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The Hacker News

Forg365 PhaaS Targets Microsoft 365 with Device Code and AitM Session Theft

A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called Forg365 is using a combination of device code phishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) tactics, antibot evasion, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted lure creation, and post-compromise mailbox operations targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. Distributed via Telegram and costing $400 a month (or $3,800 per year), attack chains leverage phishing

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DZone

Building Reliable Async Processing Pipelines Using Temporal

Asynchronous processing pipelines are a cornerstone of modern distributed systems, but wiring them together reliably can be complex. A typical pipeline built with queues or message brokers requires custom retry logic, dead-letter queues, cron recovery jobs, and database status flags to ensure every step eventually succeeds.  Temporal replaces this heavy plumbing with durable workflows. In a Temporal workflow, the business logic of the pipeline is written as ordinary sequential code, yet it execu

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Cloudflare Blog

Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals

Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for legitimate users.

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SecurityWeek

Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in June 2026

Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by 1Password, Accenture, Cisco, F5, Rubrik, and SailPoint. The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in June 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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DZone

Goodbye, Skeleton Keys: Why Machine Identity Broke IAM, and What SPIFFE Is Doing About It

Cloudflare published its own forensic timeline of the Salesloft Drift breach down to the minute, and it's worth sitting with the detail for a second.  At 11:51 on August 9, 2025, an actor researchers track as GRUB1 tried to validate a stolen Cloudflare API token against the Salesforce API using TruffleHog's user-agent string — a tool built for finding leaked secrets, repurposed here to confirm one actually worked. That attempt failed. At 22:14, it didn't.

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