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Attack Surface Management: 12 Tools to Harden Perimeter

🔒 Regular network scans are no longer sufficient to secure modern environments. This article reviews a dozen Attack Surface Management solutions—covering both CAASM and EASM approaches—that automate asset discovery, continuous monitoring, and risk prioritization. Vendors highlighted include Axonius, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Palo Alto Xpanse, and others that integrate with existing SOC tooling and often leverage agentic AI to assist detection and remediation. It concludes with seven practical questions to evaluate ASM needs, automation, remediation paths, and pricing models.

Tenable Reveals New Prompt-Injection Risks in ChatGPT

🔐 Researchers at Tenable disclosed seven techniques that can cause ChatGPT to leak private chat history by abusing built-in features such as web search, conversation memory and Markdown rendering. The attacks are primarily indirect prompt injections that exploit a secondary summarization model (SearchGPT), Bing tracking redirects, and a code-block rendering bug. Tenable reported the issues to OpenAI, and while some fixes were implemented several techniques still appear to work.

Researchers Trick ChatGPT into Self Prompt Injection

🔒 Researchers at Tenable identified seven techniques that can coerce ChatGPT into disclosing private chat history by abusing built-in features like web browsing and long-term Memories. They show how OpenAI’s browsing pipeline routes pages through a weaker intermediary model, SearchGPT, which can be prompt-injected and then used to seed malicious instructions back into ChatGPT. Proof-of-concepts include exfiltration via Bing-tracked URLs, Markdown image loading, and a rendering quirk, and Tenable says some issues remain despite reported fixes.

Data Security Posture Management: Top DSPM Tools Reviewed

🛡️ Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) tools help organizations discover, classify and manage sensitive data across dynamic cloud environments. They focus on locating "shadow data" in known and unknown repositories and typically collect metadata via agentless or API-based scans to avoid moving raw data. DSPM dashboards catalog findings, map lineage and assess compliance, while remediation often integrates with SOAR, SIEM or CNAPP solutions. Many vendors now combine discovery with some automated "fix it" capabilities to streamline response.

Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch: Attack Surface Tools

🔎 Cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) and external ASM (EASM) solutions help organizations discover and continuously monitor internet-facing assets to reduce exposure and harden security. The article surveys a dozen commercial offerings — including Axonius, CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure, Microsoft Defender EASM, and Palo Alto Cortex Xpanse — highlighting discovery methods, integrations, AI features, and sample pricing. It stresses continuous monitoring, asset context and prioritization, and recommends vetting vendor automation, remediation workflows, and pricing transparency.

Gemini Trifecta: Prompt Injection Exposes New Attack Surface

🔒 Researchers at Tenable disclosed three distinct vulnerabilities in Gemini's Cloud Assist, Search personalization, and Browsing Tool. The flaws let attackers inject prompts via logs (for example by manipulating the HTTP User-Agent), poison search context through scripted history entries, and exfiltrate data by causing the Browser Tool to send sensitive content to an attacker-controlled server. Google has patched the issues, but Tenable and others warn this highlights the risks of granting agents too much autonomy without runtime guardrails.

Salesloft: GitHub Compromise Led to Drift OAuth Theft

🔒 Salesloft confirmed that a threat actor gained access to its GitHub account between March and June 2025, using that access to download repositories, add a guest user and create workflows. The attacker then moved into the Drift app environment, obtained OAuth tokens and used Drift integrations to access customers’ Salesforce instances and exfiltrate secrets. Affected customers include security vendors such as Tenable, Qualys, Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare and Zscaler. Google Mandiant performed containment, rotated credentials and validated segmentation; the incident is now in forensic review.

Qualys, Tenable Confirm Access in Salesloft Drift Attack

🔐 Tenable and Qualys reported limited unauthorized access to parts of their Salesforce records after attackers stole OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift integration. The incidents exposed support-case subject lines, initial descriptions and basic business contact details, but neither vendor's products or core services were affected. Both firms disabled the Salesloft Drift app, revoked or rotated credentials, and said they are working with Salesforce and investigators to contain the impact.

Automation Is Reshaping Penetration Test Delivery Workflows

🔁 Pentesting remains a critical control for uncovering real-world vulnerabilities, but static PDF reports and spreadsheet handoffs create delays and inefficiencies. The piece advocates automating pentest delivery so findings are consolidated and routed in real time through rules-based workflows, enabling teams to act immediately and reduce churn. Platforms like PlexTrac are highlighted for centralizing manual and scanner outputs, automating ticketing into tools such as Jira and ServiceNow, and triggering retests to close the loop. The result is faster remediation, standardized processes, and measurable reductions in MTTR for both service providers and enterprises.