AI brands as bait: How threat actors are using the AI hype in social engineering
2026-06-09T02:52:17Z•baa76bf447ff8f213a5788ea2cb81851a0a6dd3d03e423dadd65e9460d24bbde
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What happened
Microsoft Security Blog collection (May–Jun 2026) highlights escalating threats across AI, developer supply chains, and infrastructure: attackers are using AI branding as social‑engineering lures; prompt injection in the Claude Code GitHub Action allowed exfiltration of workflow secrets (research, disclosure, and Anthropic mitigations discussed); an updated taxonomy outlines new failure modes for agentic AI after a year of red‑teaming; a large npm supply‑chain campaign (“Miasma”) compromised 90+ @redhat‑cloud‑services versions to steal developer/CI/CD/cloud credentials and propagate by repack‑
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