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APAC Security Leaders on AI: CISO Community Takeaways

🤖 At the Google Cloud CISO Community event in Singapore, APAC security leaders highlighted accelerating investment in cybersecurity AI to scale operations and enable business outcomes. They emphasized priorities: getting AI implementation and governance right, securing the AI supply chain, and translating cyber risk into board-level impact. Practical wins noted include reduced investigation time, agentic SOC automation, and strengthened threat intelligence sharing.

Kimsuky Uses AI to Forge South Korean Military ID Images

🛡️Researchers at Genians say North Korea’s Kimsuky group used ChatGPT to generate fake South Korean military ID images as part of a targeted spear-phishing campaign aimed at inducing victims to click a malicious link. The emails impersonated a defense-related institution and attached PNG samples later identified as deepfakes with a 98% probability. A bundled file, LhUdPC3G.bat, executed malware that enabled data theft and remote control. Primary targets included researchers, human-rights activists and journalists focused on North Korea.

Weekly Recap: Bootkit Malware, AI Attacks, Supply Chain

⚡ This weekly recap synthesizes critical cyber events and trends, highlighting a new bootkit, AI-enhanced attack tooling, and persistent supply-chain intrusions. HybridPetya samples demonstrate techniques to bypass UEFI Secure Boot, enabling bootkit persistence that can evade AV and survive OS reinstalls. The briefing also covers vendor emergency patches, novel Android RATs, fileless frameworks, and practical patch priorities for defenders.

Your SOC as the Parachute: Engineering for Resilience

🪂The SOC is framed as the parachute organisations rely on when breaches occur. Too many SOCs are under‑specified and reactive—drowned in alerts and tools that add complexity rather than resilience. The author calls for Swiss engineering: over‑specified, tested processes, rehearsed responses, and anticipatory defence grounded in threat modelling and behavioural context. Vendors and AI can assist, but organisations must own priorities, rehearse decision making, and build muscle memory.

AI-Powered Villager Pen Testing Tool Raises Abuse Concerns

⚠️ The AI-driven penetration testing framework Villager, attributed to China-linked developer Cyberspike, has attracted nearly 11,000 PyPI downloads since its July 2025 upload, prompting warnings about potential abuse. Marketed as a red‑teaming automation platform, it integrates Kali toolsets, LangChain, and AI models to convert natural‑language commands into technical actions and orchestrate tests. Researchers found built‑in plugins resembling remote access tools and known hacktools, and note Villager’s use of ephemeral Kali containers, randomized ports, and an AI task layer that together lower the bar for misuse and complicate detection and attribution.

Five Trends Reshaping IT Security Strategies in 2025

🔒 Cybersecurity leaders report the mission to defend organizations is unchanged, but threats, technology and operating pressures are evolving rapidly. Five trends — shrinking or stagnating budgets, AI-enabled attacks, the rise of agentic AI, accelerating business speed, and heightened vendor M&A — are forcing changes in strategy. CISOs are simplifying tech stacks, increasing automation and outsourcing, and deploying AI for detection and response while wrestling with new authentication/authorization gaps. Vendor viability and consolidation now factor into resilience planning.

Ten Career Pitfalls That Can Derail Today's CISOs Now

🔒 CISOs face many behavioral and strategic traps that can stall or end careers if not addressed. Leaders, coaches and consultants identify ten common mistakes — from failing to align security with business priorities and treating security as a pure technology function, to reflexively saying no, enforcing rigid rules, misunderstanding AI, lacking transparency, not networking, and mishandling incidents. The article emphasizes becoming an enabler, tying controls to ROI, communicating clearly, and rehearsing response plans to build resilience.

Wesco Reimagines Risk Management with Data Consolidation

🔍 Wesco consolidated thousands of security alerts into a unified risk framework to separate urgent threats from noise. By integrating more than a dozen platforms — including GitHub, Azure DevOps, Veracode, JFrog, Kubernetes, Microsoft Defender, and CrowdStrike — the company applied ASPM, threat modeling, a security champions program, and AI-driven automation to prioritize remediation. The initiative reduced duplication, saved developer time, and improved risk visibility across the organization.

Laura Deaner on AI, Quantum Risks and Cyber Leadership

🔒 Laura Deaner, newly appointed CISO at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), explains how AI and machine learning are transforming threat detection and incident response. She cautions that quantum computing could break current encryption by 2030, urging immediate focus on post-quantum cryptography and comprehensive crypto inventories. Deaner also stresses that modern CISOs must combine curiosity with disciplined asset hygiene to lead security transformations effectively.

Domain-Based Attacks Will Continue to Wreak Havoc Globally

🔒 Domain-based attacks that exploit DNS and registered domains are rising in frequency and sophistication, driven heavily by AI. Attackers increasingly blend website spoofing, email domain impersonation, subdomain hijacking, DNS tunnelling and automated domain-generation (DGAs) to scale campaigns and evade detection. Many proven protections—Registry Lock, DNSSEC, DNS redundancy and active domain monitoring—remain underused, leaving organizations exposed. Security teams should adopt preemptive scanning, layered DNS controls, strict asset ownership and employee training to limit impact.

