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This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Vectra AI launches Hunt Club Defenders Month: a celebration of defenders with SOC stories, Attack Labs, and workshops.

AI coding agents authenticate with valid credentials and move across your pipeline without triggering your detection stack. Here's why, and what closing that gap requires.

ShinyHunters breached the FBI's jobs portal using a patched Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability, bypassing firewall rules organizations deployed after the June wave. Here's what changed, and what didn't.

The ECB wants AI cyber threat action plans by 31 October. Four ways to prepare: cut exposure, secure AI agents, see unmanaged devices, speed up your SOC.

Discover the Vectra AI Ascent Partner Program, built to help resellers, MSSPs, technology partners, and solution providers grow, enable, and succeed.

Five recent intrusions filed under AI attacks. One compressed ten hours of known techniques into a chain no single log could see. None needed a new one.

A victim of the TeamPCP campaign said it had rotated every credential. A researcher tested them under the org's own disclosure policy. Almost all still worked.

Detecting initial access is a signal fidelity problem. Most identity tooling gets it wrong in both directions, drowning analysts in noise while missing real compromises.

See how security observability helps teams turn network, identity and cloud data into meaningful insights, improve visibility and reduce security exposure.

Learn how to design security dashboards around the decisions teams need to make, turning complex security data into clearer insights and actionable next steps.

Discover Vectra AI Pro and how trusted attack signal helps security teams respond at AI speed, eliminate blind spots, and close attack paths.

A cryptographic inventory won't tell you what to fix first. Learn how live TLS and SSH visibility turns post-quantum readiness into a measurable program.

Vectra AI is FedRAMP High certified, bringing AI-native security and unified observability to federal agencies and mission-critical environments.

earn how Vectra AI helps SOC analysts reduce investigation latency with AI-assisted search, incident analysis, contextual intelligence, and AI-powered workflows.

Inbox rules can reveal account compromise. Learn how Vectra MDR uses behavioral analysis to detect Microsoft 365 attacks with greater accuracy.

An autonomous AI agent compromised Hugging Face over a weekend. Another AI caught it in an hour. What the first real agentic attack teaches defenders.

Learn how continuous visibility, contextual prioritization, and remediation validation help security teams reduce attack surface and operationalize threat exposure management.

Discover how SOC teams can use AI to reduce investigation time, improve post-compromise detection, and accelerate incident response against AI-powered attackers.

Vectra AI was named AI Security Solution of the Year. Learn why trusted signal intelligence is the foundation of an effective Agentic SOC.

Vectra AI + Endace pair AI-native detection with full packet capture, giving federal and financial teams packet-level evidence for defensible investigations.

Learn how Gamma uses AI-powered correlation and context to detect AI-driven attacks faster across network, identity, and cloud.

As John Watts, the Gartner VP Analyst presenting the ThreatScape, put it: cybersecurity leaders must be able to find the threat signal in all the noise. This piece is one read of that signal.

AI changes cybersecurity UX. Learn why SOCs must evolve from alert-driven dashboards to behavior-driven defense at machine speed.

TeamPCP collected 500,000+ cloud credentials from CI/CD pipelines before anyone was targeted. VECT used that archive to select ransomware victims. Why your exposure may already be determined.

An FBI complaint against a Scattered Spider member documents a full help-desk attack: vishing, an MFA reset, ngrok exfiltration, and why authentication succeeded at every step.

FortiBleed exposed valid logins for 86,644 Fortinet firewalls. No CVE, nothing to patch. Why a working login slips past prevention, and where to catch it.

Cloud security challenges aren't caused by lack of visibility. Learn why correlating identity, control-plane, and network activity across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI is critical for detecting modern cloud attacks.

Learn how security teams are using AI agents, MCP, and AI-assisted investigations to improve SOC operations, reduce analyst workload, and accelerate threat response.

Four signed drivers. Three had documented CVEs. None on the blocklist. How DragonForce used the kernel signing pipeline to disable security tools.

A year of AI-enabled attacker activity, what it tells us about where attacks are headed, and where detection holds up.

AI agents, service accounts, and automation are the new insider threat. Learn how artificial insiders create risk at machine speed.

The Security Event Horizon explains where prevention ends and detection, context, and response become critical to stopping attacks.

Security teams aren’t short on exposure management tools. There are asset inventories, vulnerability scanners, EDR, cloud security platforms, identity systems, attack surface management (ASM) platforms, and SIEMs. Each one provides a piece of insight into the environment.

