-Specific Language Models
6. Physical AI
7. Preemptive Cybersecurity
8. Digital Provenance
9. AI Security Platforms
10. Geopatriation

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Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: From Insight to Action

A central theme of the session was the critical role of penetration testing in ensuring medical device security.

Unlike traditional IT testing, medical device pentesting covers a much broader spectrum — from embedded hardware and firmware through industry specific communication interfaces and protocols, to cloud services and hospital network integration.

By embedding penetration testing across all stages of medical device development, deployment, and maintenance, manufacturers can confidently bring secure innovations to market — protecting both patients and the integrity of digital healthcare systems.

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🚨 CastleLoader Attacks Government Agencies, Compromising up to 400+ Devices at Once

Its unusual process hollowing via an AutoIt3 script is hard for EDR to detect.

See full analysis from #ANYRUN with extracted runtime config, C2s, and #IOCs 👇

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The 5 Critical Cybersecurity Controls Every Organization Needs

Administrative accounts represent your organization’s “keys to the kingdom”.

Regular reviews ensure that only necessary personnel have elevated privileges.

Failure to minimize admin accounts and/or eliminate shared accounts can lead to accountability issues during security incidents.

Ensuring all activities are logged and traceable to a single user aids investigations and deters potential compromises.

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120 Data Breach Statistics for 2026

So, here are the 120 data breach stats for 2025.

All the sources we mentioned applies its own methodology, so numbers vary, and we include them all so readers can judge for themselves.

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LastPass Warns Backup Request is Phishing Campaign in Disguise

Company warned of a phishing campaign with false claims that the company is conducting maintenance and asking customers to back up their vaults in the next 24 hours, according to an alert released by the company.

“This campaign is designed to create a false sense of urgency, which is one of the most common and effective tactics we see in phishing attacks,” a spokesperson for LastPass said in a statement.

The spokesperson added that LastPass would never ask customers for their master passwords or demand action under a tight deadline.

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⚡️149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database

Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database with 149 million credentials, including 48M Gmail accounts and 17M Facebook logins.

Fowler suspects the massive collection was assembled using info-stealing malware — malicious software that infects devices and uses techniques like key-logging to capture everything victims type into websites.

Users who reuse passwords across multiple services face compounded risk, since criminals can test stolen credentials against dozens of platforms to find matches.

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🔥 Malware Trends Report 2025 From @anyrun_app is Live!
 
Key Takeaways:

• Phishing, driven by MFA-bypassing PhaaS kits like Tycoon2FA and EvilProxy, evolved into an advanced malicious vector. 

• Lumma and XWorm stayed on top, showing how mature and scalable modern malware ecosystems have become.

• Stealers and RATs still dominate, with activity nearly 3x higher than in 2024.
 
👨‍💻 See which malware families, TTPs, and phishing techniques defined 2025 and what they mean for your security strategy.

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Fortinet Confirms FortiCloud SSO Exploitation Against Patched Devices

"As an additional workaround we recommend disabling the FortiCloud SSO feature.

This will prevent abuse via that method but not a third-party SSO system, so this is recommended only in conjunction with the local-in policy" — Fortinet notes.

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⚡️ ShinyHunters Phishing Spree Steals MFA, Breaches SaaS Apps via SSO attacks

Mandiant says a surge in advanced voice phishing (vishing) tied to ShinyHunters-linked clusters is harvesting single sign-on credentials and multi-factor authentication codes to breach cloud SaaS platforms and siphon sensitive data for extortion, abusing spoofed corporate login flows and bogus credential pages from targeted victims (see vishing breaches and extortion techniques).

“While this methodology of targeting identity providers and SaaS platforms is consistent with our prior observations… the breadth of targeted cloud platforms continues to expand as these threat actors seek more sensitive data for extortion,” Mandiant noted in its threat intelligence report.

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