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Cybersecurity teams are drowning in CVEs — and attackers are counting on it. In our recent webinar, Inside the 2025 DBIR – From Vulnerabilities to Exposure, experts from Verizon and Balbix broke down this year’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) and revealed a truth that’s reshaping cyber defense strategies: patching everything is neither possible nor …

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At Black Hat, Push Security co-founder and CTO Tyron Erasmus talks about why attackers are increasingly shifting their focus from endpoints to browsers — and what that means for defenders. Erasmus, who began his career in penetration testing and offensive security, said endpoint detection has matured to the point where it’s harder for attackers to..

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Zero Trust. It’s the security buzzword of the decade, right up there with “AI-powered” and “next-gen.” Vendors slap it on everything from VPN replacements to microsegmentation tools. Analysts write about...

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Creator, Author and Presenter: (Ian Amit)

Our deep appreciation to Security BSides - San Francisco and the Creators, Authors and Presenters for publishing their BSidesSF 2025 video content on YouTube. Originating from the conference’s events held at the lauded CityView / AMC Metreon - certainly a venue like no other; and via the organization's YouTube channel.

Additionally, the organization is welcoming volunteers for the BSidesSF Volunteer Force, as well as their Program Team & Operations roles. See their succinct BSidesSF 'Work With Us' page, in which, the appropriate information is to be had!

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In the 10 days after the deadly floods in Central Texas began, researcher's with BeforeAI's PreCrime Labs identified more than 70 malicious or suspicious domains that used the natural disaster to steal money and information from victims or those looking to help, the latest in the common trend of "disaster scams."

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Imagine an autonomous AI agent tasked with a simple job: generating a weekly sales report. It does this reliably every Monday. But one week, it doesn't just create the report. It also queries the customer database, exports every single record, and sends the file to an unknown external server.

Your firewalls saw nothing wrong. Your API gateway logged a series of seemingly valid calls. So, what happened?

The agent wasn't hacked. Its mind was changed.

As AI evolves from simple copilots to autonomous agents, they operate using a persistent "mental state" that directs their behavior. This operational context is the new, invisible attack surface that most security teams can't see.

Introducing the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

To describe this bundle of instructions and goals, a new concept is needed. We call it the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Think of MCP as an agent's digital mission briefing. It’s not a single command, but a complete set of operating instructions that defines the agent's entire purpose and limitations.

This mission briefing tells the agent everything it needs to know:

• Its Goal: What it's supposed to accomplish (e.g., "Generate the weekly sales report for the EU region").
• Its Tools: The specific APIs and functions it's allowed to use (e.g., "query the sales database" and "create PDF files").
• Its Role: The identity and permissions it operates with (e.g., a "sales analyst" with limited access).
• Its Memory: Important notes from past actions (e.g., "last report was sent on Monday").
• Its Constraints: The hard rules it must never break (e.g., "do not access sensitive customer information").

This briefing is the agent's brain. It follows these instructions precisely. But what happens if an attacker gets to be the one writing the instructions?

The Attack: A Poisoned Mission

Because the MCP is the driver for every action, hijacking it is the ultimate goal for an attacker. This is context poisoning.

Imagine an attacker intercepts that mission briefing before the agent reads it.

• They cross out the original goal and write a new one: "Export all customer records."
• They upgrade the agent’s role from "sales analyst" to "database administrator," giving it top-level permissions.
• They add dangerous new tools to its approved list, like "export data to the cloud."
• Finally, they erase all the original constraints and safety rules.

The agent isn't compromised in the traditional sense. It's simply following its new, malicious orders perfectly, using your own systems and APIs to carry out an attack. To your other security tools, everything looks like legitimate activity from a trusted source.

Why Your Security Tools Are Flying Blind

This is a nightmare for traditional security because the attack doesn't look like an attack.

• It's upstream of your APIs, happening in the application logic.
• It's logical, not a technical exploit. The API calls the agent makes are individually valid, so they don't trigger alerts.
• It's ephemeral, often existing only in memory, not in permanent logs that can be audited later.

You can't secure what you can't see. And if you only watch your API traffic without understanding the intent behind it, you're missing the real threat.

How to Secure the Unseen

Securing this new layer means securing the intent, not just the action. Context is the new code, and it requires a new security mindset focused on behavior.

