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Blue Team

175 articles

When the Weapon Learns: How Nation-States Weaponized AI Across the Full Attack Chain

Google GTIG's May 2026 report documents a turning point: state actors now use AI to write zero-day exploits, build self-navigating backdoors, and poison the AI supply chain itself.

Updated 19 September 2026
Threat Intelligence Malware Analysis Red Team

Canary Tokens: Deployment, Alert Triage and Detection Limits

Deploy canary tokens in repositories, documents and cloud workflows. Understand what triggers an alert, what can be missed, and how to investigate benign activity.

Updated 19 September 2026
Blue Team Detection Threat Hunting

Gemini Hacked Real Companies During Testing: Where AI Containment Failed

Google's Gemini testing incidents expose the gap between an agent's assigned task and its actual reach. A technical guide to scope, egress controls, detection, and response.

19 September 2026
AI Security Red Team Blue Team

Julius Kivimäki and Vastaamo: When Patient Data Became the Ransom

The Vastaamo case was not just a Finnish hacker story. It showed how exposed databases, weak governance, poor logging, and delayed breach response can turn clinical records into direct extortion against patients.

Updated 19 September 2026
Data Breach Healthcare Security Privacy

Phishing Under the Microscope: Analyzing a Real Attack Email Step by Step

We tear apart a realistic phishing email using Security Decoder — headers, URLs, JWT tokens, and obfuscated JavaScript — and show exactly what each red flag means.

Updated 19 September 2026
Cybersecurity Phishing Blue Team

Shai-Hulud One Year Later: From Stolen Tokens to Compromised CI Trust

A year of Shai-Hulud attacks shows where npm defenses stop: compromised CI jobs can abuse legitimate publishing identities. Here is where to break the chain.

19 September 2026
Supply Chain GitHub Actions Blue Team

Trump Died of Rabies — And What That Means for Your Package Manager

When DuckDuckGo's AI killed Trump with rabies, the world laughed. When AI coding assistants invent package names, attackers register them. Nobody's laughing then.

Updated 19 September 2026
Supply Chain AI Security Malware

UEFI Bootkits vs Firmware Implants: Persistence and Detection

Distinguish EFI partition bootkits from SPI flash implants. Learn what disk replacement removes, which evidence to collect, and how Secure Boot updates help.

Updated 19 September 2026
Malware Analysis Firmware Security Threat Intelligence

1.8 Million Android Apps Scanned for Secrets: Treat Every APK as Public

Anthropic says a suspected ShinyHunters affiliate scanned 1.8 million Android APKs for hardcoded secrets. The defensive lesson is architectural: anything shipped to a phone must be treated as recoverable.

18 September 2026
Mobile Security Android Application Security

Sality Botnet Disruption: How Defenders Turned a P2P Network Against Itself

Inside the 2026 Sality disruption: peer-to-peer trust failures, the limits of botnet takedowns, and practical detection and recovery for Windows defenders.

18 September 2026
Malware Analysis Threat Intelligence Network Security

When Malware Rebuilds Itself: Defending Against GTG-20006's AI Evasion Loop

Anthropic observed a Russian-nexus espionage operator using AI workflows to modify and redeploy malware after detection. Hashes still help, but identity, behavior, network, and execution controls must carry the defense.

17 September 2026
Threat Intelligence Nation-State AI Security

Microsoft's 974-CVE Patch Tuesday: Fix the Exploited Paths, Not the Headline

Microsoft's September 2026 release lists 974 Microsoft CVEs, including two Windows privilege-escalation flaws in CISA KEV. A known RDS regression makes staged, risk-based deployment more important—not less urgent.

16 September 2026
Vulnerability Management Microsoft Windows

GitLab CVE-2026-85706: Patch the File Read, Then Rotate What It Exposed

CISA lists GitLab CVE-2026-85706 as exploited. Self-managed administrators must upgrade to 19.3.2, 19.2.6, or 19.1.8 or later, hunt the repository commits API, and treat readable secrets as potentially compromised.

14 September 2026
Vulnerability GitLab DevSecOps

Nightmare Eclipse in September 2026: Five New PoCs Test Windows' Trust Boundaries

Nightmare Eclipse's latest Windows PoCs target Defender, CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, Avast, and NVIDIA. What is confirmed, what is not, and how to respond.

13 September 2026
Windows Vulnerability Endpoint Security

Week 37 Security Priorities: Revoke Trust Before You Chase Malware

Berlin's published data, exploited SonicWall gateways, a Chrome zero-day, AI-accelerated intrusion, payment-system abuse, and PostGREShell all point to the same task: identify and revoke inherited trust.

13 September 2026
Weekly Roundup Threat Intelligence Vulnerability Management

PostGREShell CVE-2026-6471: When Replication Privilege Becomes Server Code Execution

CVE-2026-6471 lets a PostgreSQL role with REPLICATION privilege load an arbitrary logical-decoding plugin. The official severity is high, the prerequisites matter, and supported releases are fixed.

12 September 2026
Vulnerability Database Security Linux Security

BREEZE COMET Did Not Steal Card Numbers. It Manipulated the Payment System

Google and Mandiant say BREEZE COMET compromises the identities, certificates, applications, and networks authorized to move money through Brazil's payment systems.

11 September 2026
Threat Intelligence Financial Security Identity Security

AI Compressed an Enterprise Intrusion Into Ten Hours. Speed Was the Weapon

Unit 42 reports that a human attacker used AI agents to move from an exposed API to cloud, identity, source code, secrets, and CI/CD control in under ten hours. The evidence shows acceleration, not a magical new exploit.

10 September 2026
AI Security Incident Response Cloud Security

Chrome CVE-2026-85046: Updating Is Easy. Proving Every Browser Updated Is Not

Google says an exploit for CVE-2026-85046 exists in the wild. Defenders need to deploy Chrome 152.0.7977.82 or .83 and verify the running version across managed and unmanaged endpoints.

9 September 2026
Vulnerability Browser Security Zero-Day

SonicWall SMA1000 Zero-Day Chain: Patch It, Then Assume It Was Breached

CVE-2026-83548 and CVE-2026-83549 are being exploited against SonicWall SMA1000 appliances. Patching closes the flaws, but exposed gateways still need compromise assessment and credential recovery.

