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Databricks Launches AI-Driven Cybersecurity Lakehouse

🔒 Databricks has introduced Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity, an AI-driven platform that unifies fragmented security telemetry on its Lakehouse architecture to provide real-time, context-rich threat detection. The offering includes Agent Bricks to build governed AI agents, conversational dashboards, and natural-language queries for nontechnical stakeholders. Early adopters such as Arctic Wolf, Palo Alto Networks, and SAP report sharper detection, lower costs, and faster operations, while Databricks expands integrations across a broad partner ecosystem to challenge established SIEM and analytics vendors.

Chinese State-Linked RedNovember Targets Global Org

🛰️ Recorded Future has attributed a widespread cyber-espionage cluster to a Chinese state-sponsored actor it has named RedNovember, which overlaps with Microsoft's Storm-2077. From June 2024 to July 2025 the group targeted internet-facing perimeter appliances and used a mix of open-source and commercial tooling — notably Pantegana, Spark RAT and Cobalt Strike — to gain persistent access across government and private-sector networks worldwide. Attacks exploited known CVEs in VPNs, firewalls and other security appliances and leveraged a Go-based loader derived from LESLIELOADER, while administration infrastructure relied on VPN services such as ExpressVPN and Warp.

Major EDR Vendors Withdraw from MITRE ATT&CK Tests

🔍Three major cybersecurity vendors — Microsoft, SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks — have declined to participate in the 2025 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations: Enterprise, citing a need to prioritize product development and innovation. Their exits, after strong 2024 performances, have sparked debate over the tests' scope and whether they encourage PR-driven preparation. MITRE says it will revive a vendor forum for 2026 to improve engagement.

Top Dark Web Monitoring Tools for Threat Detection

🔎 The article explains why Dark Web monitoring is essential for CISOs and security teams, focusing on the discovery of leaked credentials, sensitive corporate data, and brand-abuse used in fraud and phishing. It profiles ten leading solutions and contrasts commercial Digital Risk Protection services with open-source intelligence platforms. The piece emphasizes integration with XDR/MDR, API access, takedown capabilities, and VIP and supply‑chain monitoring to prioritize responses and reduce business risk.

Unit 42 Earns NCSC Enhanced Level Incident Response

🔒 Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 has been added to the UK's NCSC Cyber Incident Response scheme at the Enhanced Level, demonstrating certified capability to manage the most complex and impactful cyber incidents. The assurance verifies structured, government-benchmarked processes, strong investigative expertise, and a customer-focused retainer model tailored to regulatory and operational needs. This recognition underscores Unit 42's role in helping organisations reduce dwell time, contain threats faster, and strengthen long-term resilience.

Palo Alto Acknowledges Browser-Malware Risks, Validates LMR

🔍 SquareX’s Last Mile Reassembly (LMR) research, disclosed at DEF CON 32, shows how attackers split and reassemble malware inside the browser to evade Secure Web Gateways (SWGs). Palo Alto Networks has become the first major SASE vendor to publicly acknowledge this class of browser-assembled evasive attacks and announced enhancements to Prisma Browser. SquareX says LMR and related Data Splicing techniques exploit channels like WebRTC and gRPC, bypassing traditional SWG and DLP controls and underscoring the need for browser-native security.

Inside Black Hat's NOC: Zero-Hour Security Operations

🛡️ At Black Hat, Palo Alto Networks' NOC operates a zero-hour defense model that protects critical infrastructure while enabling controlled exploit training. Engineers from Cortex and Unit 42 collaborate with partners like Corelight to develop rapid detections, deploy contextual rules on PA-5430 firewalls, and automate responses via Cortex XSIAM. The environment balances visibility, segmentation and automated enforcement to stop external threats without disrupting sanctioned exercises.

Partner-built AI Security Innovations on Google Cloud

🔒 Google Cloud and its partners announced a range of partner-built AI security solutions now available in the Google Cloud Marketplace. These integrations embed Gemini and Vertex AI into partner products — including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and others — to protect models, data, applications, and agents. The collaborations emphasize automated detection, incident response, DLP, identity protection, and agent monitoring to reduce mean time to detect and respond, helping customers adopt AI securely.

CRM Supply-Chain Breach via Salesloft Drift Impacts Vendors

🔒 Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and Cloudflare disclosed a supply-chain breach traced to the Salesloft Drift integration with Salesforce. The compromise exposed business contact information, account/contact/case/opportunity records and, in some instances, OAuth tokens and plaintext support-case content; attachments and files were reportedly not affected. Palo Alto's Unit 42 observed active searches of exfiltrated data and deletion of queries consistent with anti-forensics. Vendors are advising immediate token revocation, credential rotation and comprehensive review of Salesforce logs and SOQL query history.

Prisma SASE 4.0: AI-Ready Security for Distributed Work

🔒 Prisma SASE 4.0 is positioned as a unified, cloud-delivered security platform engineered for the AI era. It combines AI-powered threat protection, frictionless data security for structured and unstructured content, and unified intelligent operations to automate deployment and troubleshooting. New capabilities include browser-based postload inspection, an Advanced DNS Resolver with Precision AI, SaaS security posture monitoring for AI agents, and Autonomous Digital Experience Management to preserve performance and resilience.