Runtime Visibility Reshapes Cloud-Native Security in 2025

🛡️ The shift to containers, Kubernetes, and serverless has made runtime visibility the new center of gravity for cloud-native security. CNAPPs that consolidate detection, posture, and response are essential, but observing active workloads distinguishes theoretical risk from live exposure. AI-driven correlation and automated triage reduce false positives and accelerate remediation. Vendors such as Sysdig stress mapping findings back to ownership and source code to drive accountable fixes.

Cursor Code Editor Flaw Enables Silent Code Execution

⚠ Cursor, an AI-powered fork of Visual Studio Code, ships with Workspace Trust disabled by default, enabling VS Code-style tasks configured with runOptions.runOn: 'folderOpen' to auto-execute when a folder is opened. Oasis Security showed a malicious .vscode/tasks.json can convert a casual repository browse into silent arbitrary code execution with the user's privileges. Users should enable Workspace Trust, audit untrusted projects, or open suspicious repos in other editors to mitigate risk.

Five AI Use Cases CISOs Should Prioritize in 2025 and Beyond

🔒 Security leaders are balancing safe AI adoption with operational gains and focusing on five practical use cases where AI can improve security outcomes. Organizations are connecting LLMs to internal telemetry via standards like MCP, using agents and models such as Claude, Gemini and GPT-4o to automate threat hunting, translate technical metrics for executives, assess vendor and internal risk, and streamline Tier‑1 SOC work. Early deployments report time savings, clearer executive reporting and reduced analyst fatigue, but require robust guardrails, validation and feedback loops to ensure accuracy and trust.

Justifying Security Investments: A Boardroom Guide

💡 CISOs must present security spending as business enablers that reduce risk, protect revenue, and support strategic priorities rather than as purely technical upgrades. Begin by defining the business challenge, then tie the proposed solution—such as Zero Trust or platform consolidation—to measurable outcomes like reduced incident impact, faster recovery, and lower TCO. Use cost models, breach scenarios, per-user economics, and timelines to quantify benefits and speak the board’s language of risk, return, and shareholder value.

Google Pixel 10 Adds C2PA Support for Media Provenance

📸 Google has added support for the C2PA Content Credentials standard to the Pixel Camera and Google Photos apps on the new Pixel 10, enabling tamper-evident provenance metadata for images, video, and audio. The Pixel Camera app achieved Assurance Level 2 in the C2PA Conformance Program, the highest mobile rating currently defined. Google says a combination of the Tensor G5, Titan M2 and Android hardware-backed features provides on-device signing keys, anonymous attestation, unique per-image certificates, and an offline time-stamping authority so provenance is verifiable, privacy-preserving, and usable even when the device is offline.

AI-Powered Browsers: Security and Privacy Risks in 2026

🔒 An AI-integrated browser embeds large multimodal models into standard web browsers, allowing agents to view pages and perform actions—opening links, filling forms, downloading files—directly on a user’s device. This enables faster, context-aware automation and access to subscription or blocked content, but raises substantial privacy and security risks, including data exfiltration, prompt-injection and malware delivery. Users should demand features like per-site AI controls, choice of local models, explicit confirmation for sensitive actions, and OS-level file restrictions, though no browser currently implements all these protections.

Prompt Injection via Macros Emerges as New AI Threat

🛡️ Enterprises now face attackers embedding malicious prompts in document macros and hidden metadata to manipulate generative AI systems that parse files. Researchers and vendors have identified exploits — including EchoLeak and CurXecute — and a June 2025 Skynet proof-of-concept that target AI-powered parsers and malware scanners. Experts urge layered defenses such as deep file inspection, content disarm and reconstruction (CDR), sandboxing, input sanitization, and strict model guardrails to prevent AI-driven misclassification or data exposure.

Smashing Security #434: Whopper Hackers and AI Failures

🍔 In episode 434 of the award‑winning Smashing Security podcast, Graham Cluley and guest Lianne Potter examine two striking security stories: an ethical hack of Burger King that revealed drive‑thru audio recordings, hard‑coded passwords and an authentication bypass, and an alleged insider theft at xAI where a former engineer, after receiving $7 million, is accused of taking trade secrets. The hosts blend sharp analysis with irreverent commentary on operational security and human risk.

Pixel 10 Adds C2PA Content Credentials for Photos Now

📸 Google is integrating C2PA Content Credentials into the Pixel 10 camera and Google Photos to help users distinguish authentic, unaltered images from AI-generated or edited media. Every JPEG captured on Pixel 10 will automatically include signed provenance metadata, and Google Photos will attach updated credentials when images are edited so a verifiable edit history is preserved. The system works offline and relies on on-device cryptography (Titan M2, Android StrongBox, Android Key Attestation), one-time keys, and trusted timestamps to provide tamper-resistant provenance while protecting user privacy.

Pixel 10 Adds C2PA Content Credentials and Trusted Imaging

📷 Google announced Pixel 10 phones will embed C2PA Content Credentials in every photo captured by the native Pixel Camera and display verification in Google Photos. The Pixel Camera app achieved Assurance Level 2 by combining Tensor G5, the certified Titan M2 security chip, and Android hardware-backed attestation. A privacy-first model uses anonymous enrollment, a strict no-logging policy, and a one-time certificate-per-image strategy to prevent linking. Pixel 10 also supports an on-device trusted timestamping mechanism so credentials remain verifiable offline.