8 September 2026
Vulnerability Network Security Zero-Day

Rhysida Published Berlin's Stolen Data. The Incident Is Only Starting

Berlin's stolen government data has been released after an extortion deadline expired. The next phase is credential rotation, exposure analysis, victim notification, and long-term fraud monitoring.

7 September 2026
Data Breach Incident Response Ransomware

Taalas HC1 Etches Llama Into Silicon. How Do You Patch a Model Made of Metal?

Taalas' HC1 hardcodes Llama 3.1 8B into silicon for extraordinary inference speed. The same design turns model updates, provenance, and incident response into hardware lifecycle problems.

5 September 2026
AI Security Supply Chain Infrastructure

JFrog Artifactory CVEs: Your Artifact Repository Is a Build Boundary

CISA KEV activity and a fresh critical Artifactory authentication bypass show why package repositories need incident-grade monitoring, not just routine patching.

4 September 2026
Supply Chain DevSecOps Vulnerability Management

ownCloud CVE-2023-49105: The File Server Bug That Waited Three Years

CISA added an old ownCloud WebDAV authentication bypass to KEV after reported exploitation against Philippine research and defense-linked targets. The lesson is not novelty. It is exposed file infrastructure.

3 September 2026
Vulnerability Management Threat Intelligence Blue Team

Berlin's Landesnetz Cyberattack: Segmentation Worked, Then the Business Broke

Berlin isolated two state ministries after a cyberattack on the Landesnetz. The incident is a practical lesson in public-sector segmentation, crisis communications, and data-theft triage.

2 September 2026
Incident Response Blue Team Public Sector

PaperCut CVE-2026-81578 and 82078: The Print Server Became an RCE Pivot

PaperCut NG/MF has an actively exploited authentication-bypass and unsafe class-loading chain. Patch Release 2 matters, but exposed servers also need immediate compromise triage.

1 September 2026
Vulnerability Threat Intelligence Blue Team

TeamPCP Arrests in Australia: The Supply Chain Lesson Is Bigger Than Two Suspects

Australian and U.S. authorities have charged alleged TeamPCP operators after a software supply chain campaign that authorities say hit more than 1,000 organizations. The defensive lesson is about tokens, publishing rights, and update speed.

29 August 2026
Threat Intelligence Supply Chain Developer Security

Zimbra CVE-2026-73570: Patch the Mail Server, Then Prove It Wasn't Already Owned

Attackers are exploiting a Zimbra SNMP command injection flaw after a fixed version was already available. The real work is not only patching, but compromise triage.

25 August 2026
Email Security Vulnerability Management Incident Response

KerberLoss and ResetNightmare: Kerberos Can Fail Without Stealing a Ticket

Two Active Directory logic flaws presented at Black Hat show how SPN handling and password reset behavior can enable downgrade, disruption, and domain takeover.

23 August 2026
Active Directory Kerberos Identity Security

The File That Blinds the Scanner: ClamAV's Parser Bugs Are a Security-Control Problem

Seven ClamAV parser vulnerabilities can crash scanning processes, and Cisco products inherit the exposure. Defenders need to verify scanner health, not only malware verdicts.

22 August 2026
Vulnerability Management Endpoint Security Detection Engineering

CVE-2026-65400: When macOS Screen Sharing Becomes Remote Root

Attackers are exploiting a macOS Screen Sharing authentication flaw against exposed Macs. Patch, remove VNC exposure, and investigate before treating it as a routine update.

20 August 2026
macOS Security Vulnerability Management Incident Response

Why Managed File Transfer Tools Keep Becoming Mass-Breach Machines

MOVEit, GoAnywhere, Cleo, Accellion — the same extortion playbook keeps working on enterprise file-transfer software. Here's the structural reason why, and what to do about it.

19 August 2026
Blue Team Data Breach Supply Chain

Evil Twin Access Points: The Wi-Fi Network That Isn't What It Claims to Be

Evil twin access points clone trusted Wi-Fi networks to intercept traffic and steal credentials. Here's how the attack works, why WPA3 doesn't fully stop it, and how to detect and defend against it.

17 August 2026
Wireless Security Red Team Blue Team

Initial Access Brokers: The Middlemen Selling Your Network to Ransomware Gangs

IABs breach networks and sell the keys on forums like Exploit and XSS for a few hundred to over $100,000. Here's how the market prices, verifies, and moves access.

15 August 2026
Threat Intelligence Ransomware Cybercrime

vCenter CVE-2026-59309 and 59310: Patch the Control Plane

Two critical vCenter flaws threaten authentication and code execution. Use this practical plan to patch, isolate, detect, and recover safely.

14 August 2026
VMware Virtualization Security Vulnerability Management

Tomcat CVE-2026-34486: The Broken Encryption Fix

An incomplete Tomcat fix allowed EncryptInterceptor bypass and is now exploited. Learn which exact versions are exposed and how to contain clusters.

13 August 2026
Apache Tomcat Vulnerability Management Java Security

KindaRails2Shell: When an Image Upload Reads Your Secrets

CVE-2026-66066 turns untrusted image uploads into file reads in Rails Active Storage. Check exposure, patch correctly, and rotate what leaked.

12 August 2026
Web Security Ruby on Rails Application Security

Langflow CVE-2026-9198: Auto-Login Was a Server Shell

Default Langflow deployments exposed a two-step path from no account to remote code execution. Learn how to patch, isolate, hunt, and rotate secrets.

11 August 2026
AI Security Vulnerability Management Application Security

LoadMaster CVE-2026-8037: The Load Balancer Became the Way In

An unauthenticated command-injection flaw turned a perimeter appliance into an entry point. Here is how to patch, contain, hunt, and recover.

10 August 2026
Vulnerability Management Network Security Incident Response

Week 32 Security Roundup: The Management Plane Is the Target

TeamCity, N-central, and Cisco FMC put the same lesson in three different packages: attackers want the systems that already control everything else.

8 August 2026
Weekly Roundup Threat Intelligence Vulnerability Management

NGINX's Configuration-Dependent Vulnerabilities: Why Version Scanning Is Not Enough

NGINX 1.30.4 and 1.31.3 fixed three new memory-safety flaws, but exposure depends on map, slice, SSI, proxy, and buffering configuration. Here is how to audit the real path.

