Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

I’ve spent my career building and defending. I’ve seen the beauty of innovation and the brutality of cyber warfare. I’ve sat shoulder-to-shoulder with security engineers and platform teams in the trenches at 3AM responding to state-backed attacks where context and speed meant survival. In those moments, one truth becomes painfully clear: With AI, that gap just became a chasm. Agentic AI didn’t bend the rules of software — it rewrote them. Code now evolves in real time.

Threat actors are abusing X’s generative AI bot Grok to spread phishing links, according to researchers at ESET. The attackers achieve this by tricking Grok into thinking it’s answering a question, and providing a link in its answer. “In this attack campaign, threat actors circumvent X’s ban on links in promoted posts (designed to fight malvertising) by running video card posts featuring clickbait videos,” ESET says.

Cybernews warns that threat actors will likely take advantage of the recent AWS outage to launch phishing attacks against affected users. Attackers frequently exploit high-profile events to carry out social engineering attacks while people are confused or stressed, as these users are more likely to act without careful consideration.

API security has never been more important because modern APIs are operational necessities. Unfortunately, many organizations are failing to adapt their security models to a rapidly changing API threat landscape. Like it or not, we live in an AI-first world, and API security must reflect that reality. The Postman 2025 State of API Report is confirmation of that fact.

AI systems learn from vast amounts of data and then generalize. That power is useful and also risky. Sensitive data can slip into prompts. Proprietary datasets can be memorized by models. Attackers can steer models to reveal secrets or corrupt results. Meanwhile, your company is probably experimenting with multiple AI tools at once. That creates hidden data flows and inconsistent controls. “Traditional” app security isn’t enough.

Organizations continue their digital transformation, with APIs now serving as the main communication links between applications, platforms, services, and partners. The widespread use of APIs introduces new security risks despite their common presence. The growing number of APIs significantly increases the cyber risks that security teams must address as they keep up with technological advances.