The market is aware that a lack of context is a problem, but it is still in the early stages of building solutions. Building a proper data agent is a blend of technical challenges related to data infrastructure and engineering and human operational challenges related to tribal knowledge collection. This post proposes a modern context layer paired with an agentic data system. Not every enterprise will build this in-house, so the market is open for an external solution.
Everyone should tend to their recurring meetings the way they would tend to any other product they were responsible for. This can reveal unnecessary meetings or issues that no one thought to question. Some meetings only exist because the highest-paid person in the room decided that's how things work. However, attendees can usually adjust the who, what, how, or when these meetings occur.
Redbud VC's pre-seed framework prioritizes how founders reason under pressure over rehearsed answers. Sharpest signals include naming credible failure modes, articulating uncomfortable market beliefs, and showing how customer feedback has changed their thinking. The strongest indicator of success is the ability to say "I don't know" and explain the plan to find out, as early companies typically fail from misjudging reality and updating too slowly.
Your autonomy, your creative ownership, your seat at the table - none of that was ever a right. It was compensation for being hard to replace. A startup founder recently admitted their core team could just do the work themselves with AI, and dealing with ten personalities on a spectrum of competence isn't worth it anymore. You can't walk into a one-on-one and say, "Actually, we just need you to execute now and stop having opinions." So companies are resetting instead. Lay people off, restructure, and rehire the same roles but scoped as trades from the start.
Metcalfe's Law states that each new team member adds n-1 new connections. This means there are 11,175 potential communication channels in a traditional 150-person organization. An AI-enabled team producing equivalent output might need 30 people, dropping potential communication channels down to 435, a 96% reduction. AI-native startups are pulling ahead because fewer humans means fewer channels and faster iteration, compounding speed.
A study of founders behind $5B+ companies revealed recurring traits of neurodivergence, polymathic range, and early trauma that create a visceral connection to the problem being solved.
People who haven't personally built anything in years should be worried, as their careers were built on reliable competence - and the tools just caught up to it.
When organizations verify their posture through live integrations instead of questionnaires, scores come back 20–40 points lower on average. That gap is where breaches happen.
A fraudulent CleanMyMac site uses a ClickFix-style social engineering technique to trick macOS users into pasting a malicious Terminal command that silently installs SHub Stealer, bypassing Gatekeeper entirely. The stealer harvests macOS Keychain credentials via a fake system authentication prompt, targets Exodus, Atomic Wallet, Ledger Live, and Trezor Suite for seed-phrase extraction, and persists via a LaunchAgent disguised as a Google software updater that runs every minute. Russian-language keyboard layouts trigger immediate self-termination, a common indicator of Russian-nexus cybercriminal origin.
ShinyHunters is abusing misconfigured Salesforce Experience Cloud guest-user settings and a customized Aura Inspector tool to mass‑exfiltrate data from hundreds of organizations' CRM instances, then extort victims by threatening to leak it. Salesforce stresses its platform is not vulnerable, shifting responsibility to customers' configuration hygiene and third‑party integrations, making rigorous access reviews and hardening of guest accounts urgent.
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson disclosed that it had suffered a data breach affecting over 16k individuals whose data was held by a third-party service provider. The breached data includes names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, government-issued ID numbers, financial information, medical information, and dates of birth. No cybercrime group has claimed the breach, suggesting that the third party may have paid the ransom, or the cybercriminals could not link the data to Ericsson.
GitHub Security Lab's open source Taskflow Agent employs a multi-stage LLM pipeline — threat modeling, issue suggestion, and thorough audit — to detect high-impact auth bypasses, IDORs, and logic flaws with a low hallucination rate. It has identified over 80 vulnerabilities across more than 40 repositories so far. Out of 1,003 suggested issues, only 21% met the criteria for impactful reporting, with business logic flaws having the highest true-positive rate at 25%, and IDOR issues exceeding combined XSS and CSRF cases. Notable confirmed findings include a privilege escalation in Outline (CVE-2025-64487), PII exposure in WooCommerce (CVE-2025-15033) and Spree (CVE-2026-25758), and a universal authentication bypass in Rocket.Chat's microservices DDP layer (CVE-2026-28514) caused by a missing await on a bcrypt Promise.