6 August 2026
Web Security Vulnerability Management Linux Security

Your UniFi Console Is a Server: What Security Bulletin 066 Actually Requires

Ubiquiti disclosed 25 vulnerabilities across UniFi applications and devices. The critical issue is not the headline CVSS score, but which management services an attacker can reach.

5 August 2026
Network Security IoT Security Vulnerability Management

One Email Preview Is Enough: Russia's Half-Click Webmail Exploits

Russian-aligned espionage groups exploited stored XSS flaws in Zimbra, SOGo, Roundcube, MDaemon, and Kerio. Opening a message was enough to lose credentials, email, and persistent access.

4 August 2026
Email Security Threat Intelligence Web Security

CVE-2026-48282: A Perfect 10 in Adobe ColdFusion, Exploited Within Two Hours

A CVSS 10.0 path traversal in Adobe ColdFusion's Remote Development Services lets unauthenticated attackers write a webshell straight into the web root. Attackers were probing it before most admins finished reading the advisory.

31 July 2026
Vulnerability Management CVE Web Application Security

AI Voice Cloning: The $25.6 Million Phone Call That Wasn't Real

A finance employee wired $25.6 million after a video call with the CFO and colleagues — all AI-generated deepfakes. Short public audio clips can now seed convincing voice clones. Here's how vishing changed and what actually stops it.

30 July 2026
Social Engineering Deepfake Blue Team

The KDDI Breach: One Vulnerable Component, Six ISPs, 12 Million Exposed Inboxes

A zero-day in unnamed third-party software let attackers sit inside KDDI's shared ISP email platform for a month, exposing email addresses and passwords used by @nifty, BIGLOBE, J:COM, and three other providers. Here's what's confirmed and what isn't.

29 July 2026
Data Breach Third-Party Risk Telecom

ICS/OT Security Basics: Why Your Office Network Rules Don't Apply to a PLC

A wiper attack bricked remote terminal units across 30 Polish energy sites. An Iranian APT tampered with US water utility PLCs using legitimate engineering software. Here's the OT security model IT teams keep getting wrong.

28 July 2026
ICS OT Security Critical Infrastructure

DNS Tunneling: The C2 Channel Hiding in the One Protocol You Can't Block

SUNBURST used it. DNSMessenger lived inside it. Decoy Dog delivered payloads through it. DNS tunneling turns routine name resolution into a covert command channel — here's how it works and how to catch it.

26 July 2026
Network Security Blue Team C2

JADEPUFFER: Inside the First Documented Agentic Ransomware Attack

Sysdig caught an LLM agent breaking into a Langflow server, pivoting to a production database, and extorting the victim — with no human at the keyboard between steps. Here's what actually happened, and what's still unproven.

25 July 2026
AI Security Ransomware Threat Intelligence

STRIDE Threat Modeling: A Practical Guide Nobody Needs a Tool to Start

STRIDE has been Microsoft's threat modeling framework since 1999 and still works. Here's how to run a real session with a whiteboard, a data flow diagram, and 30 minutes — no expensive tooling required.

24 July 2026
AppSec DevSecOps Blue Team

FortiBleed's Ransomware Pipeline: What SOCRadar's INC Ransom and Lynx Attribution Actually Proves

SOCRadar says the FortiBleed credential campaign feeds directly into INC Ransom and Lynx ransomware operations, with 430,000 FortiGate devices targeted. Here's what's confirmed, what's one vendor's assessment, and what it means for your firewall.

23 July 2026
Fortinet Ransomware Network Security

SIM Swapping: How Attackers Steal Your Phone Number to Steal Everything Else

SIM swapping redirects SMS and voice verification to an attacker-controlled device. Here's how number-porting fraud works, why SMS MFA fails, and what actually stops it.

22 July 2026
Social Engineering Identity Blue Team

Exploited Before the PoC Existed: CVE-2026-46817 in Oracle Payments

A critical, unauthenticated flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite's Payments module was hit in the wild on June 27, 2026 — six weeks after the patch, with no public exploit code anywhere. Here's what's confirmed, what's still speculation, and how to check if you're exposed.

21 July 2026
ERP Security Vulnerability Management Blue Team

Dependency Confusion: Your Internal Package Name Is a Public Attack Surface

Publish a package with the same name as a company's private one, give it a higher version number, and package managers will happily install the attacker's code instead. Here's how it still works in 2026.

20 July 2026
Supply Chain DevSecOps Blue Team

CVE-2026-48558: A Perfect 10 in SimpleHelp Opens the Door for Djinn Stealer

An unsigned OIDC token is all it takes to become a fully authenticated technician on a SimpleHelp RMM server. Attackers are already using that shortcut to push a cross-platform infostealer built for the AI era.

19 July 2026
Vulnerability Threat Intelligence RMM

Business Email Compromise: The $3 Billion Scam With No Malware

BEC caused $3.05 billion in reported US losses in 2025 alone — without a single exploit. Here's the full attack chain from mailbox compromise to wire fraud, and the controls that actually stop it.

18 July 2026
Phishing Blue Team Email Security

CVE-2026-58644: The SharePoint Patch That Arrived With an Incident-Response Deadline

CISA says attackers are exploiting a critical SharePoint deserialization flaw. Patching closes the bug, but exposed servers also need a focused compromise assessment.

17 July 2026
Cybersecurity Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability

Cloud Concentration Risk: A Single Point of Failure

Recent AWS and Cloudflare disruptions show how shared cloud, identity, and network dependencies turn localized faults into widespread outages. Here is how to find and reduce that hidden blast radius.

16 July 2026
Cybersecurity Cloud Security Infrastructure

Forgotten Shims: How 11 Old Microsoft-Signed Files Break Secure Boot

ESET Research found 11 old UEFI shim bootloaders, all validly signed by Microsoft, that bypass Secure Boot on any system trusting Microsoft's third-party CA. CVE-2026-8863 and CVE-2026-10797 — no exploit chain required.

15 July 2026
Firmware Security Vulnerability CVE

Grok Build Uploaded Entire Git Repositories: What the Wire Capture Proved

A wire-level analysis found Grok Build 0.2.93 uploading tracked source code and full Git history independently of what the agent read. Here is what was proven, what changed, and how developers should respond.

