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An out-of-bounds read in Ollama’s model quantization path leaks process heap, and the data leaves through Ollama’s own /api/push. The detection problem isn’t the read, it’s that the box almost certainly isn’t logging anything.
An attacker with app-management rights doesn’t need another password. They add their own secret to a trusted service principal and authenticate as the app, outside MFA and outside Conditional Access. Here is what the audit event looks like, what the first round of tuning has to fix, and where the cleanest preventive control hides behind a SKU you probably didn’t buy.
On ESXi the logs that explain how an intruder got root are written to a ramdisk that a reboot erases. Here is where the evidence actually lives, what to detect before it’s gone, and how it maps to the audit-storage controls the architecture violates by default.
Device code phishing produces a clean, MFA-satisfied sign-in on Microsoft’s own infrastructure — and most of the telemetry that betrays it sits in the Entra non-interactive log table teams drop to save money. Here’s where the detection actually lives, how the threshold flips between a Windows shop and a dev-heavy tenant, and the persistence artifacts the closeout always skips.
GTG-1002 showed an AI agent running recon through exfiltration at machine speed across roughly 30 targets. A blue-team analysis of the behavioral tells, the identity and SIEM signals that expose autonomous operations, how to break the adversary’s loop, and where defensive AI agents help versus where the human-in-the-loop line stays.
Encryption-type detancy deton Kerberos TGS requests still catches lazy roasting, but as RC4 gets disabled the durable signal moves to behavior. What to grep for, why the AES downgrade tell degrades, and how to kill service-account false positives before they bury the SOC.
Most teams write their first ClickFix detection against the Windows Run dialog’s RunMRU artifact. FileFix and the App-V proxy variant route around it the next day. Here is the detection that survives, and what the first week of tuning has to fix.
Indirect prompt injection is hard to catch in the prompt and easy to miss in the model output. The reliable detection surface is the outbound fetch the rendered answer triggers — here is how to instrument it and where the false positives come from.
Bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver EDR killers are a standard stage in ransomware intrusions now, not an exotic capability. The driver blocklist is the weakest control you have against them. Here is what to instrument instead.
An MCP server you approved last week can mutate its tool descriptions tonight, and most clients won’t tell you. Here’s how the rug pull works, what to log, and what the detection actually looks like before the false positives bury it.
