Agent AI is Coming. Are You Ready?

New Industry Data Just Released Suggests Not. On May 19th, 2026, Orchid Security released the results of our Identity Gap: Snapshot 2026. Among the findings, "identity dark matter" the unseen, unmanaged elements of identity now overshadows the visible elements 57% vs. 43%. And it couldn't have...

Your AI Agents Are Already Inside the Perimeter. Do You Know What They're Doing?

Analysts recently confirmed what identity security teams have quietly feared: AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can govern them. In their inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, Gartner states that “enterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating, outpacing maturity of...

Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP)

The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, decentralized teams, machine identities, and autonomous systems. The result is Identity Dark Matter...

[Webinar] How to Close Identity Gaps in 2026 Before AI Exploits Enterprise Risk

In the rapid evolution of the 2026 threat landscape, a frustrating paradox has emerged for CISOs and security leaders: Identity programs are maturing, yet the risk is actually increasing. According to new research from the Ponemon Institute , hundreds of applications within the typical enterprise...

AI Agents: The Next Wave Identity Dark Matter - Powerful, Invisible, and Unmanaged

The Rise of MCPs in the Enterprise The Model Context Protocol MCP is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, and data, MCP enables prompt-driven AI agents that can retrieve information, take action, and automa...

Orchid Security Introduces Continuous Identity Observability for Enterprise Applications

An innovative approach to discovering, analyzing, and governing identity usage beyond traditional IAM controls. The Challenge: Identity Lives Outside the Identity Stack Identity and access management tools were built to govern users and directories. Modern enterprises run on applications. Over...

EUVD-2025-175514

Malicious code in xenobiology-darkmatter-fermion-io npm...

MAL-2025-34141 Malicious code in sublimation-ionosphere-quasar-darkmatter (npm)

The package sublimation-ionosphere-quasar-darkmatter was found to contain malicious code...

darkmatternews.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2983175

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification – WindTail (OSX)

Summary Dark Matter researcher Taha Karim recently presented his research on the APT group WindShift at Hack in the Box Singapore. This group primarily focuses on highly targeted campaigns directed toward Middle Eastern government and commercial entities. One of the custom macOS backdoors employe...

Wikileaks Unveils CIA's Man-in-the-Middle Attack Tool

Wikileaks has published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, detailing a man-in-the-middle MitM attack tool allegedly created by the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA to target local networks. Since March, WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents and other secret tools that the...

WikiLeaks Dark Matter Release Shows CIA Interdiction of iPhone Supply Chain

From the early days of the iPhone, the CIA has had an interest in compromising the flagship Apple mobile device, according to the latest WikiLeaks release of CIA documents. Today’s Vault 7 Dark Matter release shows an unsurprising interest from the intelligence agency in tracking iPhone users, as...

Wikileaks Reveals How CIA Was Hacking Your iPhones And MacBooks

As part of its "Vault 7" series, Wikileaks — the popular whistle-blowing platform — has just released another batch of classified documents focused on exploits and hacking techniques the Central Intelligence Agency CIA designed to target Apple MacOS and iOS devices. Dubbed "Dark Matter," the leak...