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Cloudflare Blog

Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack

Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new Adaptive Intelligence engine flips this dynamic by autonomously learning from the meta-signals of live traffic and deploying disposable rules, making automated attacks too expensive to sustain.

Application SecurityBot ManagementMachine Learning
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The Hacker News

ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese desktop-wallpaper tool

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SecurityWeek

Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections

The AI giant is logging customers out of their accounts and removing payment data to prevent unauthorized Claude usage. The post Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Artificial IntelligenceMalware & ThreatsAI
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DZone

Secure AI Systems: Defending Enterprise Applications Against Agent-Era Threats

The rise of autonomous AI agents within business software demands a fresh approach to security. Unlike earlier chatbot tools, modern agents act with real privileges, such as updating databases, calling microservices, composing and even executing code, or triggering workflows on their own. This shift expands the blast radius of any flaw or compromise. As one Microsoft analysis observes, today’s AI agents “can update database records, trigger enterprise workflows, access sensitive data, and intera

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The Hacker News

Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated with the Russian-speaking cybercrime group, leading to the discovery of its

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