Modern attackers evade decryption, reputation checks, and beacon detection. Learn how Vectra AI uses behavioral AI to detect hidden command-and-control activity.

Explore five key Gartner SRM 2026 trends shaping cybersecurity, from AI-driven defense and identity security to cyber resilience.

Conti to The Gentlemen: four ransomware leaks, four years. The operators evolved. The gaps stayed exactly where they were. What CISOs should do next.

Discover how Zscaler and Vectra AI deliver modern network protection with Zero Trust, AI-driven detection, and unified visibility.

Azure’s Hidden Operators: A Threat Model for Platform-Level Managed Identities

AI isn't new to Vectra AI. Discover why we're making it more visible now and what it means for modern cybersecurity.

A Vectra AI CEO perspective on the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for NDR, and what it reveals about the future of AI-driven network security.

AI adoption is no longer a future planning exercise. It's happening inside the AI Enterprise.

Learn how Vectra AI’s Investigate API delivers security telemetry and evidence into SIEM and SOAR workflows for faster investigations.

Learn why SIEM and SOAR integrations fail and how Vectra AI improves security automation with context-rich alerts and reliable workflows.

TeamPCP open-sourced Shai-Hulud today. The OIDC token extraction technique that made the TanStack attack different from every previous campaign is now a public toolkit.

Learn how Vectra AI improves SIEM and SOAR workflows with behavior-driven signal, investigation-ready telemetry, and better security orchestration.

ShinyHunters isn't a single group. It's a pattern of attacks where authentication succeeds. Here's how to detect them before the data warehouse.

Learn how Vectra AI uses AI to secure the AI enterprise—reducing risk, accelerating detection, and enabling faster, more confident response.

AI agents are becoming the new workforce, and a new attack surface. Learn the risks they introduce and how to maintain visibility and control at AI speed.

Why Modern Threat Scoring Must Reflect Attacker Progression

Claude Mythos and GenAI are reshaping security — discover why faster exploits, endless patching, and resilient detection now define defense.

Identity-based attacks are increasing across hybrid environments. Learn how to detect compromised identities before attackers move laterally.

Claude Mythos accelerates risk—not just hype. Learn what CISOs must focus on now: visibility, speed, and understanding attacks as they unfold.

This blog explains how Microsoft's shift from the legacy Azure Diagnostics Agent to the Azure Monitor Agent fundamentally changes how VM logging is controlled and highlights how this redesign can introduce detection blind spots if security teams don't update their monitoring approach.

Three leaked Windows Defender exploits are now hitting real enterprise targets. Here is what the attack chain looks like, why endpoint tools alone cannot contain it, and where the Vectra AI Platform with RUX surfaces it before the damage is done.

AI-assisted search lets analysts ask investigative or hunting questions in plain language.

Discover four key ways AI can enhance SOC efficiency by improving alert accuracy, optimizing investigations, automating threat hunting, and prioritizing high-risk threats.

If you ask security analysts to describe the biggest pain points in their role, you will no doubt get a diverse set of answers. One thing that they will almost certainly have in common is the challenge of dealing with alert fatigue.

Identity and network are the new control points in cybersecurity. Learn why securing them is critical for visibility, detection, and resilient defense.

Attackers bypass MFA using non-interactive sign-ins. Learn how to detect and stop credential-based threats before they escalate.

Another supply-chain breach hit SaaS in April 2026 — Anodot tokens used to access Snowflake. Why the same ShinyHunters-branded pattern keeps repeating, and what makes the MO hard to detect.

We took a deep dive into millions of detections across MDR/MXDR and Respond UX deployments with the goal of getting a clearer picture of where the real threats are so that we can get a better understanding how security teams can work smarter, not harder.

EDR alone can’t stop modern breaches. Learn why CISOs are uniting network and identity signals to outpace attackers and build resilience.

Compromise of endpoint management systems changes the attack path entirely. Learn how control-plane attacks bypass early detection and why behavior across identity, network, and endpoints is the only reliable signal.

The axios supply chain compromise shows why risk begins after execution. Learn how to detect post-compromise behavior across CI/CD pipelines, identity systems, and network activity.

Can you confidently answer who is doing what on your network? Learn why visibility into user activity is key to security, risk, and compliance.

A compromised npm package is only the entry point. The axios incident shows how quickly attackers pivot from code execution to credential abuse, identity misuse, and cloud access.

Detect how Sliver C2 evades traditional beacon detection and how behavioral AI identifies command-and-control activity hidden in encrypted traffic.