14 July 2026
AI Security Developer Security Data Privacy

Prompt Injection in 2026: From Research Toy to Real CVEs, Agent Hijacking, and Zero-Click Exfiltration

CVE-2025-32711 (EchoLeak) exfiltrated M365 data with zero user interaction. The Anthropic MCP server had three exploitable injection CVEs. OpenAI says AI browsers may never be fully fixed. Here's the full attack chain — and how to detect it.

Updated 8 July 2026
AI Security Red Team Blue Team

The VPN Was Never the Problem: How a Windows Telemetry ID Unmasked a Scattered Spider Suspect

A 19-year-old allegedly hid behind a VPN and ngrok during an $8M jewelry-retailer extortion case. Windows' Global Device Identifier (GDID) gave investigators a device-level pivot.

6 July 2026
Cybersecurity Red Team Blue Team

AI-Built Browser Ransomware Abuses Chrome File Access

Check Point analyzed a DeepSeek-attributed ransomware sample that should not work from a browser tab. Most of it was fiction — except for one detail that mapped to a real Chromium API. No malware install required.

5 July 2026
Ransomware AI Security Web Security

Minimum Package Age: The Supply Chain Control That Buys Defenders Time

Fast takedowns do not protect systems that auto-install malicious packages or extensions in the first minutes after release. Minimum package age turns time into a practical supply chain defense.

5 July 2026
Supply Chain Blue Team DevSecOps

The Watchdog Got Bitten: Pegasus Spyware Hit the EU Committee Investigating It

A member of the EU committee investigating Pegasus abuse was hacked with Pegasus himself. Here is how forensic researchers proved it — and how to run the same detection process yourself.

4 July 2026
Spyware Mobile Security Digital Forensics

Your Headphones Have Firmware: FOTA Is the IoT Attack Surface Nobody Patches

Bluetooth earbuds, speakers, and IoT devices now ship with firmware update paths, microphones, pairing protocols, and cloud-adjacent features. That does not make every headset a network foothold, but it does make the accessory worth threat-modeling.

3 July 2026
IoT Security Firmware Security Bluetooth Security

RFC 10008: The New HTTP QUERY Method and the Attack Surface Still Catching Up

IETF published RFC 10008 in June 2026, standardizing the HTTP QUERY method. Here is where WAFs, caches, CORS handling, and CSRF assumptions need review.

3 July 2026
Web Security Red Team Blue Team

IPV6_FRAG_ESCAPE: The Linux Container Escape Your CVE Scanner May Miss

IPV6_FRAG_ESCAPE is a Linux kernel 6.12 privilege escalation with public PoC code, no CVE at disclosure time, and a practical path from container user to host root.

3 July 2026
Linux Vulnerability Kernel

ChocoPoC: The Exploit You Cloned Is the Attack

ChocoPoC hides a remote access trojan inside trojanized CVE proof-of-concept repositories on GitHub, using a malicious PyPI dependency chain to compromise the researchers who clone them.

2 July 2026
Supply Chain Red Team Malware

One HTTP Header, Full Admin Access: Gitea's June 2026 Security Release Explained

Gitea 1.26.3 and 1.26.4 addressed a dense security release window, including a 9.8 CRITICAL auth bypass exploitable with a single HTTP header. Here's what broke and how to fix it.

Updated 2 July 2026
Web Security Cybersecurity Hardening

The Clean Repo Trap: AI Coding Agents and the Trust Boundary Problem

A 0DIN proof of concept against Claude Code demonstrates how a clean-looking repository can lead to runtime command execution. The structural risk behind the attack applies to any AI coding agent with shell access.

30 June 2026
AI Security Supply Chain Developer Security

Your Favicon Is Leaking Your Entire Infrastructure

A single 16x16 icon file can expose hundreds of servers, bypass WAF protections, and map your entire attack surface — here's how attackers use favicon hashing with Shodan, and how defenders can stop it.

29 June 2026
Red Team Blue Team OSINT

pedit COW & DirtyClone: Two New Linux Root Exploits That Bypass On-Disk Integrity Checks

CVE-2026-46331 and CVE-2026-43503 both corrupt the Linux page cache via network subsystems to grant root — bypassing file integrity tools like AIDE and Tripwire without touching files on disk.

27 June 2026
Linux Vulnerability Privilege Escalation

AI Cyber Sovereignty: What Happens When Your Best Defender Can Be Switched Off?

Frontier cyber AI is becoming controlled infrastructure. The security risk is not only that attackers get stronger models, but that defenders become dependent on capabilities a vendor or government can withdraw.

25 June 2026
AI Security Threat Intelligence Blue Team

Cordyceps and GitHub Actions: When CI/CD Trust Boundaries Become the Supply Chain Attack

Novee's Cordyceps research is a reminder that GitHub Actions workflows are executable attack surface, not harmless YAML. Here is how to audit the trust boundary before an outside pull request borrows maintainer authority.

25 June 2026
Supply Chain GitHub Actions CI/CD

FortiBleed: Treat Exposed FortiGate Credentials as an Incident, Not a Patch Ticket

A reported FortiGate credential-harvesting campaign is a reminder that patched edge appliances can still be compromised. Here is how to verify exposure, contain access, and hunt for follow-on activity.

24 June 2026
Cybersecurity Network Security Incident Response

Operation Endgame Hits SocGholish: FakeUpdates Takedown

Operation Endgame's June 2026 action against SocGholish shows why fake browser updates, compromised WordPress sites, and criminal loader infrastructure still matter to defenders.

Updated 24 June 2026
Cybercrime Threat Intelligence Malware

Prinz Eugen Ransomware Encrypts Your Newest Files First

A new Go-based ransomware family prioritizes recently modified files, uses RDP and legitimate remote-management tooling, and leaves no ransom note on disk. Here's what to hunt and harden.

22 June 2026
Ransomware Threat Intelligence Incident Response

47-Day Certificates Will Make Every Website Look Like a Phishing Site

The CA/Browser Forum is cutting TLS certificate lifespans from 398 to 47 days by 2029 to reduce the value of stolen certificates. The fix creates a bigger target: the automation that now issues every certificate on the internet.

