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The Mobile AppSec Evaluation Guide for Security Leaders

Mobile security feels mature. Enterprises scan frequently, track findings, and report posture upward. Yet under regulatory scrutiny, cracks appear. This gap between perceived security and defensible governance is where mobile AppSec quietly fails. The illusion isn’t that security isn’t happening. It’s that it isn’t aligned with how regulated risk actually operates.

What is Slopsquatting? The AI Package Hallucination Attack Already Happening

Typosquatting, registering a typoed version of a popular package and waiting for a developer to accidentally type and install the wrong package, has been around for a decade in npm. It’s nothing new— the registry has protections for it. Then AI came along and changed everything again. Slopsquatting is the new, AI flavor of typosquatting. Instead of betting on human typos, attackers bet on AI hallucinations, the package names that LLMs confidently recommend that don't actually exist.

The Attackers Lens The Hidden Path To Largescale LLM Exploits

Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.

A 101 Guide to Web Application Security

Web application security is the prevention and protection of web applications through protocols and processes implemented to ensure a cyber threat and vulnerability-free web environment. Modern applications need to handle sensitive customer data, financial transactions, and proprietary business data, as most of the world has transitioned to digital business. As a result, these systems have been prime targets for various attackers seeking to exfiltrate data, disable services, or gain access to the systems.

Exploitability Isn't the Answer. Breakability Is.

Why don’t developers fix every AppSec vulnerability, every time, as soon as they’re found? The most common answer? Time. Modern security tools can surface thousands of vulnerabilities in a given codebase. Fixing them all would take up a development team’s entire capacity, often competing with feature development and other priorities.

From Acceleration to Exposure: Why AI Demands Mature AppSec

For most engineering teams, AI feels like a breakthrough years in the making. Code gets written faster, reviews move quicker, and releases that once took weeks now happen in days—or even hours. But as more of the software lifecycle becomes automated, a less comfortable reality is setting in: application security hasn’t kept pace, and AI-native security practices are often missing. When AppSec foundations are immature, AI doesn’t reduce risk—it scales it.

How MCP Servers Can Propagate Prompt Injection #mcp #promptinjection #aisecurity

Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.

Introducing Aikido Expansion Packs: Safer defaults inside the IDE

Developers work in a few core loops: writing code, committing changes, installing dependencies, and increasingly working alongside AI in the editor. Aikido Expansion Packs are built around those moments. They let you add focused security capabilities to Aikido that run locally, inside your IDE, and fit naturally into how developers already work. Each pack addresses a specific part of the workflow and does not require new tools, new pipelines, or new processes.

International AI Safety Report 2026: What It Means for Autonomous AI Systems

The International AI Safety Report 2026 is one of the most comprehensive overviews to date of the risks posed by general-purpose AI systems. It’s compiled by over 100 independent experts from more than 30 countries, and shows that while AI systems are performing at levels that seemed like science fiction only a few years ago, the risks of misuse, malfunction, and systematic and cross-border harms are clear. It makes a compelling case for better evaluation, transparency, and guardrails.