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BleepingComputer

How AI-powered phishing killed blocklists for good

AI is helping attackers create disposable phishing infrastructure and rapidly evolving toolkits that blocklists cannot track fast enough. Push Security explains why browser-level, technique-based detection offers a more durable defense than relying on domains, signatures, and other known-bad indicators. [...]

Security
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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

The Retry Budget Pattern: How to Stop Retry Storms in API-Led and Microservice Systems

The Production Story Several years ago, my team made a decision that felt obviously correct: If a downstream call fails, retry it. More retries, more resilience. We set three retries on every integration touching our order-fulfillment platform, shipped it on a Thursday, and went home feeling good about our reliability posture. Six weeks later, retries were the single largest source of traffic in the platform.

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The Hacker News

Trojanized npm Packages Employ NullReceiver Tactic to Decode C2 IP from Blockchain

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an evolution of the EtherHiding blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) technique that conceals the C2 server IP address inside a made-up destination address of a completely empty Ethereum transfer. The new dead drop resolver approach, observed in two trojanized npm packages "bianira-ui" and "fluid-type-ui," has been codenamed NullReceiver by

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ExternalCloud
Cloudflare Blog

The Agent Access Model

The Agent Access Model proposes a new architecture to secure task-scoped agents using strict identity brokering, continuous mediation, and stateful trust.

AgentsAgents WeekAI
Cloudflare BlogRead original

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