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Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid and Security News

🦑 The short entry presents the bobtail squid’s natural history—its bioluminescent symbiosis, nocturnal habits, and adaptive camouflage—in a crisp, approachable summary. As with other 'squid blogging' posts, the author invites readers to use the item as a forum for current security stories and news that the blog has not yet covered. The post also reiterates the blog's moderation policy to guide constructive discussion.

Bruce Schneier to Spend Academic Year at Munk School

📚 Bruce Schneier will spend the 2025–26 academic year at the University of Toronto’s Munk School as an adjunct. He will organize a reading group on AI security in the fall and teach his cybersecurity policy course in the spring. He intends to collaborate with Citizen Lab, the Law School, and the Schwartz Reisman Institute, and to participate in Toronto’s academic and cultural life. He describes the opportunity as exciting.

Logit-Gap Steering Reveals Limits of LLM Alignment

⚠️ Unit 42 researchers Tony Li and Hongliang Liu introduce Logit-Gap Steering, a new framework that exposes how alignment training produces a measurable refusal-affirmation logit gap rather than eliminating harmful outputs. Their paper demonstrates efficient short-path suffix jailbreaks that achieved high success rates on open-source models including Qwen, LLaMA, Gemma and the recently released gpt-oss-20b. The findings argue that internal alignment alone is insufficient and recommend a defense-in-depth approach with external safeguards and content filters.

Harmony SASE MCP Server Enables AI-Driven Visibility

🔗 The Harmony SASE MCP Server connects AI and IDE assistants to Harmony SASE, enabling direct, secure access to networking and security context. Built on the open Model Context Protocol (MCP), it exposes a curated set of endpoints so AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot can enrich workflows, accelerate investigations, and integrate SASE telemetry into familiar analyst and developer interfaces.

Fortinet at Black Hat USA 2025: Innovation & Community

🔒 Fortinet played a central role at Black Hat USA 2025, engaging thousands of attendees through demos, theater sessions, and partner presentations. At Booth #2446 and the Security Fabric Theater, Fortinet highlighted integrated capabilities across secure networking, SOC transformation, endpoint protection, and CNAPP, and showcased research on adversarial AI. The program extended into DEF CON 33, reinforcing the urgency of attack surface management and rapid threat detection.

The AI Fix Episode 64: AI, robots, and industry disputes

🎧 In episode 64 of The AI Fix, hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley survey a lively mix of AI breakthroughs, quirky robotics, and high-profile industry rows. Highlights include machine-learning work that uncovers unexpected results in dusty plasmas, a mudflat robocrab contest, a laundry-folding robot demo, and a contentious public spat involving Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The episode also touches on Geoffrey Hinton’s warnings about superintelligence, UK government advice on old emails, and recent research from Anthropic and Figure AI. Listeners are invited to support the show and follow on podcast platforms and Bluesky.

Value Exchange in Cybersecurity: Aligning Vendors & Partners

🤝 Strong vendor–partner alignment drives faster resolution, tailored deployments and sustained security outcomes for customers. Palo Alto Networks frames this mutual commitment as the value exchange and supports it with investments such as a refreshed Learning Center for Partners to build role-based expertise. When vendors and partners operate as a unified ecosystem, platformization reduces silos, lowers total cost of ownership and enables unified visibility and faster remediation. Weak collaboration, conversely, increases downtime, cost and risk.

GenAI-Enabled Phishing: Risks from AI Web Services

🚨 Unit 42 analyzes how rapid adoption of web-based generative AI is creating new phishing attack surfaces. Attackers are leveraging AI-powered website builders, writing assistants and chatbots to generate convincing phishing pages, clone brands and automate large-scale campaigns. Unit 42 observed real-world credential-stealing pages and misuse of trial accounts lacking guardrails. Customers are advised to use Advanced URL Filtering and Advanced DNS Security and report incidents to Unit 42 Incident Response.

Why Speed and Trust Matter in Modern MDR Services Now

⚡ Top-tier managed detection and response (MDR) gives organisations 24/7 expert monitoring to detect, contain and remediate threats before they escalate. With adversaries reducing breakout times to minutes, rapid detection and containment are essential to minimise dwell time, limit blast radius and reduce breach costs. Choose MDR with AI-driven detection, proactive threat hunting and a trusted SOC team for speedy, tailored protection.

EchoLink: Rise of Zero-Click AI Exploits in M365 Enterprise

⚠️ EchoLink is a newly identified zero-click vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that enables silent exfiltration of enterprise data without any user interaction. This class of attack bypasses traditional click- or download-based defenses and moves laterally at machine speed, making detection and containment difficult. Organizations relying solely on native tools or fragmented point solutions should urgently reassess their exposure and incident response readiness.

AI-powered financial scams flood social media ads now

⚠️ AI-driven deepfake ads on social media are increasingly used to impersonate banks, celebrities and news outlets to lure victims into investment fraud. Campaigns observed in 2024–2025, including the Nomani Trojan activity, use fake or hijacked accounts, localized messaging and deepfake testimonials to harvest credentials or steer targets into scam groups. Reported losses from investment fraud are substantial, so verify offers independently and avoid clicking unsolicited financial ads.

