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Weaponizing Trust: How Nation-States and Criminals Are Hiding Inside the Tools You Already Use | Episode 14
Two reports, one uncomfortable theme: attackers aren't doing new things — they're doing old things inside the tools we already trust.
Rachel James and Dr. Bryan Nakayama read the fine print with host Dave Hatt.
Nation-state actors hiding in plain sight — Trend Micro's six-month look at China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran-aligned groups finds command-and-control living inside Microsoft 365, dev tunnels, and blockchains. One standout: a jailbroken autonomous agent ran a full intrusion loop on its own — scanning, exploitation, credential harvesting, password spraying. Defenders can't just block…
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