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The Talos 2025 Year in Review highlights a significant shift towards attackers targeting identity infrastructure and network components to bypass MFA and gain privileged access. Key threats include widespread exploitation of React2Shell, supply chain attacks targeting CI/CD pipelines, and the dominance of Qilin ransomware.
Huntress has introduced a new Incident Report Timeline feature for its Managed ITDR platform to combat rapid, identity-driven data exfiltration in cloud environments. This feature provides a chronological narrative of attacker actions and response efforts, enabling faster decision-making and better communication for security teams and MSPs.
AI Rush Opens New Attack Paths as Trusted Cloud Services Fuel Phishing The rush to adopt artificial intelligence is giving attackers two new advantages: convincing lures to trick users and poorly secured infrastructure to exploit. This week, multiple campaigns used fake websites for the Claude AI assistant to infect victims with password-stealing malware, while researchers revealed that commercial robots and AI connection protocols contain critical flaws that let hackers hijack them. Because organizations are deploying AI tools faster than they can secure them, attackers are finding easy entry points into corporate networks. In parallel, phishing campaigns are increasingly hijacking trusted cloud services like Amazon's email platform and Vercel's AI-powered website builder to send messages that bypass security filters entirely. A massive campaign targeting US employees used fake HR reviews to steal login sessions even when multi-factor authentication was enabled, and the breach of the Canvas learning platform exposed data on 275 million people that can now be used for highly convincing follow-up scams. These trends together suggest that traditional defenses are losing effectiveness because attackers are hiding inside the systems we already trust. Organizations should immediately patch the actively exploited Palo Alto Networks and Ivanti vulnerabilities flagged by CISA this week, require phishing-resistant authentication methods, and treat every AI tool and robot connected to their network as a high-risk device that needs strict monitoring.
