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By Stacey Nosan
The emergence of the CRINK axis—a coordinated cyber-threat nexus comprised of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea—has dramatically impacted the 2026 global risk landscape. As these nation-states utilize AI-driven scale and living-off-the-land (LOTL) tactics to target critical infrastructure, SafeBreach’s new content series provides essential intelligence on their evolving motivations and methods.
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By SafeBreach
Dirty Frag (comprising CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500) is a high-impact Linux kernel vulnerability chain that enables deterministic, reliable local privilege escalation (LPE) to root across major enterprise distributions. Unlike previous race-condition exploits, this logic flaw in the IPsec ESP and RxRPC subsystems offers a near 100% success rate, allowing attackers to escalate from a minor foothold to full system control without triggering typical kernel panics.
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By Uzi Galili
CVE-2026-31431— the “Copy Fail” vulnerability—is a critical local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw in the Linux kernel’s cryptographic subsystem that allows unprivileged users to gain root access with near-perfect reliability. Boasting a CVSS score of 7.8 and affecting nearly every mainstream distribution since 2017 (including Ubuntu, RHEL, and Amazon Linux), Copy Fail has been added to the CISA KEV catalog due to its active exploitation and portable, low-footprint nature.
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By SafeBreach
SafeBreach Helm is a pioneering AI agent designed to operationalize the complete Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) lifecycle by unifying SafeBreach’s industry-leading adversarial exposure validation (AEV) capabilities with data and insights from across an organization’s existing security ecosystem.
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By Yossi Attas
In the fifth installment of SafeBreach’s AI-First series, VP of Development Yossi Attas explores how the development team’s AI-First philosophy is being extended to the customer frontier and improved upon through the Anti-Hallucination Protocol.
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By Yossi Attas
In the fourth installment of SafeBreach’s AI-First evolution series, VP of Development Yossi Attas and Principal Software Design Engineer Guy Ephraim explore how test-driven development (TDD) serves as the essential “safety net” for high-speed AI code generation.
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By Yossi Attas
In the third installment of SafeBreach’s AI-First development series, VP of Development Yossi Attas explores the resurgence of the Product Requirements Document (PRD) as the foundational “control surface” for AI-assisted engineering.
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By Tova Dvorin
SafeBreach Senior Product Marketing Manager Tova Dvorin explores the critical necessity of continuous validation in Zero Trust architectures, specifically focusing on the integration of SafeBreach and Akamai Guardicore. While microsegmentation is a foundational element in the defense against lateral movement and ransomware propagation, dynamic infrastructure and policy drift often create “blind spots” that compromise security posture.
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By Yossi Attas
In this second installment of a series on the transformation of SafeBreach’s development organization, VP of Development Yossi Attas details a structured operational workflow that integrates Jira, BitBucket, and Claude Code to turn AI usage from ad-hoc prompting into a rigorous engineering methodology.
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By Uzi Galili
The new SafeBreach extension for VS Code integrates Breach Studio’s powerful custom attack development capabilities directly into the world’s most popular IDE to enable security teams to engineer custom attack simulations with unprecedented speed and precision. Security engineers can leverage Git-native version control, AI-assisted authoring, and real-time IntelliSense linting to eliminate friction and reduce failed executions.
Research - From Square Root to /root: Escalating Privileges in Azure Containers with Python in Excel
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By SafeBreach
Isolation is not the same thing as security. Ron Ben Yizhak from SafeBreach Labs presented this research at Black Hat USA and DEF CON: when Microsoft shipped Python in Excel, the code didn't run on a machine. It ran in an isolated container in Azure. So he asked the obvious question. How isolated is it, really? An isolated environment still has an attack surface. It just moves. See how Ron: If your teams are evaluating cloud-executed code features, this one is worth the full read—the methodology matters as much as the findings.
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By SafeBreach
An AI orchestration harness called SecFlow told itself an exploit had worked—then burned 27 follow-on tasks on a foothold that never existed. Listen to Ep.
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By SafeBreach
A math function in Excel became a path to root in Microsoft's cloud. SafeBreach Labs researcher Ron Ben Yizhak reverse-engineered the isolated Azure containers behind Microsoft's Python in Excel feature—and found the "isolated" part didn't fully hold. Cloud isolation claims are a trust boundary. Trust boundaries get tested. What he found: Both issues were responsibly disclosed to Microsoft and patched between March and June 2026, and the research debuted at DEF CON 34.
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By SafeBreach
A voice note from your CFO on WhatsApp. Her cadence, her urgency—and a reference to a confidential acquisition discussed in a real meeting last Tuesday. North Korea's Blue Noroff builds these backwards: compromise a junior employee's calendar or inbox first, then train a voice model on the stolen context. By the time anyone thinks to verify, the emergency transfer is already sitting in an offshore account.
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By SafeBreach
North Korea has stopped writing bad phishing emails. In Part 2 of our DPRK deep dive, Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley break down how the Reconnaissance General Bureau and Bureau 121 weaponized AI in 2026: Blue Noroff cloning a CFO's voice to authorize emergency liquidity transfers, real-time face swaps passing DevOps job interviews, and Lazarus using LLMs to polymorph BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret for every single target.
