From Specification to Deployment: Empirical Evidence from a W3C VC + DID Trust Infrastructure for Autonomous Agents

Autonomous AI agents now transact at production scale -- 69,000 bots executing 165 million transactions across 50 million USDC in cumulative volume on a single marketplace -- without any shared trust layer between participants. Regulatory frameworks Singapore IMDA, NIST CAISI, EU AI Act and major...

AgentRFC: Security Design Principles and Conformance Testing for Agent Protocols

AI agent protocols -- including MCP, A2A, ANP, and ACP -- enable autonomous agents to discover capabilities, delegate tasks, and compose services across trust boundaries. Despite massive deployment MCP alone has 97M+ monthly SDK downloads, no systematic security framework for these protocols...

How Security Tool Misuse Is Reshaping Cloud Compromise

Key Takeaways Legitimate secret-scanning tools such as TruffleHog have been operationalized in real-world cloud attack campaigns. Attack progression commonly follows a repeatable sequence: credential discovery, live validation, permission enumeration, and data access. Exposed long-lived access ke...

Aembit Extends Secretless CI/CD with Credential Lifecycle Management for GitLab

Silver Spring, USA / Maryland, 26th August 2025, CyberNewsWire...