In the cybersecurity community, we build our defenses on a foundation of trust. We trust an AI coding assistant because it’s on our approved software list or can accomplish a task when prompted. We trust a remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool because IT likely installed it to help end users and it has a trusted signature.
When trust becomes the payload: Inside the threats, etc quarterly report
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