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ResearchOnly 11% of AI agents deployed in production meet high security standards. This statistic should alarm you, but what s more concerning is why the other 89% fail — and how similar the mistakes are acro
ResearchYour security team approved an OAuth app six months ago. The publisher s domain is now parked. The app still has read access to your company s Google Drive. This isn t a hypothetical. An OhAuth audit
ResearchReliaQuest has identified a threat cluster named OP-512 deploying custom web shell frameworks against Microsoft IIS servers, with moderate to high confidence attribution to China-based actors. The fra
ResearchYour package.json scripts are clean. Your lockfile passes integrity checks. You run npm audit before every deployment. Yet, you re still vulnerable to the attack vector that compromised 281 npm packag
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ResearchSocket s research into the TrapDoor campaign reveals a critical issue your security team may have overlooked: developer workstations are now high-value targets. These workstations often run unmonitore
ResearchYou found a Google API key in a public GitHub repo. You deleted it immediately. Your work is done, right? Not for the next 23 minutes. Aikido Security s research confirms that deleted Google API keys
ResearchA security researcher deleted a Google API key and watched it authenticate successfully for the next 23 minutes. The provider s documentation claimed immediate deactivation. This gap between promise a
ResearchYour team ships code 55% faster with AI assistance. But when that code breaks in production at 2 AM, can they fix it? This isn t a hypothetical problem. According to Octopus Deploy research, 73% of or
ResearchImagine your team just renewed all your domains. Six months later, one expires because the credit card on file failed. A week after that, someone else registers it. They now control a domain that your
ResearchAbout six months ago, questions began surfacing in our Slack channels as teams started deploying RAG pipelines to production. A security engineer discovered that their vector database contained custom
ResearchWhen Anthropic released Claude in Chrome, your security team may have assumed the extension would follow the same isolation model as other browser extensions. This assumption was incorrect. LayerX Sec
ResearchBetween July 16 and 22, 2025, three malicious packages—uuid32-utils, colorinal, and termncolor—were on PyPI delivering ZiChatBot malware. They ve been removed, but new threats are constantly emerging.
ResearchWhen a repository triggers code execution before you ve reviewed a single line, your development environment becomes an attack surface. The TrustFall vulnerability in Claude Code highlights this risk:
ResearchUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth researchers have introduced VulStyle, a model that detects vulnerabilities by analyzing coding style rather than just syntax or semantics. Pre-trained on approxim
ResearchThe Problem: Hidden Threats in VS Code Extensions Recently, Socket researchers found 72 malicious Open VSX extensions impersonating popular tools like ESLint and Prettier. The GlassWorm campaign explo
ResearchYour developers installed a linter yesterday. Your security team approved a formatting extension last week. Both could be exfiltrating your source code right now. Socket recently identified 73 fake VS