Prompt control turns AI agents into command-and-control systems by manipulating context, memory, and inputs—enabling persistent, stealthy attacker control through normal agent behavior.

Learn how attackers move laterally across hybrid networks, abusing identity, credentials, and legitimate tools to reach critical systems before launching ransomware or stealing data.

Learn how attackers maintain hidden access inside hybrid networks and how SOC teams can detect persistence before it leads to data theft or ransomware.

Inside the Stryker incident: how Handala likely moved from identity access to disruption, and the identity, scripting, and data transfer signals SOC teams should watch.

Cyber resilience is lagging as defenders face alert overload, visibility gaps, and AI-speed attacks. Learn what SOC teams must change to stay resilient.

Detect Iranian APT activity across identity and network telemetry with six practical threat hunts. Run ready-to-use queries in the Vectra AI Platform to uncover credential abuse, C2 infrastructure, and early compromise signals.

AI-powered attacks are accelerating with agentic AI, but network behaviors remain visible. Learn why AI-powered NDR detects and stops these threats.

AI traffic now hides autonomous, agentic attacks. Learn how MCP-enabled swarms blur legitimate AI activity and command and control, reshaping detection and defense.

An AI-driven AWS attack reached admin access in minutes using valid credentials. Learn how identity abuse and automation compress cloud attack timelines.

UX teams must translate attacker behavior—not alerts—to help SOC teams act on AI-driven threats that move at machine speed.

Molt Road reveals how attacker marketplaces could evolve when autonomous agents trade services, coordinate attacks, and remove humans from the loop.

Moltbook exposes how autonomous AI agents turn trust and interaction into attack paths, enabling prompt injection, lateral movement, and covert command and control.

Gartner redefines NDR—and Vectra AI agrees. Learn why true resilience starts with understanding risk, not just detecting anomalies.

Clawdbot – now Moltbot – shows how autonomous AI agents become shadow superusers, enabling initial access, lateral movement, and ransomware when trust is abused.

AI moves fast—leaders must move smarter. Vectra AI’s CEO shares how to balance innovation with resilience in today’s machine-speed enterprise.

AI agents are accelerating the kill chain faster than defenders can respond. See what changes in 2026 and where SOCs fall behind.

Threat actors try to stay invisible, but OPSEC mistakes keep exposing them. A look at real-world failures and what they reveal about human error and AI-driven attacks.

AI is no longer assisting attackers, it is running the operation. A deep look at how threat actors moved from experimentation to autonomous, AI-driven cyberattacks.

CVE-2025-14847 ‘MongoBleed’ exposes critical memory leaks—learn how Vectra AI detects vulnerable MongoDB instances across your network.

Pro-Russia hacktivists are disrupting critical infrastructure by abusing legitimate access. Learn how these OT attacks work and why traditional tools miss them.

Vectra AI instantly connects network detections to endpoint processes—no pivots, no delay, just complete attack context in one view.

See how Vectra AI and CrowdStrike unite EDR and NDR to deliver full attack context, faster investigations, and clearer, more decisive threat response.

You are the Blackboard - AI Agent Assisted Bug Hunting

TCP resets don’t stop modern attackers. Learn why they fail—and how Vectra AI’s 360 Response delivers true, enforced containment across identity, device, and traffic.

How the Shai-Hulud worm hijacked trusted development tools and why defenders need behavioral visibility to catch the attack after the first package is installed.

Chinese state-backed Typhoon APTs infiltrate networks using trusted tools. Learn how the Vectra AI Platform detects their stealthy, persistent behavior.

Microsoft prevention isn’t enough. Learn how attackers exploit gaps across Azure, M365, and Entra ID—and how Vectra AI delivers the visibility to stop them.

Europol seized 1,000+ servers and €21M across three phases targeting initial access brokers. Criminal groups rebuilt within days — static defenses cannot keep up.

Discover insights from 400+ NDR power users on how network visibility closes security gaps, boosts SOC efficiency, and speeds threat response.

Learn how attackers gain initial access to your hybrid network, and how to stop intrusions before they turn into breaches.

Vectra AI tests how LLMs like GPT and Claude perform in real SOCs—revealing which AI agents truly think, act, and reason in cybersecurity.

Transform SOC efficiency with AI-driven threat hunting. Detect stealthy attacks earlier, cut MTTR, and operationalize Gartner’s 2025 recommendations.

Introducing the Vectra AI MCP Server for QUX—bringing AI-powered SOC automation and MCP innovation to on-premises security environments.