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Real-world research.
Where the attacks actually are.

Attack research you can run against your own environment. Mitiga Labs' researchers and responders work real breaches across cloud, SaaS, identity, third-party services, and AI. Every finding comes with the method to check your own estate.

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AI & Agent Security

PromptLogger: The Hidden Exfiltration Layer in AI Instruction Files

Mitiga Labs Team

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Identity & Access

Threat Hunting & Detection

Hunting Third-Party App Abuse in Entra

Ucha Gobejishvili

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AWS

Threat Hunting & Detection

When Detection Engineering Becomes a Data Engineering Problem

Yafit Shayo

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A Skill Is Just Text.
So Is a Backdoor.

INSTRUCTION FILES YOUR AGENT READS — AND NOBODY OPENS.

Rule files, hooks, and CLAUDE.md run automatically the moment an agent loads them. Mitiga Labs found instruction files quietly recording prompts, tokens, and environment variables, then shipping them out. No malware, often no audit log.

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PromptLogger: The Hidden Exfiltration Layer in AI Instruction Files

A Research Report from Mitiga Labs

What We Saw in 2025.
What Comes Next.

The cloud attack campaigns and research that defined a year.

2025 was the year the threat got smarter. Attackers skipped zero-days and walked in through trusted identities, OAuth links, API chains, and lateral SaaS paths.

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What We Saw in 2025.
The Year the Threat Got Smarter

A Threat Intelligence Report from Mitiga Labs

From Attacks to Zero Impact

Mitiga Labs is where we take apart cloud, SaaS, identity, third-party services and AI attacks, then write what they find into the detections customers run. Those detections interrupt the next attack before it reaches the business. That's Zero-Impact Breach Prevention.

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Latest from the Labs

Explore the latest discoveries, deep dives, and technical how-tos from the Mitiga Labs team. Our research is dedicated to informing defenders and disrupting attackers.

PromptLogger: The Hidden Exfiltration Layer in AI Instruction Files

A Mitiga Labs report on PromptLoggers and exfiltration hidden in AI instruction files — six real public-repo case studies, the techniques, and how to detect them before an agent runs.

Mitiga Research Team

Hunting Third-Party App Abuse in Entra

Stolen ConnectWise app credentials gave attackers app-only access to Microsoft 365. A six-part method for hunting third-party app abuse in Entra ID.

Ucha Gobejishvili

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When Detection Engineering Becomes a Data Engineering Problem

In a security data lake, a detection can be correct and still never finish. How two months of PySpark tuning became 34 rules that cut runtime up to 60%.

Yafit Shayo

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Software Supply Chain & CI/CD

Cloud Forensics & Logging

GitHub Security Logs: What They Reveal and What to Hunt For

What GitHub security logs reveal — the events to hunt for, the long-lived tokens to watch, and what to check right now.

Austin Bollinger

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AI Agents & MCP

Software Supply Chain & CI/CD

Inside the AI Supply Chain: Security Lessons from 10,000 Open-Source ML Projects

Analysis of 10,000 open-source AI/ML repositories reveals 70% have critical or high-severity vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions workflows, making them prone to attacks like code injection, credential theft, or repo takeover via malicious PRs.

Ucha Gobejishvili

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SaaS Applications

Breach & Campaign Analysis

Scattered Lapsus$ Shiny Hunters Strikes Salesforce Again

SLSH claims responsibility for breaching Gainsight, abusing OAuth tokens to target hundreds of Salesforce environments. Learn what happened, who’s affected, and how to respond.

Idan Cohen

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Google Cloud

Attack Research

CORSLeak: Abusing IAP for a Stealthy Data Exfiltration Attack

Our research on CORSLeak shows how a CORS vulnerability in Google Cloud IAP enables stealthy data exfiltration. Learn the risks and how to defend systems.

Ariel Kalman

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Identity & Access

Breach & Campaign Analysis

From Rogue OAuth App to Cloud Infrastructure Takeover

Mitiga reveals how a phishing attack exploited a rogue OAuth app to breach cloud systems. Discover how to defend against OAuth attacks and read more now.

Ucha Gobejishvili

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SaaS Applications

Breach & Campaign Analysis

Salesforce Data Loader Exfiltration Attack Explained

Read how threat actors exploited Salesforce Data Loader for covert exfiltration. Learn Mitiga’s detection and defense strategies to stay protected.

Nir Varon

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Attack Research

Identity & Access

God-Mode in the Shadows: When Security Tools and Excessive Permissions Become Cloud Security Risks

Detect hidden shadow access vulnerabilities with Mitiga's analysis of third-party security tools running with unrestricted access across cloud environments.

Nir Varon

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Breach & Campaign Analysis

Identity & Access

Hackers in Aisle 5: What DragonForce Taught Us About Zero Trust

Read and learn about human-centric threats in Mitiga's breakdown of the DragonForce social engineering attacks targeting retail zero-trust networks.

Jed Morley

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SaaS Applications

Threat Hunting & Detection

No One Mourns the Wicked: Your Guide to a Successful Salesforce Threat Hunt

Salesforce is a cloud-based platform widely used by organizations to manage customer relationships, sales pipelines, and core business processes.

Ariel Szarf

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Research Team

Ariel Ainhoren

Head of Cloud Security Research

Ucha Gobejishvili

Senior Incident Responder
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Roei Sherman

Senior Director, Mitiga Research

Idan Cohen

Cloud Researcher
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Yael Ben Yair

Cloud Security Researcher
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Asad Saffoury

Cloud Security Researcher
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Oshrat Bar

Cloud Security Researcher
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Yafit Shayo

Cloud Security Researcher
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