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  1. package/CHANGELOG.md +38 -0
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  19. package/data/playbooks/ai-api.json +5 -5
  20. package/data/playbooks/ai-discovered-cve-triage.json +7 -7
  21. package/data/playbooks/cicd-pipeline-compromise.json +1 -2
  22. package/data/playbooks/cloud-iam-incident.json +11 -11
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  26. package/data/playbooks/crypto.json +4 -4
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  30. package/data/playbooks/kernel.json +3 -3
  31. package/data/playbooks/llm-tool-use-exfil.json +1 -1
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  38. package/data/playbooks/supply-chain-recovery.json +1 -2
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  57. package/skills/ai-attack-surface/skill.md +11 -9
  58. package/skills/ai-c2-detection/skill.md +5 -6
  59. package/skills/ai-risk-management/skill.md +6 -5
  60. package/skills/api-security/skill.md +8 -8
  61. package/skills/attack-surface-pentest/skill.md +1 -1
  62. package/skills/cloud-iam-incident/skill.md +2 -2
  63. package/skills/cloud-security/skill.md +2 -1
  64. package/skills/compliance-theater/skill.md +4 -4
  65. package/skills/coordinated-vuln-disclosure/skill.md +1 -1
  66. package/skills/decompression-dos/skill.md +1 -1
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  78. package/skills/policy-exception-gen/skill.md +1 -1
  79. package/skills/pqc-first/skill.md +1 -1
  80. package/skills/privacy-consent-ops/skill.md +1 -1
  81. package/skills/rag-pipeline-security/skill.md +1 -1
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  - **Dwell time has compressed, but the window for regulator-clock compliance has compressed faster.** Mandiant M-Trends 2026 reports a global median dwell time of 7 days, down from 16 days in 2022. The classical IR cycle (detect → triage → contain → eradicate → recover → lessons) assumed quarters of engineering capacity. EU CRA Art. 11 (24h early warning for actively exploited vulnerabilities) and EU NIS2 Art. 23 (24h early warning for significant incidents at essential/important entities) collapse the time between "we have telemetry" and "we have a regulator notification due" to less than a day. NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500.17 requires 72h notification of cybersecurity events and 24h notification of ransom payment. CERT-In's 2022 direction requires 6h reporting for in-scope incidents in India. AU SOCI requires 12h notification for significant cyber incidents at critical infrastructure entities. The IR playbook that does not bake these clocks in is non-compliant by clock arithmetic alone.
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  - **Ransomware continues to dominate the critical-infrastructure incident class.** Healthcare (Change Healthcare 2024, NHS via Synnovis 2024), energy (Colonial Pipeline 2021 echoes through 2026 OT-IT segmentation requirements), manufacturing, and water utilities take the volume. Cl0p's MOVEit campaign (2023) demonstrated mass-exploit incident shape; LockBit-style affiliate ecosystems persist post-takedown via fork brands. Initial-access brokers monetize valid-account compromise (T1078) faster than the credential-rotation cycle.
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- - **AI-class incidents are operational reality, not a thought experiment.** Three sub-classes show up in 2024-2026 incident telemetry: (1) **prompt-injection breach** — indirect prompt injection via web content, RAG corpus, email signatures, or document metadata achieves unauthorized action against enterprise AI assistants and agentic systems (see `ai-attack-surface`, `rag-pipeline-security`); (2) **model exfiltration** (AML.T0017) — adversary extracts model weights, training data, or system prompts via inference-side attacks (membership inference, training-data extraction, prompt leaking); (3) **AI-API as C2 channel** (AML.T0096) — SesameOp-pattern operations where the adversary uses legitimate AI provider APIs (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) as a covert command-and-control channel, blending into legitimate enterprise AI usage. Detection coverage for these classes lags conventional incident classes by 12-24 months in most enterprise SOC stacks.
