All news with #secrets management tag

Regaining Control of AI Agents and Non-Human Identities

🔐 Enterprises are struggling to secure thousands of non-human identities—service accounts, API tokens, and increasingly autonomous AI agents—that proliferate across cloud and CI/CD environments without clear ownership. These NHIs often use long-lived credentials, lack contextual signals for adaptive controls, and become over-permissioned or orphaned, creating major lateral-movement and compliance risks. The article recommends an identity security fabric—including discovery, risk-based privilege management, automated lifecycle policies, and integrations such as Okta with AWS—to regain visibility and enforce least-privilege at scale.

Shai-Hulud Worm: Large npm Supply Chain Compromise

🪱 Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is investigating an active supply chain attack in the npm ecosystem driven by a novel self-replicating worm tracked as "Shai-Hulud." The malware has compromised more than 180 packages, including high-impact libraries such as @ctrl/tinycolor, and automates credential theft, repository creation, and propagation across maintainers' packages. Unit 42 assesses with moderate confidence that an LLM assisted in authoring the malicious bash payload. Customers are protected through Cortex Cloud, Prisma Cloud, Cortex XDR and Advanced WildFire, and Unit 42 recommends immediate credential rotation, dependency audits, and enforcement of MFA.

Identifying Companies Affected by Shai-Hulud NPM Attack

🛡️ This report analyzes the Sept 14–16 campaign that compromised over 180 NPM packages and propagated the self‑replicating Shai‑Hulud worm, which pushed malicious changes and exfiltrated secrets by publishing data.json files to public GitHub repositories. By parsing the GitHub events archive, researchers identified 207 affected repositories tied to 37 users and attributed those users to 17 employers. Several infected users were NPM maintainers who acted as “super spreaders.” Although exposed files were removed, archived events enable retrospective reconstruction and demand urgent auditing and remediation.

Securing the Agentic Era: Astrix's Agent Control Plane

🔒 Astrix introduces the industry's first Agent Control Plane (ACP) to enable secure-by-design deployment of autonomous AI agents across the enterprise. ACP issues short-lived, precisely scoped credentials and enforces just-in-time, least-privilege access while centralizing inventory and activity trails. The platform streamlines policy-driven approvals for developers, speeds audits for security teams, and reduces compliance and operational risk by discovering non-human identities (NHIs) and remediating excessive privileges in real time.

Token Management Risks in the Third-Party Supply Chain

🔐 This Unit 42 report describes how compromised OAuth tokens in third‑party integrations create severe supply‑chain exposure, using recent incidents as examples. It highlights three recurring weaknesses: dormant integrations, insecure token storage and long‑lived credentials, and explains how attackers exploit these to exfiltrate data and pivot. The authors recommend token posture management, encrypted secret storage and centralized runtime monitoring to detect and revoke abused tokens quickly.

Cursor autorun flaw lets repos execute arbitrary code

🔓 Oasis Security disclosed a flaw in Cursor that allows malicious repositories to execute code when a developer opens a folder. The vulnerability stems from Workspace Trust being disabled by default, permitting crafted .vscode/tasks.json entries set to run on folder open to autorun without prompting. Successful exploitation can expose API keys, cloud credentials and local secrets, risking organization-wide compromise.

Cloudflare AI Gateway updates: unified billing, routing

🤖 Cloudflare’s AI Gateway refresh centralizes AI traffic management, offering unified billing, secure key storage, dynamic routing, and built-in security through a single endpoint. The update integrates Cloudflare Secrets Store for AES-encrypted BYO keys, provides an automatic normalization layer for requests/responses across providers, and introduces dashboard-driven Dynamic Routes for traffic splits, chaining, and limits. Native Firewall DLP scanning and configurable profiles add data protection controls, while partner access to 350+ models across six providers and a credits-based billing beta simplify procurement and cost management.

ISP Exposes Administrative Credentials via S3 Misconfig

🔓On October 11, 2018 UpGuard discovered that an Amazon S3 bucket named "pinapp2" exposed 73 GB of data belonging to Pocket iNet. The downloadable "tech" folder contained plaintext administrative passwords, AWS secret keys, network configuration files, inventory lists, and photographs of hardware and towers. Pocket iNet was notified the same day and secured the exposure on October 19, 2018. The incident highlights how misconfigured S3 ACLs and poor credential hygiene can place critical infrastructure at risk.

Securing Cloud Identity Infrastructure Through Collaboration

🔒 CISA's Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) is coordinating with major cloud providers and federal partners to strengthen core cloud identity and authentication systems against sophisticated, nation-state affiliated threats. Recent incidents have exposed risks from token forgery, compromised signing keys, stolen credentials, and gaps in secrets management, logging, and governance. On June 25, a technical exchange convened experts from industry and government to share best practices and explore mitigations such as stateful token validation, token binding, improved secrets rotation and storage, hardware security modules, and enhanced logging to better detect and respond to malicious activity.

Accenture Cloud Buckets Exposed Sensitive Credentials

🔒 UpGuard discovered four publicly accessible AWS S3 buckets belonging to Accenture, exposing API keys, certificates, decryption keys, plaintext passwords, and customer data associated with the Accenture Cloud Platform. The discovery was made in mid-September 2017 and reported to Accenture, which secured the buckets the following day. Exposed artifacts included master KMS keys, VPN credentials, logs, and private signing keys that could enable impersonation and secondary attacks against clients.