Recently, Rob wrote about a tool, Proxifier, that can intercept requests from specific processes. Proxifier is available for Windows, macOS, and Android. But I have not seen a generic Linux option yet. The advantage of a tool like Proxifier is the ability to target specific software. For debugging, reverse engineering, and similar tasks, selecting a…
Tag: requests
AI, Global Security News
Content Delivery Exploit Opens Websites to Brand Hijacking
The Underminr domain-fronting attack allows threat actors to modify Web requests and leverage trusted websites to cloak malicious activity.
Endpoint, Global Security News
Today’s Odd Web Requests, (Wed, Apr 29th)
Today, two different “new” requests hit our honeypots. Both appear to be recon requests and not associated with specific vulnerabilities. But as always, please let me know if you have additional information 1 – Broadcom API Gateway GET /bam/restart/if/required Host: [redacted]:8080 Connection: close This request is targeting a Broadcom API Gateway endpoint. As is, the request should…
AI, Apps, Global Security News
HTTP Requests with X-Vercel-Set-Bypass-Cookie Header, (Tue, Apr 28th)
This weekend, we saw a few requests to our honeypot that included an “X-Vercel-Set-Bypass-Cookie” header. A sample request: GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/ *;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: keep-alive X-Vercel-Set-Bypass-Cookie: samesite-none-secure Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 X-Forwarded-From: 21.235.92.139 X-Real-Iphone: 21.235.92.139 Referer: [redacted, same…
AI, APAC, Global Security News
In the Rush to Scale AI, Operational Limits Are Emerging, Datadog Report Finds
Nearly 1 in 20 AI requests fail in production as capacity limits become the primary bottleneck to scaling AI reliably
AI, Endpoint, Global Security News, Risk Management
Command integrity breaks in the LLM routing layer
Systems that rely on LLM agents often send requests through intermediary routing services before reaching a model. These routers connect to different providers through a single endpoint and manage how requests are handled. This layer can influence what gets executed and what data is exposed. A recent study examined 28 paid routers and 400 free…
Global Security News, privacy
Audit: Big Tech Often Ignores CA Privacy Law Opt-Out Requests
Google, Meta, and Microsoft about half the time don’t comply with requests to opt out of online tracking per a California law mandate, privacy watchdog finds.
AI, Global Security News
Click, wait, repeat: Digital trust erodes one login at a time
Sign-up forms that drag on, login steps that repeat, and access requests that take longer than expected have become a normal part of using digital services. These moments rarely stand out on their own, and over time they influence how people judge the systems they rely on. The 2026 Thales Digital Trust Index reflects that…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
Open source maintainers being targeted by AI agent as part of ‘reputation farming’
AI agents able to submit huge numbers of pull requests (PRs) to open-source project maintainers risk creating the conditions for future supply chain attacks targeting important software projects, developer security company Socket has argued. The warning comes after one of its developers, Nolan Lawson, last week received an email regarding the PouchDB JavaScript database he…
Global Security News
Malicious Commands in GitHub Codespaces Enable RCE
Flaws in GitHub Codespaces allow RCE via crafted repositories or pull requests