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+ - **AI-class incidents are operational reality, not a thought experiment.** Three sub-classes show up in 2024-2026 incident telemetry: (1) **prompt-injection breach** — indirect prompt injection via web content, RAG corpus, email signatures, or document metadata achieves unauthorized action against enterprise AI assistants and agentic systems (see `ai-attack-surface`, `rag-pipeline-security`); (2) **model exfiltration** (AML.T0024) — adversary extracts model weights, training data, or system prompts via inference-side attacks (membership inference, training-data extraction, prompt leaking); (3) **AI-API as C2 channel** (AML.T0096) — SesameOp-pattern operations where the adversary uses legitimate AI provider APIs (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) as a covert command-and-control channel, blending into legitimate enterprise AI usage. Detection coverage for these classes lags conventional incident classes by 12-24 months in most enterprise SOC stacks.
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  - **AI-generated code is a new supply-chain incident vector.** GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline produce code that ships to production without the human-author guarantee SLSA Level 3 assumes. Compromise of an AI coding assistant's training data, system prompt, or runtime pipeline (the IDE plugin, the MCP server, the model endpoint) creates a class of supply-chain incident where the artifact in the SBOM has no human author to interview. The Anthropic / OpenAI / Microsoft / Google AI bug-bounty programs are the upstream pipeline; the downstream incident response is largely undocumented at most orgs.
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  - **Identity is the perimeter, and identity compromise is the dominant initial-access vector.** Snowflake 2024 (credentials harvested from infostealers used to authenticate to multi-tenant cloud without MFA), Microsoft Midnight Blizzard 2024 (legacy non-production tenant compromised via password-spray), and the broader infostealer market collectively make T1078 (Valid Accounts) the most common precursor to subsequent stages.
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  - **Cloud-ephemeral evidence preservation is the new hard problem.** When the compromised workload is a serverless function (Lambda, Cloud Run, Azure Functions) that scaled to zero before triage starts, or a Kubernetes pod that the scheduler killed and replaced, the chain of custody assumed by NIST 800-86 (Guide to Integrating Forensic Techniques into Incident Response) breaks. Memory, ephemeral disk, and stdout are gone. The mid-2026 fix is pre-incident: continuous forensic-grade telemetry shipping (process trees, syscall traces, network flows, container layer diffs) to an external store before the workload terminates. Most orgs have not configured this; their first incident in an ephemeral environment becomes their lessons-learned moment.
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  | ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 | Information security incident management — Principles and process | Process model: plan & prepare → detect & report → assess & decide → respond → learn lessons. | Process-shaped, not playbook-shaped. No AI-class sub-types. No regulator-clock matrix. Conformance does not imply playbook completeness. |
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  | ISO/IEC 27035-2:2023 | Guidelines to plan and prepare for incident response | Planning, team structure, communication. | Same process orientation. Mentions "external reporting obligations" without operationalizing EU CRA / NIS2 / AI Act / NYDFS clocks. |
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  | NIST SP 800-53 rev 5 | IR-4 Incident Handling; IR-5 Incident Monitoring; IR-6 Incident Reporting; IR-8 Incident Response Plan | Method-neutral control objectives. | Per `framework-control-gaps.json` NIST-800-53-AC-2: AC-2 (Account Management) does not require AI-agent identity lifecycle management; identity-compromise (T1078) detection feeds IR but the underlying control gap leaves AI-agent service accounts under-instrumented. IR-4 says "implement an incident handling capability" without specifying AI-class handling. |
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  | **T1078** | Valid Accounts | Identity compromise as initial access | Identification: anomalous-sign-in UEBA, impossible-travel, MFA-fatigue patterns. Containment: account disable + session revocation + re-authentication for affected blast radius. Eradication: credential rotation, token revocation, OAuth-grant audit, AI-agent service-account rotation. Recovery: re-issue under zero-trust posture. Lessons: identity-control gap analysis. | Dominant initial-access vector mid-2026; coverage strong for human accounts, weak for AI-agent / service-account / OAuth-app identities. |
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