19 June 2026
Cybersecurity Web Security Red Team

QUIC and HTTP/3: The Browser Traffic Your Proxy May Not Be Seeing

QUIC and HTTP/3 can change the path browser traffic takes through enterprise controls. Here is why TCP-focused inspection can miss policy violations, how to test it, and what defenders should fix.

18 June 2026
Browser Security Cloud Security Blue Team

ShinyHunters Were Inside Two Weeks Before Oracle Noticed

A critical, unauthenticated RCE in Oracle PeopleSoft let ShinyHunters compromise universities and other organizations for weeks before Oracle's advisory caught up. Google notified 100+ potentially exposed organizations. The technical breakdown, IOCs, and what to hunt for.

17 June 2026
Threat Intelligence Vulnerability Zero-Day

Insider Threat in 2026: The Risk Is Not Who You Trust, But What They Can Reach

Insider threat is not only about malicious employees. It is about trusted access, forgotten accounts, stolen sessions, and the controls that decide how far one identity can go.

16 June 2026
Cybersecurity Blue Team Threat Detection

Pwnd Blaster: How a $280 Soundbar Becomes a Wireless BadUSB

A Bluetooth flaw in Creative's Sound Blaster Katana V2X lets anyone within 15 meters flash malicious firmware and turn the soundbar into a keystroke-injecting keyboard — no pairing required.

16 June 2026
Red Team Blue Team Vulnerability Research

When AI Insiders Walk Away: Google's Moral Compass Problem Is a User Trust Problem

A Google Android security director resigned over Pentagon AI work. The deeper question is what users should believe when people close to powerful AI systems start walking away.

15 June 2026
AI Security Cloud Security Governance

How Europol Is Catching Cybercriminals in 2026

Europol does not usually kick down the door. It makes cybercrime investigations cross-border, evidence-rich, and harder for offenders to escape.

12 June 2026
Cybercrime Threat Intelligence Ransomware

SaaS Hacking: The New Internal Network Attackers Already Use

Attackers no longer need malware on every endpoint. With one valid identity, token, or integration, they can move through Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub, and other SaaS platforms like an internal network.

12 June 2026
Cloud Security SaaS Security Identity Security

GreatXML: When a Setup File Unlocks BitLocker

GreatXML is a public BitLocker-bypass PoC claim involving WinRE, Defender Offline Scan state, and unattend.xml. The defensive lesson is bigger than one repository: recovery environments are security boundaries.

11 June 2026
Windows Vulnerability BitLocker

RoguePlanet: Nightmare Eclipse's New Windows Defender LPE PoC After the June 2026 Patch

RoguePlanet is the latest public Nightmare Eclipse proof-of-concept targeting Microsoft Defender. The code points to a race condition that turns Defender cleanup behavior into SYSTEM execution.

10 June 2026
Windows Vulnerability Zero-Day

N-days Are Becoming N-hours

Anthropic's June 2026 N-day research shows how frontier models can turn public patches into working exploits in hours. Here's what defenders should change now.

9 June 2026
AI Security Vulnerability Management Blue Team

Post-Quantum Security: Who Is Ready?

Some vendors have already deployed post-quantum protections. Most enterprises have not. Here is who is moving first, where the gaps remain, and what security teams should do now.

5 June 2026
Cryptography Cybersecurity Cloud Security

You Are Now the Minority: Bots Have Officially Taken Over the Internet

2026 reports confirm bots now generate 53% of all internet traffic — the second year running that automated traffic outnumbers humans. Here's what that actually means.

4 June 2026
Cybersecurity Bots Web Security

The AI Evasion Lab

Sophos X-Ops uncovered a threat actor using Claude Opus 4.5 and Cursor IDE to build an automated, modular EDR evasion framework — 80 modules, 70+ techniques, tested against Sophos, CrowdStrike, and Defender.

3 June 2026
Malware Analysis Red Team Blue Team

Why Finland and Japan Consistently Top Every Cybersecurity Metric

Finland and Japan lead global cybersecurity rankings across multiple independent measures. The explanation is not primarily technical — it is socioeconomic.

3 June 2026
Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Blue Team

OAuth Consent Phishing in 2026: MFA Stops Password Theft, Not Bad App Grants

Attackers do not always need your password. A single OAuth consent grant can give a malicious or compromised app durable access to mail, files, calendars, and SaaS data.

30 May 2026
Cloud Security Identity Security Phishing

AI Bug Hunting in Browsers: Discovery Is Becoming the Easy Part

Mozilla used Claude Mythos Preview to identify and fix 271 Firefox security bugs, while Chrome shipped a separate 151-fix security update. The lesson is not that AI replaces security teams. It is that patching, triage, and verification are becoming the bottleneck.

29 May 2026
AI Security Cybersecurity Vulnerability Research

Poisoned AI: How Hugging Face Became a Malware Distribution Platform

A fake OpenAI repo hit #1 trending on Hugging Face with 244K downloads in 18 hours. Here's every attack vector targeting AI model repositories — and how to defend against them.

29 May 2026
Supply Chain AI Security Malware Analysis

The IT Guy Who Wasn't: How Attackers Walk Through Your Front Door

Physical social engineering is back — and the attacker doesn't have to be an IT guy. Learn how anyone with the right uniform and pretext can walk through your front door, and how organizations can fight back.

27 May 2026
Social Engineering Physical Security Red Team

Quasar Linux QLNX: A Developer Workstation RAT Built for Supply Chain Access

Trend Micro documented QLNX, a Linux RAT that combines credential harvesting, LD_PRELOAD persistence, PAM backdoors, and rootkit behavior. The real risk is not one infected host - it is the supply chain access behind it.

26 May 2026
Linux Supply Chain Malware

GitHub Finally Puts a Human in the Loop: npm Staged Publishing Explained

npm packages no longer publish instantly. GitHub's staged publishing forces a 2FA-gated human approval before any version hits the registry — here's what it means and how to enable it.

25 May 2026
Supply Chain Blue Team DevSecOps

Trusted Email Is the New Phishing Infrastructure

Scammers are abusing legitimate notification systems from Microsoft, Google, PayPal, Docusign, and other trusted platforms. The message can pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC because the platform really sent it.