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By SafeBreach
SafeBreach Helm and Anvilogic help security teams accelerate the path from exposure to detection. SafeBreach Helm brings three AI agents together behind a plain-English interface: Analysis Agent — Prioritizes exposures based on real-world risk Validation Agent — Proves which exposures are actually exploitable by running real attacks SecOps Agent — Turns validated gaps into actionable fixes and works with Anvilogic to close the detection gap.
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By SafeBreach
CISA's own red team ran two critical-infrastructure assessments at once — and got opposite results. Host Tova Dvorin and SafeBreach offensive security engineer Adrian Culley break down advisory AA26-237A: how an ESC1 certificate template flaw and a default machine account quota chained into full domain compromise, why one SOC isolated three infected workstations in 10 minutes while the other never noticed, and the cloud identity gaps both organizations shared.
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By SafeBreach
Having the right security platform is only part of the equation. Two organizations can have similar security stacks and still achieve very different outcomes depending on how they operationalize their Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program. In this video, learn what separates reactive, ad hoc security validation from a mature CTEM program—including: See how a structured CTEM program can turn continuous security validation into measurable progress across your organization.
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By SafeBreach
Medusa ransomware has went from 300 victims to more than 500, and CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC just refreshed advisory AA25-071A with new IOCs and TTPs. Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley unpack the ransomware-as-a-service franchise behind it: the ScreenConnect and Fortinet EMS CVEs still opening doors, three tiers of PowerShell obfuscation, gaze.exe killing shadow copies before AES-256 encryption, and the triple-extortion case where one victim was made to pay twice.
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By SafeBreach
The FBI documented a Medusa ransomware victim who paid the ransom—and was then contacted by a second, separate Medusa actor, claiming the original negotiator had stolen the payment and demanding half the ransom again for the "true" decryptor. That's triple extortion, and it's the strongest argument in the whole CISA/FBI/MS-ISAC advisory (AA25-071A) against paying at all. There is no guarantee the extortion stops when the money moves.
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By SafeBreach
Today's CISOs and security teams must constantly validate security controls to identify gaps, remediate misconfigurations, and optimize performance against a rapidly increasing threat landscape. Breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions-designed to continuously test the effectiveness of security controls and identify potential vulnerabilities-have emerged as a powerful tool to help organizations navigate this new reality. But not all BAS platforms are created equal.
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By SafeBreach
The mission of today's security teams is clear: protect the company from emerging cyber threats. What's less clear is how to ensure stakeholders understand the impact of their programs. Traditional security reporting focuses on threats and vulnerabilities and how many were stopped and prevented, but non-technical stakeholders-who are concerned with the business's bottom line and how these threats can impact business continuity-need to know how these activities translate to tangible business values. As risk is tied to revenue, security teams need a simple way to understand and share the real efficacy of their programs with their stakeholders.
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By SafeBreach
There are a number of security validation methods available on the market today, but each has different uses and functions. And, not all of them are appropriate in every IT environment. As a result, many organizations waste time and resources on technologies or approaches that may work well for others, but aren't a good fit for their specific use case.
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By SafeBreach
Starting a red-team program but not sure where to begin? Looking to improve your existing red-team operation? Before getting too far in the cyber weeds, go back to the basics with "The Fundamentals of Modern Cybersecurity Red Teaming."
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By SafeBreach
2022 saw a dramatic increase in the prevalence, severity, and impact of cyberattacks, presenting a striking new reality for CISOs and their security teams. They were-and continue to be-in a constant race against time to improve security and performance.
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By SafeBreach
Modern SOCs are complex environments with dozens of tools, overlapping teams, and a constantly growing attack surface to protect. To combat these challenges and keep up with the rapidly evolving threat landscape, security leaders must constantly strive to improve SOC efficiency and keep team members engaged.
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Combining the mindset of a CISO and the toolset of a hacker, SafeBreach is the pioneer in breach-and-attack simulation (BAS) and is the most widely used platform for continuous security validation. SafeBreach continuously executes attacks, correlates results to help visualize security gaps, and leverages contextual insights to highlight remediation efforts.
With its Hacker’s Playbook™, the industry’s most extensive collection of attack data enabled by state-of-the-art threat intelligence research, SafeBreach empowers organizations to get proactive about security with a simple approach that replaces hope with data.
Unleash the power of your security controls to drive down risk.
- Attack with Purpose: Execute real-world attacks safely and continuously to identify what your security controls will prevent, detect, or miss.
- Analyze with Real-Time Data: Gain a quantitative view of your security posture by visualizing security-control performance data that’s not available anywhere else.
- Remediate with Intention: Review actionable data to quickly identify gaps, expedite remediation, and efficiently reduce risk.
- Report with Confidence: Communicate to key stakeholders with clear insights to quantify risk, prioritize investments, and ensure strategic alignment.
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