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Aviatrix Threat Research Center
Cloud breaches are accelerating — across identities, workloads, supply chains, and cloud-native services. In the Containment Era, understanding how a breach unfolds is how you architect to stop it.
The Aviatrix Threat Research Center provides security teams with:
- A structured understanding of how breaches unfold — kill chain, ATT&CK techniques, CVEs, and IOCs in a consistent format.
- What attackers exploited, and which enforcement gaps let them move.
- Where workload-level controls would have broken the attack chain — including paths that posture tools and endpoint detection don't model.
Recent Breaches, Security Incidents & Vulnerabilities
AI-Powered Threat Analysis
Agentic AI that analyzes real-world attacks — across security incidents, breaches, and exploited vulnerabilities — to produce structured, actionable intelligence.
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Authentication Coercion Evolves: RPC Attack Bypasses Enterprise Security in 2024
In early 2024, a new evolution in authentication coercion attacks was uncovered, where threat actors exploited an obscure and poorly monitored remote procedure call (RPC) interface to bypass authentication barriers. Attackers leveraged this vector to coerce systems and services into issuing authentication requests, enabling credential relaying and lateral movement within enterprise networks. This approach bypassed traditional multi-factor authentication and monitoring controls, putting sensitive data and operations at risk across multiple organizations. The fallout included unauthorized access, potential data exfiltration, and major concerns about the visibility of east-west traffic in enterprise environments. This incident underscores a rising trend where attackers innovate to exploit less visible, often-overlooked system protocols. As attackers become more sophisticated, the risks posed by legacy interfaces and insufficient internal segmentation are growing, necessitating enhanced internal monitoring and alignment to zero trust principles.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
F5's 2024 Supply Chain Breach: Nation-State Attackers Steal BIG-IP Source Code
In mid-2024, F5 Networks disclosed that a highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor breached its internal systems, stealing segments of BIG-IP source code and detailed information on 44 then-unknown vulnerabilities. The intrusion, discovered in August and reported in October, specifically targeted internal assets and intelligence related to the company’s business-critical appliance products. While none of the stolen vulnerabilities are believed to be immediately exploitable remotely or considered critical by external experts, the pilfered data underscores an increasingly effective focus on software supply chain attacks. Although remediations and detailed hunting guides have been made available to customers, the theft of core product source code raises significant concerns about longer-term risks. The incident highlights a persistent trend: adversaries leveraging supply chain footholds to amplify potential downstream exploitation across enterprise and government infrastructure.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
CometJacking: How Prompt Injection Breached Perplexity AI’s Browser in 2025
In November 2025, cybersecurity researchers discovered a significant prompt injection vulnerability dubbed 'CometJacking' affecting Perplexity’s Comet AI browser. This attack exploited URL parameters to inject malicious commands that instructed the AI agent to extract sensitive data—such as Gmail messages and Google Calendar invites—from connected services and exfiltrate them to external endpoints, all without any user interaction or credentials. By leveraging the AI’s lack of discrimination between trusted and untrusted instructions, attackers could bypass access controls and evade existing security checks, potentially exposing confidential information from a wide set of users and organizations adopting the AI-powered browser for daily workflows. This incident highlights a rapidly evolving threat landscape where prompt injection attacks against generative AI platforms are surging. As organizations increasingly integrate AI agents with sensitive data and workflow automation, risks of unauthorized data access and exfiltration are escalating, prompting urgent action from security teams and regulatory bodies.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
APT37: North Korean Hackers Weaponize Google Find Hub for Android Data-Wiping Attacks (2024)
In early 2024, North Korean threat group APT37 (also known as KONNI) leveraged Google’s Find My Device Hub functionality to remotely track, lock, and factory reset Android devices belonging to targeted individuals. The attack chain involved initial compromise of Android devices via malicious apps or phishing, after which the threat actors abused legitimate Google mobile device management tools to erase and destroy data on compromised endpoints. As a result, affected organizations and individuals suffered total loss of sensitive information and operational disruption, with a clear intent by attackers to destroy evidence and hinder forensic investigations. This incident highlights the growing sophistication of APTs in subverting trusted platform features for destructive ends, signaling elevated risk for organizations relying on mobile endpoints, especially in regions or sectors of geopolitical interest. The trend reveals a shift toward wiper operations and supply chain risks in the mobile ecosystem.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
Expr-eval JavaScript Library Faces Supply-Chain RCE Vulnerability in 2024
