CrowdStrike SafeMind: When the Best Offense Builds the Best Defense

CrowdStrike launched Agents of Chaos, a $100,000 online game and AI red teaming competition in which players manipulate real AI agents using prompt injection and other adversarial techniques.

CrowdStrike cataloged 21 command obfuscation methods on VMware ESX's BusyBox shell—ciphers, keyed payloads, alternative encodings—and built CQL detections; ESX logs capture commands pre-expansion.

Learn about the anatomy of the SANDWORM_MODE infection chain mapped against the components of a modern AI CI/CD pipeline.

CrowdStrike and Intel introduced a Falcon Data Security capability that classifies sensitive data with language models running on-device on Intel NPUs, avoiding cloud latency and privacy concerns.

CrowdStrike on Microsoft's record September 2026 Patch Tuesday: 972 CVEs, double August, two exploited zero-days, 113 Criticals and 12 zero-click Office bugs; plus a Defender PoC, ShieldCrash.

CrowdStrike launches an Agentic Identity Provider in Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, giving every AI agent a trusted identity and continuously adaptive access instead of standing privileges.