The Featured Chrome extension ShotBird (ID: gengfhhkjekmlejbhmmopegofnoifnjp) was weaponized after an ownership transfer between December 2025 and March 2026, transformed into a remote-controlled malware channel that beaconed to api.getextensionanalytics.top, stripped CSP/X-Frame-Options headers via declarative rules.json, injected fake Chrome update lures, and exfiltrated form data including passwords, card/CVV, IBAN, and SSN fields. The file-delivery path dropped googleupdate.exe (SHA256: E8D2ED43...), a WiX Burn bootstrapper bundling a legitimate Google-signed ChromeSetup.exe alongside a stager psfx.msi that decoded to irm orangewater00.com|iex. PowerShell Script Block Logging (Event ID 4104) reconstructed a second stage from 115 fragments, revealing ETW suppression via PSEtwLogProvider, Windows Credential Manager enumeration, Chromium Login Data and Web Data targeting, and exfiltration routines — with infrastructure and endpoint patterns overlapping a parallel campaign involving the QuickLens extension documented by Annex Security.
2026.03.11·
monxresearch-sec.github.io·9 min read·TLDR InfoSec
You've got industry competitors - but they're not the only ones. Today's cybercriminals use the same tools you do and operate like a well-funded business. Meet your hidden competition [12] on March 18: Huntress' John Hammond and YouTuber Jim Browning give you an inside
PyLingual is an open-source CPython bytecode decompiler supporting all Python versions from 3.6 onward, with auto-detection of .pyc version, a segmentation model for control-flow reconstruction, and a web service at pylingual.io for browser-based use.
Cylake is a cybersecurity platform that runs fully on-prem or in a private cloud to protect highly regulated organizations barred from using public cloud, emphasizing data and operational sovereignty.
Open-source WAF bypass toolkit with over 4,300 payloads, 27 recon checks, AI-assisted bypass, and security hardening. Designed for pentesters, bug bounty hunters, and DevSecOps.
The 23-component iPhone exploit toolkit dubbed "Coruna" — targeting iOS 13 through 17.2.1 — has been traced by former employees and iVerify researchers to L3Harris's Trenchant division, originally built for Five Eyes intelligence customers. Former Trenchant GM Peter Williams, sentenced to seven years last month, sold eight company tools to Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero for $1.3M, providing a likely path by which Coruna reached Russian espionage group UNC6353 and later Chinese cybercriminals. Two Coruna exploits (Photon and Gallium) have also been linked to Operation Triangulation, the sophisticated iOS campaign first disclosed by Kaspersky in 2023.
Doyensec maps the full OAuth 2.0/dynamic client registration attack surface in MCP deployments, covering tool poisoning, rug pulls, schema poisoning, prompt injection via tool responses, command injection (CVE-2025-53100, CVE-2025-53818), SSO metadata manipulation (CVE-2025-4144, CVE-2025-4143), DNS rebinding against unauthenticated localhost WebSocket servers, and OIDC discovery endpoint abuse. The proposed Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant (JAG) enterprise authorization model introduces four unresolved risks: no token revocation path for misbehaving agents, LLM-driven scope escalation without user consent, undefined client credential issuance enabling scope namespace collision and resource identifier injection, and ID-JAG replay amplifying blast radius across multiple MCP access tokens. Security teams auditing MCP deployments should treat every step of the authorization chain as an injection point and prioritize mTLS/certificate-based trust anchors, strict resource namespacing, centralized access invalidation, and explicit per-action consent gates for high-risk tool calls.
AI agents are highly flexible and adaptable systems that can affect the outside world via side effects. To effectively secure these workflows, we need to add a deterministic “box” around the agent. In a cloud environment, agents can run in an AgentCore Runtime, which utilizes an AgentCore Gateway to restrict the access an agent has outside of the “box,” and an AgentCore Policy can be utilized to grant the agent authorization to use specific tools in a specific way.
Microsoft Azure autoscales when traffic spikes—adjusting capacity automatically so you can skip the scramble. With more global regions than any other cloud provider, you've always got room to grow. Scale
The FBI issued a PSA warning that criminals are impersonating city and county planning officials in targeted phishing campaigns, using publicly available permit data to craft convincing emails with real property addresses, case numbers, and official names to solicit fraudulent payments via wire transfer, P2P apps, or cryptocurrency.
