Annual vendor audits produce a snapshot; vendor risk is a movie. See why the 364 days between formal assessments is where 48% of third-party breaches actually happen, and how continuous vendor monitoring closes that gap for DORA and NIS2 compliance.
Category: Blog
AI Gateway Exploitation: How Attackers Are Targeting LiteLLM, RAGFlow, and Kestra to Steal Your Model Provider Keys
Three actively exploited AI orchestration platforms — LiteLLM, RAGFlow, and Kestra — are giving attackers a single entry point to every model provider credential an organization holds. See the CVE chains, IOCs, and detection rules from Brandefense’s INT-2608-e7a5 campaign analysis.
Phishing-as-a-Service 2.0: The Kits That Bypass MFA Without a Fake Login Page
Phishing-as-a-service kits like EvilTokens and Kali365 no longer need a fake login page. See how AiTM proxies and OAuth device code abuse bypass MFA, and what actually stops them.
CRA Reporting Obligations: The 24-Hour Clock Starts When You Find Out
From 11 September 2026, CRA reporting obligations require manufacturers to file an early warning within 24 hours of becoming aware that a product is being actively exploited. The regulation measures awareness, not exploitation — and for most organisations, awareness is the part that’s not ready.
CVE Volume Is Exploding, But Is Your Risk? Making Sense of 2026’s Vulnpocalypse
CVE volume in 2026 is set to double the 2023 figure, yet only about two percent of published vulnerabilities are ever confirmed exploited. See which CVEs actually mattered this year, and the four filters that replace volume-based triage.
No Patch Exists Yet: Who Owns the Pre-Disclosure Window?
Our H1 2026 analysis found that 32.1% of exploited vulnerabilities were attacked before a fix even existed. Patch velocity cannot close that window. See who should own it, and which controls actually work when there is no patch to install.
API Sprawl: The Attack Surface Nobody Put On the Inventory
API sprawl is not a documentation problem, it is a structural one. Shadow APIs, zombie APIs and inherited endpoints grow every week through normal engineering work, and only 15 percent of organisations trust their inventory. See why continuous, outside-in discovery is the only fix that keeps pace.
Device-Code Phishing Jumped 1,380%: The MFA Bypass Method Nobody’s Training Employees On
Device code phishing defeats even hardware security keys and passkeys by hijacking OAuth’s device authorization flow instead of stealing a password. It passes every awareness-training check because nothing about the login page is fake.
The Board Meeting That Never Happened: Deepfake Video Calls and the New Wire Fraud
A finance employee joined a video call with his CFO and colleagues — every face was synthetic. The deepfake video call attack that moved $25.6 million in 15 transfers, and the five-control verification protocol that stops it even when the impersonation is perfect.
One Vendor, Eleven Crises: Why Your TPRM Program Has a People Data Blind Spot
A single HR assessment vendor breach exposed psychometric profiles and interview recordings for executives across eleven organizations. See why people data vendors sit outside standard TPRM scope, and what closing that blind spot requires.