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Data Exfiltration

The AI Layer Is Becoming an Exfiltration Surface: SearchLeak, LiteLLM, and the Pattern Underneath

16 June 2026·1176 words·6 mins

AI Security Data Exfiltration Prompt Injection Cloud Security Agentic AI

Two disclosures, one pattern. The AI tools adopted for productivity are now both an exfiltration surface and an instruction-injection surface.

Covert Channels and Protocol Abuse: How Data Quietly Leaves Networks

12 June 2026·1772 words·9 mins

Security Operations Data Exfiltration Network Security Detection Engineering Threat Intelligence

A practitioner primer on protocol abuse: how data quietly leaves networks through DNS, ICMP, HTTPS/TLS, and the headers of TCP itself.