PS1Bot Malvertising and Black Hat Takeaways from Talos

🔍 Cisco Talos describes a widespread malvertising campaign delivering a modular malware framework called PS1Bot. The multi-stage operation uses in-memory PowerShell and C# components to steal browser credentials, target cryptocurrency wallets, capture screenshots and keylogs, and maintain persistent access through modular updates. Active and evolving through 2025, PS1Bot minimizes its footprint to evade detection. Talos urges caution when downloading files, keeping security software current, and using dedicated password managers instead of browser-stored credentials.

The Brain Behind Next-Generation Cyber Attacks and AI Risks

🧠 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University demonstrated that leading large language models (LLMs), by themselves, struggle to execute complex, multi-host cyber-attacks end-to-end, frequently wandering off-task or returning incorrect parameters. Their proposed solution, Incalmo, is a structured abstraction layer that constrains planning to a precise set of actions and validated parameters, substantially improving completion and coordination. The work highlights both enhanced offensive potential when LLMs are scaffolded and urgent defensive challenges for security teams.

PAN-OS 12.1 Orion: Quantum-Ready Multicloud Security

🔐 PAN-OS 12.1 Orion delivers a framework for quantum-ready and multicloud security, combining automated asset discovery, continuous risk assessment and centralized management via Strata Cloud Manager. It introduces an industry-first cipher translation to make legacy applications quantum-safe, plus quantum-optimized fifth-generation NGFW hardware for high-scale PQC inspection. The release also expands AI-driven detections and one-click deployment across AWS/Azure/GCP.

Smashing Security #430: Poisoned Calendar Invites & ChatGPT

📅 In episode 430 of Smashing Security, host Graham Cluley and guest Dave Bittner examine a range of security stories, led by a proof‑of‑concept attack that weaponises Google Calendar invites to trigger smart‑home actions. They also cover a disturbing incident where ChatGPT gave dangerous advice that led to hospitalization and discuss the new Superman trailer. The episode blends technical detail with accessible commentary and practical warnings for listeners.

Connect with Security Leaders at Microsoft Ignite 2025

🔒 Microsoft Security invites CISOs, SecOps leads, identity architects, and cloud security engineers to Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco (Nov 17–21) and online (Nov 18–21) to explore secure AI adoption and modern SecOps. Register with RSVP code ATXTJ77W to access the half-day Microsoft Security Forum (Nov 17), hands-on labs, live demos, and one-on-one meetings with experts. Attendees can join networking events including the Secure the Night party, pursue onsite Microsoft Security certifications, and engage in roundtables focused on threat intelligence, regulatory insights, and protecting data, identities, and infrastructure.

Dow's 125-Year Legacy: Innovating with AI for Security

🛡️ Dow is integrating AI into enterprise security through a strategic partnership with Microsoft, deploying Security Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot within its Cyber Security Operations Center. A cross-functional responsible AI team established principles and acceptable-use policies while assessing new AI risks. AI-driven tools are used to detect phishing and BEC, automate repetitive tasks, enrich tickets with contextual intelligence, and accelerate incident response. Apprentices leverage Copilot as a virtual mentor, shortening ramp time and enabling senior analysts to focus on proactive defense.

The AI Fix Episode 63: Robots, GPT-5 and Ethics Debate

🎧 In episode 63 of The AI Fix, hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley dissect a wide range of AI developments and controversies. Topics include Unitree Robotics referencing Black Mirror to market its A2 robot dog, concerns over shared ChatGPT conversations appearing in Google, and OpenAI releasing gpt-oss, its first open-weight model since GPT-2. The show also examines ethical issues around AI-created avatars of deceased individuals and separates the hype from the reality of GPT-5 claims.

Palo Alto Networks Opens Local Cloud Region in South Africa

🌍 Palo Alto Networks has launched a new cloud location in South Africa to bring its AI-powered security platforms closer to local organizations. The region will host core services including Cortex XSIAM, Prisma SASE, Advanced WildFire, Advanced DNS Security, Strata Cloud Manager and Strata Logging Service. Local hosting is designed to reduce latency, meet data residency and sovereignty requirements, and deliver real-time detection, automated response and centralized logging. The investment aims to support South Africa’s digital transformation while addressing rising ransomware and phishing threats across the region.

CrowdStrike Named Leader in GigaOm SSPM Radar 2025

🔒 CrowdStrike has been named the only Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM). The recognition highlights the CrowdStrike Falcon platform's unified, AI-native approach—combining Falcon Shield, identity protection and cloud security—to detect and remediate misconfigurations, identity threats, and unauthorized SaaS access. Falcon Shield's extensive integrations, automated policy responses via Falcon Fusion SOAR, and GenAI-focused controls underpin its market-leading posture and support continuous visibility across human and non-human identities.