23 May 2026
Phishing Cloud Security Threat Analysis

Verizon DBIR 2026: The Remediation Paradox

Verizon's 2026 DBIR confirms vulnerability exploitation as the #1 breach vector for the first time in 19 years — while remediation rates dropped and patch times increased. Here's what the data actually says.

22 May 2026
Blue Team Vulnerability Management Threat Intelligence

SSH-keysign-pwn: The Nine-Year Linux Kernel Flaw

CVE-2026-46333 (ssh-keysign-pwn) is a nine-year-old Linux kernel race condition that lets an unprivileged local user steal SSH host keys and dump /etc/shadow. Root command execution is also possible on specific configurations.

21 May 2026
Linux Vulnerability Kernel

GitHub's VS Code Extension Breach: What We Know, What We Don't, and How to Defend

GitHub says an employee device was compromised through a poisoned third-party VS Code extension and internal repositories were exfiltrated. Here is the fact-checked breakdown for defenders.

Updated 21 May 2026
Cybersecurity Supply Chain Developer Security

YellowKey: The BitLocker Bypass Hidden in Windows Recovery

A researcher discovered a zero-day that bypasses BitLocker encryption on Windows 11 using a USB stick and the recovery environment — and suspects the component may be intentional. CVE-2026-45585, CVSS 6.8. Microsoft released an official mitigation on May 21, 2026.

Updated 21 May 2026
Windows Vulnerability Encryption

Your Firewall Just Became Their Foothold

CVE-2026-20182 (CVSS 10.0) and CVE-2026-0300 (CVSS 9.3) hit simultaneously — one owns your firewall, the other poisons your entire SD-WAN fabric.

18 May 2026
Cybersecurity Red Team Blue Team

DFIR 2026: Memory Forensics, Windows Artifacts, and Incident Response

Memory forensics, Windows event artifacts, and IR methodology — from initial alert to post-incident report. Tools, commands, and playbooks included.

Updated 18 May 2026
Blue Team Incident Response Digital Forensics

LOLBins in 2026: How Attackers Use Windows Against Itself

79% of attacks in 2024 used no malware. Certutil, mshta, rundll32 — execution, persistence, and evasion via Windows built-ins. Detection rules included.

Updated 18 May 2026
Red Team Blue Team Detection

Windows Attack Techniques 2026: BYOVD, ClickFix, and C2 over Cloud

BYOVD EDR evasion, ClickFix delivery, C2 over cloud services — how modern Windows attackers operate in 2026, and the detection logic to catch them.

Updated 18 May 2026
Red Team Blue Team Malware Analysis

SQL Injection 2026: Blind, Time-Based, ORM Bypass, and WAF Evasion

Still powering major breaches in 2026 — blind injection, time-based attacks, ORM bypasses, WAF evasion. Real payloads and detection queries.

Updated 18 May 2026
Web Security Red Team Blue Team

Ransomware Doesn't Need to Encrypt Anymore — And That's the Point

22% of ransomware incidents in 2026 involve no encryption at all. The threat model has shifted from disruption to silent exfiltration — and most defenses haven't caught up.

17 May 2026
Ransomware Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity

CVE-2026-42897: Exchange Server Zero-Day Executes JavaScript Through Your Inbox

Microsoft's on-prem Exchange Server has an actively exploited XSS zero-day (CVSS 8.1). A single crafted email in OWA triggers arbitrary JavaScript — here's how it works and how to stop it.

16 May 2026
Cybersecurity Web Security Blue Team

$10 Million Ransom, Four Days of Peace, and Then the Login Page Changed

ShinyHunters breached Canvas LMS, stole 275 million students' data, took the ransom — and attacked again four days later. Here's who they are and why arrests haven't stopped them.

15 May 2026
Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity Blue Team

Unmasking TeamPCP: The Supply Chain Saboteurs and the Trails They Left Behind

TeamPCP has compromised hundreds of open-source packages and stolen half a million credentials. But their OPSEC is leaking — and someone is already hunting them.

15 May 2026
Threat Intelligence Supply Chain Attribution

500 Microsoft CVEs Later — We're Still Measuring Security Wrong

Microsoft patched 500+ vulnerabilities in five months. Linux ecosystems patched even more. So which is more secure? That's the wrong question — here's the metric that actually matters.

13 May 2026
Vulnerability Management Blue Team Threat Intelligence

The Cache That Bites Back: GitHub Actions Cache Poisoning Attacks

How attackers turn GitHub Actions' shared build cache into a supply chain weapon — real cases, attack mechanics, detection logic, and mitigations.

12 May 2026
Supply Chain GitHub Actions Red Team

Dirty Frag & Copy Fail: Two New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Grant Root Privileges

Two new Linux kernel vulnerabilities — Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284/43500) and Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) — enable local privilege escalation to root on nearly all major distros. What users and admins need to know.

9 May 2026
Linux Vulnerability Privilege Escalation

CallPhantom: How 28 Fake Apps Collected Payments for Data That Never Existed

ESET uncovered CallPhantom — 28 Android apps with 7.3M downloads that sold fabricated call histories. A deep dive into the fraud mechanics, billing bypass, and how to protect yourself.

8 May 2026
Malware Analysis Threat Intelligence Mobile Security

AD Attack Chains: From Initial Access to Domain Admin

A complete purple team walkthrough of Active Directory attack chains — from initial foothold through Kerberoasting, DCSync, and Golden Tickets to full domain compromise, with detection rules for every technique.

7 May 2026
Active Directory Blue Team Cybersecurity

ADCS Abuse with Certipy: From Low-Priv User to Domain Admin via Certificate Services

Active Directory Certificate Services is installed in most enterprise networks — and almost always misconfigured. Here's how attackers exploit ESC1 through ESC8 with Certipy, and how to detect and stop them.

7 May 2026
Active Directory Red Team Blue Team

AI Agent Traps: Six Ways Attackers Manipulate Autonomous AI — With Real Examples

Google DeepMind published the first systematic taxonomy of AI agent manipulation techniques. Here's what each attack looks like in practice — and why most AI deployments are already vulnerable.

7 May 2026
AI Security Cybersecurity Red Team

AitM Phishing: How Attackers Bypass MFA and How to Stop Them

Adversary-in-the-Middle phishing silently proxies real login pages and steals session tokens — making MFA useless. Here's how it works and how to detect it.

