AI can compress SOC investigations, but autonomous verdicts without human validation create new risks. Here's why Critical Start builds AI-accelerated, human-validated — not AI-autonomous.

A malicious dependency smuggled into trusted axios packages, signed with a legitimate maintainer's credentials — see how Critical Start's SOC caught the cross-platform C2 dropper and isolated the host in 3 minutes.

A fake CAPTCHA, a double-encoded PowerShell command, and payload data hidden in image pixels — see how Critical Start's SOC unraveled a ClickFix social-engineering attack and contained it in 7 minutes.

A crafted JNDI lookup string turned an internet-facing DMZ server into a cryptominer's launchpad — until Critical Start's SOC caught a custom detection rule firing, decoded the attacker's playbook, and shut it down in 12 minutes.

The CRITICALSTART® Cyber Research Unit is tracking TeamPCP, a financially motivated threat actor behind a sustained software supply chain campaign that has compromised Aqua Security Trivy, Checkmarx KICS, LiteLLM, the TanStack ecosystem, and GitHub's own internal repositories — now confirmed by FBI FLASH reporting. This advisory consolidates 17 sources into prioritized detection, mitigation, and response guidance.

Every MDR vendor claims AI speed — Critical Start's SOC AI pairs five purpose-built agents with mandatory human validation, contractual per-alert SLAs, and full audit trails on every decision.