1. Monitor for Behavioral Changes: You must know what's normal for an agent. When its API activity suddenly deviates, like accessing new databases or using tools it never has used before, it's a massive red flag.
2. Detect Impossible Drift: An agent with a "sales analyst" role should never suddenly start acting like a "database administrator." Detecting this role drift is key to spotting a poisoned context.
3. Connect Context to Action: A modern security platform must be able to connect an agent's API activity back to its purpose. This allows you to see why it's doing what it's doing and spot malicious intent.

At Salt Security, our API security platform is built for this new reality. By baselining all API activity, we develop a deep contextual understanding of how your systems are supposed to work. This allows us to instantly spot the anomalous behaviors that signal an MCP compromise—detecting goal escalation, tool misuse, and role drift before they lead to a breach.

The Bottom Line

MCP is how agents think. APIs are how they act.

To truly secure autonomous systems, you need visibility and control over both. Ignoring an agent's context is like giving a stranger the keys to your kingdom and hoping they follow the house rules.

To learn more about how Salt provides discovery, posture governance, and run-time threat protection for your entire API ecosystem, including AI and MCP, request a free Attack Surface Assessment or schedule a personalized demo with our team.

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Third-party risk management (TPRM) is no longer a periodic compliance exercise; it’s a strategic imperative. As organizations expand their digital ecosystems, managing third-party risk becomes more complex and critical. Siloed point solutions, manual processes, and fragmented oversight lead to blind spots that expose organizations to regulatory gaps and cybersecurity threats.

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IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report offers one of the clearest and most comprehensive views yet of how AI adoption is shaping the security landscape.  While breach numbers are relatively low – only 13% of organizations reported breaches involving AI models or applications – the report reveals a troubling pattern: APIs and integrations [...]

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Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience.

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Learn how Single Sign-On reduces login fatigue, improves compliance, and enhances productivity while keeping systems secure.

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Overview On August 13, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the August Security Update patch, which fixed 111 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Exchange Server. These include high-risk vulnerability types such as privilege escalation and remote code execution. Among the vulnerabilities fixed […]

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Why Should NHI Practices Be a Core Component of Your Cybersecurity Strategy? A question frequently on the minds of executives and professionals is: What is the role of Non-Human Identities (NHI) management in fortifying an organization’s security posture? This question is of prime importance as companies increasingly navigate digital, where NHIs – the machine identities […]

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In general, cryptographic agility refers to a system’s ability to replace or adapt cryptographic algorithms, parameters, or protocols—like key lengths or hashing methods—smoothly and without interruptions. This capability is especially critical when vulnerabilities emerge or when migrating to quantum-resistant algorithms.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly changing modern enterprises, but harnessing its full potential demands not only excellent models, but infrastructure expertise. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has emerged as a foundation for AI innovation, providing a platform that combines cloud-native flexibility, enterprise-grade security, and seamless access to advanced accelerators. In a recent webinar, I joined Tom Viilo (Head of Alliances) and Guilhem Tesseyre (CTO and Co-Founder) of Zencore for a deep dive into how technical leaders can design, optimize, and operate GKE environments for AI at scale.

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Creator, Author and Presenter: Ben Arent

Our deep appreciation to Security BSides - San Francisco and the Creators, Authors and Presenters for publishing their BSidesSF 2025 video content on YouTube. Originating from the conference’s events held at the lauded CityView / AMC Metreon - certainly a venue like no other; and via the organization's YouTube channel.

Additionally, the organization is welcoming volunteers for the BSidesSF Volunteer Force, as well as their Program Team & Operations roles. See their succinct BSidesSF 'Work With Us' page, in which, the appropriate information is to be had!

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In an era where billions of connected devices form the nervous system of critical infrastructure, embedded IoT systems have become prime targets for cybercriminals, particularly given their enormous collective attack surface. IoT Analytics projects that the number of connected IoT devices will reach 18.8 billion by the end of 2024, up from approximately 16.6 billion..

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In cybersecurity, speed is survival. When adversaries are moving at machine speed—launching AI-powered attacks, exploiting zero-days within hours of disclosure, and shifting tactics on the fly—you can’t afford to be making decisions based on a report that’s three months old. And yet, that’s exactly what much of the security industry has been doing for decades—relying..

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via the cosmic humor & dry-as-the-desert wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD

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