7 May 2026
Phishing Red Team Blue Team

API Security in 2026: JWT Attacks, OAuth Abuse, and GraphQL Exploitation

APIs are the most exploited attack surface in 2026. Learn how attackers abuse JWT tokens, OAuth flows, and GraphQL endpoints — and how to stop them.

7 May 2026
Web Security Red Team Blue Team

Attack to Defend: Why the Best Security Professionals Think on Both Sides

The most dangerous defenders understand how attackers think. The best red teamers understand what defenders see. Here's why the divide between offense and defense is killing your security program.

7 May 2026
Red Team Blue Team Cybersecurity

AutoHotkey Malware Loaders: How Attackers Weaponize Automation Scripts

AutoHotkey isn't just for productivity scripts — attackers use it as a stealthy malware loader. Learn how AHK-based campaigns work and how to detect them.

7 May 2026
Malware Analysis Detection Red Team

AWS IAM Privilege Escalation to Data Exfil: The Full Attack Chain

How attackers escalate from a low-privilege AWS IAM credential to full S3 data theft — and the CloudTrail events, GuardDuty findings, and Sigma rules that expose them.

7 May 2026
Cloud Security Red Team Blue Team

What It Really Takes to Become a True SOC Professional

Discover the real skills, mindset, and strategies needed to become a genuine SOC professional—from technical mastery to standing out in job hunts.

7 May 2026
Blue Team Incident Response SIEM

Browser-in-the-Browser: The Phishing Attack That Fakes the Browser Itself

Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) attacks forge convincing browser popup windows using pure HTML and CSS — making phishing pages nearly impossible to spot by eye. Here's how it works and how to defend against it.

7 May 2026
Phishing Web Security Red Team

BYOVD: How Attackers Use Legitimate Drivers to Kill Your Security Tools

BYOVD (Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver) lets attackers reach the Windows kernel using signed, legitimate drivers — and then silently kill your EDR before ransomware drops.

7 May 2026
Red Team Blue Team Malware Analysis

The Build Is the Target: CI/CD Pipeline Attacks and How to Detect Them

Your CI/CD pipeline stores production credentials, runs code automatically, and trusts pull requests. Here's how attackers exploit that — and the detection logic to catch them.

7 May 2026
Red Team Blue Team Supply Chain

Claude Mythos: The AI That Rewrites the Rules of Cybersecurity — For Everyone

Anthropic built an AI that autonomously discovered a 27-year-old vulnerability in widely-used code. It can build working exploits from scratch. It's too dangerous to release publicly. Here's what that means for your bank, your government, your code — and the future of digital security.

7 May 2026
AI Security Cybersecurity Vulnerability Research

Cobalt Strike Detection & Hunting: A Defender's Playbook

How to detect Cobalt Strike beacons in your environment — network fingerprints, process injection patterns, Sigma rules, and practical hunting queries for blue teams.

7 May 2026
Blue Team Cobalt Strike Threat Hunting

CrackArmor: Nine AppArmor Flaws That Let Attackers Own the Kernel

Qualys TRU disclosed nine confused deputy vulnerabilities in Linux AppArmor — exposing 12.6 million servers to root escalation, KASLR bypass, and container isolation collapse. Technical deep dive and detection guide.

7 May 2026
Linux Kernel Security Red Team

Cybersecurity Careers: What the Job Actually Looks Like (Not the Movie Version)

A realistic guide to cybersecurity career paths in 2026 — from SOC analyst to GRC, threat intel, AppSec, cloud security, and DFIR. What each role actually does every day.

7 May 2026
Cybersecurity Career Blue Team

DCSync: How Attackers Steal Every Password in Your Domain — and How to Stop Them

DCSync abuses Active Directory replication to pull every password hash from a domain controller without touching it. Here's how the attack works, what it leaves in your logs, and how to build detections that catch it.

7 May 2026
Active Directory Red Team Blue Team

Entra ID Attacks in Practice: Device Code Phishing, PRT Theft, and Conditional Access Bypass

MFA is no longer enough to protect Microsoft Entra ID accounts. Attackers steal tokens, register their own devices, and bypass Conditional Access — without ever touching a password. Here's the full attack chain and how to detect it.

7 May 2026
Cloud Security Red Team Blue Team

GitHub Secrets Management Crisis: 65% of AI Companies Leaked Credentials

65% of Forbes AI 50 companies leaked secrets on GitHub with 94-day median remediation time. Blue team guide to detect, prevent, and respond to repository leaks.

7 May 2026
Cybersecurity DevSecOps Supply Chain

The EDR Dead Zone: How Attackers Pivot Through Cameras and NAS Devices

IoT devices like IP cameras and NAS boxes sit on your network but outside your EDR coverage. Here's how attackers exploit them to pivot — and how defenders can detect it.

7 May 2026
Cybersecurity Red Team Blue Team

The Linux Server Attack Surface You Didn't Install: Default Services That Open Your System

Every major Linux distro ships services you never asked for. From snapd to CUPS to rpcbind — a practical audit guide covering Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Rocky, Fedora, and openSUSE.

7 May 2026
Hardening Blue Team Linux

Linux Lateral Movement: Attack Techniques and How to Detect Them

A complete guide to Linux lateral movement — SSH pivoting, ssh-agent hijacking, credential harvesting, port forwarding, and NFS abuse. Includes auditd rules, Sigma, Wazuh, and Sentinel KQL detections.

7 May 2026
Linux Red Team Blue Team

Linux Privilege Escalation: Attack Techniques and How to Detect Them

A complete guide to Linux privilege escalation — SUID abuse, sudo misconfig, cron hijacking, capabilities, and kernel exploits. Includes auditd rules, Sigma, Wazuh, and Sentinel KQL detections.

7 May 2026
Linux Red Team Blue Team

Trust Me, I'm a Shortcut: How LNK Files Lie to Windows Explorer

Windows .lnk shortcut files can show one target while silently executing another. Discover five spoofing techniques including CVE-2025-9491, how attackers exploit them, and how to detect them.

7 May 2026
Red Team Blue Team Windows Security

macOS Offensive Security: How Attackers Exploit Apple's Unique Attack Surface

TCC bypass, Keychain theft, Launch Agent persistence, dylib hijacking — how attackers target macOS and how defenders detect them. Attack→Detect with real commands.

