In a browser where autonomous agents plan, click, and ship messages in seconds, a single hidden instruction can turn a helpful assistant into a quiet saboteur before anyone notices. That tension defined the debut of agent-enabled browsing, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas standing front and center as a
Rupert Marais has spent years in the trenches of endpoint defense and Windows tradecraft, and he brings a practitioner’s eye to an operation that blends social engineering with living-off-the-land persistence. In this conversation with Russell Fairweather, he traces Dropping Elephant’s multi-stage
Sebastian Raiffen sits down with Rupert Marais, our in-house security specialist known for hands-on work in endpoint and device security, to unpack CISA’s latest alert on spyware and RATs aimed at high-value Signal and WhatsApp users. Rupert traces how attackers braid social engineering with
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, few topics are as pressing as the security implications of AI-generated code, especially when influenced by politically sensitive content. Today, we’re speaking with Rupert Marais, our in-house security specialist with deep
Imagine a scenario where a single flaw in a widely used enterprise tool could compromise the security of countless organizations worldwide, exposing sensitive data to malicious actors. This is the alarming reality facing users of Oracle Identity Manager, a cornerstone for managing user identities
In the sprawling ecosystem of software development, a staggering number of developers rely on npm, the largest package manager for JavaScript, to build and deploy their applications, but beneath this veneer of convenience lurks a growing danger: malicious packages designed to exploit trust and
