How to Protect Identities and Sessions from Infostealers
2026-05-21T07:23:40Z•2eea54b49a18962b8f5eacb432da3cf9e5454a53d02fa3e80c102a79ab895168
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What happened
CrowdStrike published a series of May 2026 posts covering defensive guidance, product updates and threat activity. Key items: (1) guidance on protecting identities and session tokens from infostealers (recommendations include MFA, token/session hardening, credential vaulting and endpoint/browser protections); (2) May 2026 Patch Tuesday noting 130 CVEs including 30 rated critical — organizations should prioritize triage and patching of critical/actively exploited flaws; (3) new detections and risk at the AI prompt layer in Kubernetes apps (Falcon AIDR) and broader AI-powered detection/automated
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- 2026-05-21T07:23:40Z
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