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Orca Security

Cloud security vendor whose agentless platform scans cloud accounts and workloads to build an asset inventory and rank the risks it finds.

Known aliases

  • Orca
  • orca.security
  • Orca Security research team

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Orca's 90% query cost cut is measured against a prompt holding 900-plus Sonar models

Orca Security cut query cost 90%, input tokens 93% and latency 75% in Discovery AI, its natural-language agent for Sonar queries on Amazon Bedrock. The baseline was a one-prompt proof of concept, so the savings transfer only to teams that start from one.

Publishers:aws.amazon.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption35
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence60
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Checkmarx finds malicious npm package function-flag still installable after 37,000 downloads

Checkmarx says function-flag, malicious since July 2025 and downloaded more than 37,000 times, is still on npm with no advisory flagging it. Advisory-based scanners have nothing to match, so finding it means checking lockfiles for the campaign's eight names.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 43%
Operator
Operator 50%
Investor
Investor 7%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption20
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence68
securityConfirmed5 publishers

WordPress patched a comment flaw that uses an admin's session to plant a web shell

CVE-2026-93485 was fixed on September 17 in WordPress 7.1.1. An anonymous comment plants a script, an administrator opens the page, and the script uploads a plugin carrying a web shell. Affected versions go back to 4.7.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 29%
Operator
Operator 64%
Investor
Investor 7%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives45
Confidence58
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Two loops, one blocklist bypass: Elementor Pro's upload field becomes unauthenticated RCE

CVE-2026-32475 carries a CVSS of 9.0 and needs nothing more than a published form with a file upload field. Patchstack says version 4.2.2 fixes it.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 34%
Operator
Operator 59%
Investor
Investor 7%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives55
Confidence68
productOne report1 publisher

One unauthenticated GET request inflates install counts on an AI agent skills marketplace

Orca Security found four abuse paths in one of the biggest AI agent skills marketplaces. The install counter accepts unauthenticated requests, and the security audit only reruns once a skill gets popular.

Publishers:orca.security

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption22
Hype gap+18
Incentives65
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Orca's Service Graph connector claims the cloud half of the ServiceNow CMDB

A security scanner now owns the create, update and retire lifecycle for cloud configuration items. That moves the accuracy of IT's record of record onto whatever the scanner can reach.

Publishers:orca.security

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption15
Hype gap+40
Incentives85
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

ECB orders every significant bank to file an AI cyber action plan by 31 October

Claudia Buch's 7 July letter gives supervised institutions 116 days to produce named owners, resourcing and timelines, on the ECB's stated view that AI has changed the speed of cyber risk rather than its substance.

Publishers:orca.security

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives82
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

OWASP now names seventeen agentic threats, and the control unit is the whole run

Version 1.1 of the Agentic Security Initiative's guide enumerates T1 through T17, up from fifteen. Cite the version, and stop reviewing agents one tool call at a time.

Publishers:orca.security

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives74
Confidence48