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Three suspected Russian threat clusters are actively conducting targeted phishing campaigns using OAuth abuse, device code manipulation, and AitM attacks via compromised Wi-Fi gateways to hijack credentials and deploy infostealers.

This content introduces AI Detection and Response (AIDR) as a new cybersecurity category to address emerging threats from autonomous AI agents, including supply chain attacks and unintended data sharing, highlighting their ability to execute with inherited privileges across endpoints, SaaS, and cloud environments.

CrowdStrike highlights a critical identity management gap in AI agent deployments where current OAuth 2.1 tokens and JWT (RFC 9068) lack standardized mechanisms to represent an AI agent's instance identity, the user on whose behalf it acts, and their relationship, hindering fine-grained access controls, audit trails, and detection of out-of-scope actions.

Tracking brief for the Shai-Hulud campaign; individual sightings are folded in as reported.

CrowdStrike's AI security research team has identified 18 new prompt injection techniques, expanding its taxonomy to over 200 methods, which enable adversaries to manipulate AI systems and agents through indirect means like hidden context, delayed triggers, and special token injection, leading to unauthorized actions such as data exfiltration or arbitrary command execution.