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## [AI Cyber Agents Advance Vulnerability Discovery](https://reflare.com/research/ai-cyber-agents-advance-vulnerability-discovery)

 by [**Reflare Research Team**](https://reflare.com/research/author/reflare-research-team) on Oct 7, 2025, 3:22:28 PM

[![](https://reflare.com/hubfs/Blog%20image%20in%20post/AI%20Cyber%20Agents%20Advance%20Vulnerability%20Discovery%20(1200).jpg)](https://reflare.com/research/ai-cyber-agents-advance-vulnerability-discovery)

 Once thought impossible, AI agents are now finding zero-day vulnerabilities in real software. Now, they are exposing critical flaws that traditional tools have missed, which is pushing security from reactive fixes to proactive defence.

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Topics: [Anatomy of a Breach](https://reflare.com/research/tag/anatomy-of-a-breach)

## [Hackers on the Company Payroll](https://reflare.com/research/hackers-on-the-company-payroll)

 by [**Reflare Research Team**](https://reflare.com/research/author/reflare-research-team) on Sep 8, 2025, 9:26:04 AM

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 There was a time when security teams primarily worried about hackers breaching the corporate perimeter. Today, threat actors have figured out something much simpler: why break in when you can just get hired?

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Topics: [Infosec Culture](https://reflare.com/research/tag/infosec-culture)

## [How Online Safety Acts Create More Danger Than They Prevent](https://reflare.com/research/how-online-safety-acts-create-more-danger-than-they-prevent)

 by [**Reflare Research Team**](https://reflare.com/research/author/reflare-research-team) on Aug 13, 2025, 9:49:11 AM

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 Tea's failure to protect their customers exposes a broader problem. Whether platforms gather data voluntarily or to comply with new safety laws, massive databases of government IDs and biometric data are protected by laughably inadequate security.

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Topics: [Anatomy of a Breach](https://reflare.com/research/tag/anatomy-of-a-breach)

## [How to Evaluate Your CTF Program](https://reflare.com/research/how-to-evaluate-your-ctf-program)

 by [**Reflare Research Team**](https://reflare.com/research/author/reflare-research-team) on Jul 11, 2025, 9:41:10 AM

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 Rolling out an in-house CTF can feel like reinventing the wheel, designing custom challenges is time-intensive, running the platform demands ongoing resources, and unseen organisational biases can skew the learning experience. When budgets tighten, these internal programs, which are e …

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## [How to Solve CTF Crackmes Like Pros](https://reflare.com/research/how-to-solve-ctf-crackmes-like-pros)

 by [**Reflare Research Team**](https://reflare.com/research/author/reflare-research-team) on Jun 4, 2025, 2:20:30 PM

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 Crackmes aren’t just puzzles; they’re battlegrounds for reverse engineering mastery. From tearing apart broken crypto to decoding custom virtual machines, elite CTF players rely on a blend of math, timing tricks, and deep code intuition.

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## [How Indie Documentaries Are Creating Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Experts (and Cyber Criminals)](https://reflare.com/research/how-indie-documentaries-are-creating-tomorrows-cybersecurity-experts-and-cyber-criminals)

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 Behind every teenager watching hacker documentaries today is a future CISO, or a future cybercriminal. The storytelling matters more than ever.

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## [Is Security Talent Born or Made?](https://reflare.com/research/is-security-talent-born-or-made)

 by [**Reflare Research Team**](https://reflare.com/research/author/reflare-research-team) on Apr 4, 2025, 3:55:10 PM

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 Are great security professionals naturally talented, or do they become great through training and experience? This is not just an interesting debate; it shapes how we identify, hire, and develop cybersecurity talent at a time when skilled professionals are hard to find.

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## [A Brief Introduction to Zero-Days](https://reflare.com/research/a-brief-introduction-to-zero-days)

 by [**Reflare Research Team**](https://reflare.com/research/author/reflare-research-team) on Mar 12, 2025, 4:15:49 PM

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 Zero-day vulnerabilities, unknown to software vendors and without available patches, create a perfect storm in which attackers gain a critical time advantage.

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## [AIs Can Now Clone Themselves](https://reflare.com/research/ais-can-now-clone-themselves)

 by [**Reflare Research Team**](https://reflare.com/research/author/reflare-research-team) on Feb 5, 2025, 2:31:55 PM

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 Remember Agent Smith in The Matrix, copying himself across the digital world until every program in the system became another Smith? What seemed like science fiction - an artificial intelligence that could create perfect copies of itself - is no longer just a movie plot.

[Read Story](https://reflare.com/research/ais-can-now-clone-themselves)

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## [When the Guards Turn into Vulnerabilities](https://reflare.com/research/when-the-guards-turn-into-vulnerabilities)

 by [**Reflare Research Team**](https://reflare.com/research/author/reflare-research-team) on Jan 17, 2025, 11:38:51 AM

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 Imagine investing in security products only to find they’re giving hackers free reign over your network. This latest crisis isn’t just a fluke - it’s part of an alarming trend in security failures that aren’t doing the industry any favours.

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