Microsoft PlayReady Activation Protocol Issues

This advisory builds on prior disclosed work in 2022 regarding Microsoft PlayReady protocol issues that can lead to leaf certificate generation using fake identities...

CVE-2025-54996 OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 2.3.1 and below, accounts with access to highly-privileged identity entity systems in root namespaces were able to increase their scope directly to...

Securing Agentic AI: How to Protect the Invisible Identity Access

AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI agent spins up a workflow, it has to authenticate somewhere; often with a high-privilege API key, OAuth token, or service account that defenders can't easily see. These "invisible"...

GHSA-7PGW-Q3QP-6PGQ DynamicPageList3 vulnerability exposes hidden/suppressed usernames

Summary Several dpl parameters can leak usernames that have been hidden using revision deletion, suppression, or the hideuser block flag. Details The parameters adduser, addauthor, and addlasteditor output the page creator or last editor using the %USER% placeholder. These display the actual...

Leveraging Credentials As Unique Identifiers: A Pragmatic Approach To NHI Inventories 

Identity-based attacks are on the rise. Attacks in which malicious actors assume the identity of an entity to easily gain access to resources and sensitive data have been increasing in number and frequency over the last few years. Some recent reports estimate that 83% of attacks involve compromis...

The vulnerability of the edna Chat Center’s customer request processing system, related to the improper handling of exceptional states, allows a violator to determine the true identities of users.

The vulnerability of the edna Chat Center’s customer request processing system is related to the improper handling of exceptional states. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to determine the true identities of users...

AI Agents Run on Secret Accounts — Learn How to Secure Them in This Webinar

AI is changing everything — from how we code, to how we sell, to how we secure. But while most conversations focus on what AI can do, this one focuses on what AI can break — if you're not paying attention. Behind every AI agent, chatbot, or automation script lies a growing number of non-human...

Non-Human Identities: How to Address the Expanding Security Risk

Human identities management and control is pretty well done with its set of dedicated tools, frameworks, and best practices. This is a very different world when it comes to Non-human identities also referred to as machine identities. GitGuardian's end-to-end NHI security platform is here to close...

The Hidden Threat in Your Stack: Why Non-Human Identity Management is the Next Cybersecurity Frontier

Modern enterprise networks are highly complex environments that rely on hundreds of apps and infrastructure services. These systems need to interact securely and efficiently without constant human oversight, which is where non-human identities NHIs come in. NHIs — including application secrets, A...

Think Your IdP or CASB Covers Shadow IT? These 5 Risks Prove Otherwise

You don’t need a rogue employee to suffer a breach. All it takes is a free trial that someone forgot to cancel. An AI-powered note-taker quietly syncing with your Google Drive. A personal Gmail account tied to a business-critical tool. That’s shadow IT. And today, it’s not just about unsanctioned...

Aembit Extends Workload IAM to Microsoft Ecosystem, Securing Hybrid Access for Non-Human Identities

Silver Spring, Maryland, 3rd June 2025, CyberNewsWire...

Transaction Proximity: a Graph-Based Approach to Blockchain Fraud Prevention

This paper introduces a fraud-deterrent access validation system for public blockchains, leveraging two complementary concepts: "Transaction Proximity", which measures the distance between wallets in the transaction graph, and "Easily Attainable Identities EAIs", wallets with direct transaction...

AI Agents and the Non‑Human Identity Crisis: How to Deploy AI More Securely at Scale

Artificial intelligence is driving a massive shift in enterprise productivity, from GitHub Copilot's code completions to chatbots that mine internal knowledge bases for instant answers. Each new agent must authenticate to other services, quietly swelling the population of non‑human identities NHI...

CVE-2024-8754

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions from 16.9.7 prior to 17.1.7, 17.2 prior to 17.2.5, and 17.3 prior to 17.3.2. An improper input validation error allows attacker to squat on accounts via linking arbitrary unclaimed provider identities when JWT authentication is...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-47779

Asterisk is an open-source private branch exchange PBX. Prior to versions 18.26.2, 20.14.1, 21.9.1, and 22.4.1 of Asterisk and versions 18.9-cert14 and 20.7-cert5 of certified-asterisk, SIP requests of the type MESSAGE RFC 3428 authentication do not get proper alignment. An authenticated attacker...

On the Day They Experience: Awakening Self-Sovereign Experiential AI Agents

Drawing on Andrew Parker's "Light Switch" theory-which posits that the emergence of vision ignited a Cambrian explosion of life by driving the evolution of hard parts necessary for survival and fueling an evolutionary arms race between predators and prey-this essay speculates on an analogous...

North Korean Hackers Stole $88M by Posing as US Tech Workers

Flashpoint uncovers how North Korean hackers used fake identities to secure remote IT jobs in the US, siphoning…...

dotnet: .NET and Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability

A flaw was found in .NET and Visual Studio. This vulnerability allows an attacker to use specially crafted input to spoof trusted content or identities, potentially misleading users or systems. This issue requires user interaction and limited privileges but can lead to unauthorized actions or...

dotnet: .NET and Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability

A flaw was found in .NET and Visual Studio. This vulnerability allows an attacker to use specially crafted input to spoof trusted content or identities, potentially misleading users or systems. This issue requires user interaction and limited privileges but can lead to unauthorized actions or...

dotnet: .NET and Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability

A flaw was found in .NET and Visual Studio. This vulnerability allows an attacker to use specially crafted input to spoof trusted content or identities, potentially misleading users or systems. This issue requires user interaction and limited privileges but can lead to unauthorized actions or...