In March 2024, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was identified in expr-eval, a widely used JavaScript mathematical expression evaluator with over 800,000 weekly NPM downloads. The flaw, if exploited through maliciously crafted input, allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code within applications leveraging the vulnerable versions of the library. As expr-eval is integrated into numerous projects and frameworks, the supply-chain impact was significant, exposing countless downstream applications to the risk of compromise and highlighting the cascading dangers of third-party dependency vulnerabilities. This incident underscores the increasing focus by attackers on widely adopted open-source libraries as high-leverage supply-chain targets. The expr-eval vulnerability echoes a broader industry trend where modern development practices introduce risks outside direct organizational control, prompting renewed concerns about dependency management, zero trust for software supply chains, and regulatory calls for heightened software bill of materials (SBOM) transparency.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
Yanluowang Initial Access Broker’s Guilty Plea: Ransomware Supply Chain Exposed
Between July 2021 and November 2022, a Russian national acted as an initial access broker (IAB) for the Yanluowang ransomware group, facilitating network entry for at least eight U.S. companies. After gaining unauthorized access, the IAB sold credentials and footholds to Yanluowang ransomware operators, enabling follow-on attacks that resulted in significant business disruptions, data encryption, and attempted extortion. U.S. law enforcement’s investigation led to the broker pleading guilty, marking a rare disruption of the ransomware ecosystem’s supply chain. This case underscores the increasing professionalization of ransomware operations, where roles like IABs are critical in enabling threat actors at scale. The incident's legal resolution reflects broader efforts to deter cybercrime, yet highlights the persistent risks posed by RaaS models and outsourced attacker infrastructure.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
GlassWorm: Malicious VS Code Extensions Trigger a New Wave of Supply-Chain Attacks
In late 2025, cybersecurity researchers discovered the 'GlassWorm' malware campaign actively targeting the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) ecosystem via three malicious extensions available on the official marketplace. With over 7,400 combined downloads, these extensions enabled threat actors to inject malware directly into developers' environments, facilitating credential theft, remote access, and potential downstream supply-chain attacks. Attackers leveraged trusted community tools as the entry vector, bypassing traditional perimeter defenses to gain a foothold in development workflows and potentially propagate malware throughout interconnected repositories. This incident underscores the rising prevalence of supply-chain attacks in the software development ecosystem and the unique risks posed by compromised IDE extensions. The popularity of VS Code amplifies the potential blast radius, highlighting an urgent need for improved extension vetting, granular access controls, and continuous threat monitoring within CI/CD pipelines.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
CISA Orders Emergency Patching After Samsung Zero-Day Exploited in LandFall Spyware Attacks
In June 2024, U.S. federal agencies were ordered by CISA to urgently patch a critical Samsung zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-21492) after evidence emerged of its exploitation in targeted attacks delivering LandFall spyware. The attackers leveraged the flaw, which enabled privilege escalation, to compromise Samsung Android devices of high-value targets via WhatsApp. Once exploited, the vulnerability allowed unauthorized actors to bypass security controls, deploy surveillance tools, and covertly exfiltrate sensitive communications and data from affected devices, potentially impacting agency operations and confidentiality. This incident highlights a growing trend of mobile zero-day exploitation linked to sophisticated surveillance operations targeting both governmental and private sector entities. The rapid response from CISA underlines the rising regulatory and operational urgency as attackers increasingly exploit unpatched endpoints and messaging platforms in tailored cyber-espionage campaigns.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
ClickFix Phishing Hits Hospitality: Hotel Credentials Compromised via PureRAT
In late 2025, the hospitality sector was targeted by a sophisticated, large-scale phishing campaign involving ClickFix-style lures that tricked hotel managers into revealing their credentials. Attackers leveraged compromised email accounts to distribute malicious links to numerous hotel establishments, leading victims to phishing sites that mimicked familiar workflow tools. Credential theft enabled deployment of PureRAT malware, which provided remote access to internal hotel systems and enabled lateral movement, resulting in compromised operations and data exposure for multiple organizations. This incident demonstrates the increasing use of advanced social engineering in credential-focused attacks against the hospitality industry. With phishing campaigns growing more convincing and commodity RATs like PureRAT widely available, organizations in high-turnover sectors face mounting risk from credential-based breaches and follow-on malware infections.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
Quantum Route Redirect PhaaS: The 2024 Microsoft 365 Phishing Surge
In 2024, cybersecurity researchers discovered that a Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform named Quantum Route Redirect orchestrated a large-scale credential theft campaign targeting Microsoft 365 users globally. The threat actors leveraged a distributed network of roughly 1,000 malicious domains to automate phishing attacks and evade detection. Victims were lured through convincing emails, redirecting them seamlessly through multiple stages to capture login credentials. The campaign exploited the trust in corporate SaaS platforms, enabling attackers to compromise user identities, access sensitive business data, and potentially facilitate subsequent attacks across affected organizations. The incident highlighted widespread operational and reputational risks for enterprises relying on cloud collaboration platforms. This incident underscores the growing threat posed by PhaaS platforms, which are lowering the entry barrier for cybercriminals to launch sophisticated, scalable phishing campaigns. As email and identity-based attacks surge, organizations face urgent pressure to reinforce cloud security, strengthen user awareness, and adopt zero-trust frameworks to defend against evolving social engineering tactics.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