A vishing-led compromise of a US service provider's employee account exposed sensitive data on 15,661 people linked to Ericsson, including IDs, Social Security numbers, and financial and medical details in some cases.
LinkedIn has quickly become a major source in AI search. From November 2025 to February 2026, it moved from about the 11th most cited domain on ChatGPT to around 5th. Growth is driven largely by UGC. Posts, articles, and newsletters now account for nearly 35% of LinkedIn citations, up from about 27%. AI systems are increasingly indexing this publishing layer, giving individuals and companies more opportunity to expand visibility and credibility by sharing expertise on the platform.
Anthropic's Labor Market Impacts report ranked marketing specialists fifth among 800 occupations most exposed to AI displacement. The vulnerability extends well beyond content creation to research, segmentation, brand strategy, and competitive analysis. This type of work makes up roughly 80% of what marketers do. US marketing job postings fell 7% YoY in Q2 2025, salaries stayed flat in real terms, and hiring of younger workers in exposed roles dropped 14% versus 2022.
Strong social media videos rely on 3 hooks in the first few seconds to capture attention. Start with a text on screen hook that quickly signals what the video will cover, often through a question or cliffhanger. Pair it with a concise spoken hook that includes key words and delivers the message immediately, since viewers decide quickly whether to keep watching. Add a visual hook through movement or editing, such as zooms, transitions, or dynamic framing, to create curiosity and keep the viewer engaged.
88% of consumers are more likely to choose businesses that respond to all reviews and those businesses earning 35% more revenue than average. Consumers also spend up to 49% more at businesses that engage with feedback, and a one-star rating improvement can translate to a 5-9% revenue lift according to Harvard research. With 89% of consumers now expecting responses and 50% put off by templated replies, personalized and timely engagement has shifted from a nice-to-have to a baseline expectation, especially for small businesses.
The Head of Marketing at BizMachine moved the team's marketing infrastructure from Google Drive to GitHub because their AI-driven workflows had grown too complex for a shared drive. The team manages numerous AI agents, skills, context files, and automations that require reliable collaboration and change tracking. Google Drive lacked version control and structured review, making it difficult to manage updates as the team grew. GitHub provides version history, pull requests, and testing branches, allowing workflows to be updated and tested safely, similar to how engineering teams manage shared infrastructure.
This guide explains how the Claude Cowork plugins package pre-built workflows that allow complex tasks to run with minimal setup. Each plugin bundles domain skills, slash commands for specific actions, integrations with tools such as HubSpot, Ahrefs, and background agents that handle multi-step work. The Marketing Plugin includes commands to plan campaigns, review brand voice, and audit SEO.
2026.03.11·
getmarketingwithai.substack.com·5 min read·TLDR Marketing
Consumers are most likely to switch brands after they gain some experience in a product category but before they become experts. Analysis of 3.7 million product reviews across nearly 30 years showed that confidence follows an inverted U pattern as experience grows. People were 4.5% more likely to switch makeup brands after reviewing 2 to 10 products, and 54% of people who switched never returned. The research shows that prompting customers to reflect on product quality or benefits can increase confidence and reduce switching.
LLMs increase output speed but weaken problem definition when teams skip critique and rely on AI-generated prototypes. Tools like ChatGPT spread quickly because they fit workflows that reward speed and visible activity instead of real progress. AI can generate code or designs in seconds, but the output is statistically average and cannot signal when it fails. Humans must review every result, and constant checking increases mental fatigue and burnout. The typical AI prototype workflow lacks a structured design critique, where people question the purpose of a design, examine why decisions were made, and test whether the solution actually solves the user's problem.
To make content compelling, focus on finding a specific angle rather than just covering a topic. Avoid “everyday angles” that are common statements your audience has seen many times. Instead, create a “payday angle” by identifying a specific problem your audience faces, uncovering an unexpected or counterintuitive truth about it, and presenting a better path forward. This requires customer research and listening to sales calls. A strong payday angle interrupts expectations and provides insight competitors aren't offering, ensuring your work is noticed.