Cloudflare, Palo Alto Hit by Salesloft Drift Breach

🔒 Cloudflare and Palo Alto Networks disclosed that threat actors accessed their Salesforce tenants via the third‑party Salesloft Drift app after compromising OAuth tokens. Cloudflare reported reconnaissance on 9 August 2025 and said data was exfiltrated from Salesforce case objects between 12–17 August 2025. The exposed fields principally contained support case text and business contact information; Cloudflare identified 104 API tokens and has rotated them, urging customers to rotate any credentials shared in cases. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group links the activity to UNC6395 and warns harvested data may be used for targeted follow‑on attacks.

Supply-chain Breach Impacts Palo Alto, Zscaler, Cloudflare

🔒 Three major vendors—Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and Cloudflare disclosed a supply‑chain breach tied to the Salesloft Drift Salesforce integration that exposed OAuth tokens and customer CRM data. The incident reportedly involved mass exfiltration from Account, Contact, Case and Opportunity records and included business contact data and some plaintext case notes. Vendors recommend rotating credentials, revoking unused OAuth tokens, auditing Salesforce Event Monitoring and reviewing SOQL query logs and connected-app activity for signs of abuse.

Meet the Next Generation of Unit 42 Threat Intelligence

🔍 Unit 42 highlights two threat intelligence interns, Sakthi Vinayak and Gabrielle Calderon, who completed a 12-week program contributing to practical research and automation projects. Sakthi concentrated on mechanizing data ingestion, implementing a fidelity scoring framework, and building dashboards to surface trends and gaps in the knowledge repository. Gabrielle focused on malware ticket analysis and developing an automation tool to identify malware families and extract indicators of compromise. Both interns credited Unit 42’s collaborative mentorship and cross-team exposure for accelerating their technical growth and real-world impact.

Palo Alto Networks Salesforce Breach Exposes Support Data

🔒 Palo Alto Networks confirmed a Salesforce CRM breach after attackers used compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift incident to access its instance. The intrusion was limited to Salesforce and exposed business contacts, account records and portions of support cases; technical attachments were not accessed. The company quickly disabled the app, revoked tokens and said Unit 42 found no impact to products or services.

Palo Alto Networks Salesforce Breach Exposes Customer Data

🔒 Palo Alto Networks confirmed a Salesforce data breach after attackers abused OAuth tokens stolen in the Salesloft Drift supply-chain incident to access its CRM. The intruders exfiltrated business contact, account records and support Case data, which in some instances contained sensitive IT details and passwords. Palo Alto says products and services were not affected, tokens were revoked, and credentials rotated.

Palo Alto Networks Response to Salesloft/Drift Breach

🔐 Palo Alto Networks confirmed last week that a breach of Salesloft’s Drift third‑party application allowed unauthorized access to customer Salesforce data, affecting hundreds of organizations including Palo Alto Networks. We immediately disconnected the vendor integration from our Salesforce environment and directed Unit 42 to lead a comprehensive investigation. The investigation found the incident was isolated to our CRM platform; no Palo Alto Networks products or services were impacted, and exposed data primarily included business contact information, internal sales account records and basic case data. We are proactively contacting a limited set of customers who may have had more sensitive data exposed and have made support available through our customer support channels.

Salt Typhoon APT Expands to Netherlands, Targets Routers

🔒 Salt Typhoon, a persistent Chinese-aligned threat actor, has expanded operations into the Netherlands by compromising routers at smaller ISPs and hosting providers. Intelligence agencies report the group exploits known flaws in Ivanti, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco devices to obtain long-term access and pivot through trusted provider links. Authorities urge organizations to audit configurations, disable management access, enforce public-key administrative authentication, remove default credentials, and keep vendor-recommended OS versions up to date to reduce exposure.

Joint Advisory Reveals Salt Typhoon APT Techniques Worldwide

🔍 Salt Typhoon, a Chinese state-aligned APT also tracked as Operator Panda/RedMike, is the subject of a joint advisory from intelligence and cybersecurity agencies across 13 countries. The report links the group to Chinese entities tied to the PLA and MSS and documents repeated exploitation of n-day flaws in network edge devices from vendors such as Ivanti, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco. It details persistence via ACL modifications, tunneled proxies, credential capture via RADIUS/TACACS+, and exfiltration over peering and BGP, and urges telecoms to hunt for intrusions, patch quickly and harden management interfaces.

Salt Typhoon Exploits Router Flaws to Breach 600 Orgs

🔒Salt Typhoon, a China-linked APT, exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco, Ivanti, and Palo Alto Networks edge devices to compromise and persistently control routers worldwide. The actors modified device configurations, created GRE tunnels, and used on-box Linux containers to stage tools and exfiltrate data. Agencies from 13 countries linked the campaign to three Chinese firms and warned of espionage impacting telecoms, government, transport, lodging, and military sectors.

Chinese Tech Firms Linked to Salt Typhoon Espionage

🔍 A joint advisory from the UK, US and allied partners attributes widespread cyber-espionage operations to the Chinese APT group Salt Typhoon and alleges assistance from commercial vendors that supplied "cyber-related products and services." The report names Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, Beijing Huanyu Tianqiong Information Technology and Sichuan Zhixin Ruijie Network Technology. It warns attackers exploited known vulnerabilities in edge devices to access routers and trusted provider connections, and urges immediate patching, proactive hunting using supplied IoCs, and regular review of device logs.