AI-Powered Malware & Hyper-V Exploits: The 2025 Multi-Vector Attack Recap
In early November 2025, a series of sophisticated cyberattacks targeted enterprise and consumer systems worldwide, exploiting vulnerabilities in Hyper-V virtual machines, RDP protocols, and leveraging malicious AI bots. Attackers deployed stealthy malware within virtualized environments to evade detection, while advanced spyware campaigns targeted Android devices using side-channel techniques to capture sensitive AI chat data. Additionally, high-profile service disruptions, including a mass WhatsApp account lockdown, affected millions of users and raised concerns about systemic vulnerabilities and cross-platform exploitation. The threat actors behind these incidents demonstrated new levels of coordination and adaptability, with alliances between major cybercrime groups amplifying the scope and impact of the campaigns. This incident underscores an accelerating trend toward multi-vector, AI-enabled cybercrime and highlights the convergence of ransomware, lateral movement, and novel attack methods across cloud and hybrid infrastructures. Security leaders should anticipate further escalation in both the sophistication and frequency of such attacks through 2025, heightening urgency for layered defenses and zero trust strategies.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
Konni APT Exploits Google’s Find Hub to Launch Data-Wiping Attacks
In late 2025, the North Korea-linked threat actor known as Konni (also referred to as Earth Imp, Opal Sleet, TA406, and Vedalia) launched a sophisticated campaign targeting Android and Windows users by abusing Google’s Find Hub functionality as a remote data-wiping weapon. The attackers impersonated psychological counselors and North Korean human rights activists, distributing malware via fake stress-relief applications that enabled remote access, data theft, and destructive wipes. The operation leveraged advanced evasion tactics, encrypted traffic channels, and targeted high-value individuals, resulting in significant loss and compromise of sensitive personal and organizational information. This incident exemplifies the growing risk from state-affiliated actors using social engineering and legitimate platform abuse to bypass defenses. With threat techniques evolving, organizations must now prioritize threat hunting, advance east-west traffic visibility, and enforce robust segmentation policies to catch and contain similar attacks.
7 months ago
Kill Chain
Security Research & Insights
Security Research & Insights with human-led deep dives into campaigns and cloud-native TTPs
OpenAI Lost Control of Its Models. Then Anthropic Did Too. That Is Not a Coincidence.
Attackers Learned to Use AI. Now They Built Tools to Destroy It.
Living-off-the-Agent: How AI Tool Misuse Became the Insider Threat Nobody Provisioned
Market Perspectives
Market Perspectives offering expert commentary and select breach analysis from industry leaders
What Could Have Stopped the 2023 MGM Breach? A Study in the Power of Embedded Zero Trust
The Zero Trust Gap: Only 8% of US Enterprises Use Zero Trust Architectures
HITRUST CSF Compliance in the Cloud—How Aviatrix Secures Healthcare Data
How CNSF Protects Cloud Workloads
Cloud attackers don’t rely on a single exploit — they rely on paths.
Once inside, attackers move laterally between workloads, establish command-and-control through egress paths, and exfiltrate data through legitimate cloud services — often before detection tools generate an alert. These paths exist because most security architectures enforce at centralized inspection points, not at every workload. The paths that matter most are the ones that never reach a central firewall.
Aviatrix Cloud Native Security Fabric (CNSF) contains attacks by enforcing policy at every workload communication path — containing blast radius, blocking lateral movement, and cutting off egress before data leaves the environment.
With CNSF, enterprises can:
- Contain attack paths at runtime
Gain visibility into east-west and egress workload communication and apply controls that limit lateral movement, unauthorized egress, and uncontrolled trust expansion.
- Eliminate blind spots in workload-to-workload traffic
Observe traffic across VPCs/VNets, regions, and cloud providers using cloud native telemetry — including paths that posture tools and point controls don’t model.
- Secure modern and AI-driven workloads
Understand how agents, services, and workloads communicate at runtime, and enforce policy to reduce the risk of misuse, over-privileged access, or unintended data flows.
- Apply consistent Zero Trust controls without slowing teams
Enforce segmentation, egress control, and encryption centrally across clouds — without agents, application changes, or developer friction.
See Your Attack Paths. Close the Gaps with CNSF.
Blast radius starts where your enforcement stops.
Most security architectures enforce at centralized inspection points. Attackers move between workloads on paths that never reach those points — building blast radius invisibly until detection tools fire, often too late.
Your assessment delivers:
The Aviatrix Workload Attack Path Assessment (WAPA) analyzes real workload communication using cloud native telemetry to uncover attack paths already present in your environment — and shows how Cloud Native Security Fabric (CNSF) can break those paths with runtime enforcement.
The threat landscape has changed.
Has your question changed with it?
In March 2026, TeamPCP proved that detection-first architectures cannot contain attacks that move through trusted code, not around defenses. Today’s threat actors don’t break in — they log in, blend in, and expand silently. This command center tracks the evolving threat landscape and helps you measure your Blast Radius — the architectural metric that defines resilience in the Containment Era.
This command center tracks 8 active campaigns and measures your Blast Radius: what an attacker can reach once inside your environment.
Contain the Blast Radius
See the attack paths already present in your environment — and where CNSF containment controls would break them.