7 May 2026
Red Team Blue Team Detection

Non-Human Identities: The Attack Surface Your Security Team Isn't Managing

Service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens and machine credentials now outnumber human identities 144 to 1. Most organizations have zero visibility into them. Attackers do.

7 May 2026
Cybersecurity Identity Security Blue Team

The Package You Trusted: How the Axios Supply Chain Attack Happened

On March 31, 2026, a trusted npm package with 400 million monthly downloads was backdoored for three hours. Here's how it worked and why it keeps happening.

7 May 2026
Cybersecurity Supply Chain Malware Analysis

NTFS Alternate Data Streams: How Attackers Hide in Plain Sight

NTFS Alternate Data Streams let attackers hide executables inside innocent-looking files. Learn how ADS works, how malware uses it, and how to detect it with PowerShell, Sysinternals, and Sysmon.

7 May 2026
Red Team Blue Team Windows Security

NTLM Relay in 2026: Microsoft Declared It Dead. Attackers Didn't Get the Memo.

Microsoft is officially deprecating NTLM — yet CVE-2025-24054 was actively exploited days after patching, and the Coercion → Relay → ADCS → Domain Admin chain still works in most enterprise environments. Here's the full 2026 kill chain and how to detect it.

7 May 2026
Active Directory Red Team Blue Team

Pass-the-Hash & Pass-the-Ticket: How Attackers Move Laterally — and How to Catch Them

A practitioner's guide to PtH and PtT attacks: how they work, what tools attackers use, what evidence they leave behind, and how to build detections with Sigma and Wazuh.

7 May 2026
Active Directory Red Team Blue Team

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Prepare Before Your Encryption Breaks

Quantum computers will crack today's encryption — and attackers are already stealing encrypted data to decrypt later. Here's what post-quantum cryptography means for everyone.

7 May 2026
Cybersecurity Cryptography Privacy

Purple Teaming on a Budget: Free Tools and Frameworks That Actually Work

A practical guide to building a purple team program using only free, open-source tools. Covers Atomic Red Team, MITRE Caldera, Sigma rules, Wazuh, and VECTR with real setup examples.

7 May 2026
Blue Team Cybersecurity MITRE ATT&CK

Rapid Compromise Triage: First 10 Minutes on Linux and Windows

A practical workflow for the first 10 minutes after a suspected breach — commands with explanations for Linux and Windows triage, red flags, and when to escalate.

7 May 2026
Incident Response Blue Team DFIR

Shadow Credentials: Account Takeover Without a Password

Shadow Credentials abuse msDS-KeyCredentialLink via DACL misconfiguration to add a rogue certificate, authenticate via PKINIT, and extract NT hashes — no password required.

7 May 2026
Active Directory Red Team Blue Team

SSRF Explained: How Attackers Make Servers Fetch Secrets for Them

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) lets attackers trick a server into making requests on their behalf — reaching internal systems, cloud credentials, and more.

7 May 2026
Web Security Red Team Blue Team

Starkiller: Inside Empire's C2 GUI — Red Team Playbook and Blue Team Detection

A technical deep dive into Starkiller and PowerShell Empire — how red teams deploy and operate it, and exactly how defenders can detect and disrupt it.

7 May 2026
Blue Team Cybersecurity Lateral Movement

When Trusted Agents Turn Rogue: The Rise of the Double Agent in Modern AI Systems

AI agents are trusted to act on your behalf — but that trust is exactly what attackers exploit. Here's how AI agents get turned against you, and why you won't see it coming.

7 May 2026
AI Security Cybersecurity Red Team

Why Changing Your DNS Is One of the Best Privacy Decisions You'll Make

Your ISP tracks every website you visit through DNS. Learn why changing to privacy-focused DNS providers like Mullvad, Quad9, or DNS4EU is essential for online privacy.

7 May 2026
Network Security Privacy Cybersecurity

Why Enterprise VPN and Gateway Products Are Perpetually Broken

Ivanti, Fortinet, Palo Alto — the names change but the pattern doesn't. Here's the structural reason why enterprise edge devices are permanently on fire and what you can do about it.

7 May 2026
Cybersecurity Red Team Blue Team

Windows Event Logs for Security Analysts: Read, Hunt, Automate

A practical guide to Windows Event Log analysis for blue teams — key Event IDs, PowerShell automation, cross-version differences, and structured exports for SIEM tools.

7 May 2026
Blue Team Detection Windows

When Your Defender Becomes the Attacker: How Trusted Windows Processes Get Weaponized

Windows Defender and other high-privilege system processes are increasingly targeted by attackers. Learn how security tools become attack surfaces — and what you can do about it.

7 May 2026
Windows Security Privilege Escalation Cybersecurity

Wireshark for Threat Detection: A Practical Guide for 2026

How to find real threats with Wireshark in 2026 — encrypted traffic analysis, JA3 fingerprinting, ransomware patterns, C2 beaconing, and DNS tunneling explained step by step.

7 May 2026
Blue Team Network Security Wireshark

Xanthorox AI: When the Attacker's AI Goes Dark

Xanthorox is an offline, modular AI attack platform with five specialized models — and it needs no cloud, no API, and leaves no traditional IoCs. Here's what defenders need to know.

7 May 2026
Cybersecurity Malware Analysis AI Security

XSS Explained: How Attackers Inject Code Into Your Browser

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) lets attackers inject malicious JavaScript into web pages viewed by other users — stealing sessions, redirecting victims, and taking over accounts.

7 May 2026
Web Security Red Team Blue Team

Memory Forensics with Volatility 3: What Attackers Leave Behind

How attackers hide in RAM using fileless malware and process injection — and how defenders use Volatility 3 to find them. Practical DFIR workflow with real commands.

30 April 2026
Malware Analysis Blue Team Detection

MITRE ATT&CK v19: Defense Evasion Is Dead — Meet Stealth and Impair Defenses

ATT&CK v19 drops April 28 and splits Defense Evasion into two tactics. Here's what changes, why it matters for detection engineering, and what you need to do before the weekend.

26 April 2026
MITRE ATT&CK Detection Blue Team

From CVE to RCE in Hours: The Collapse of the Exploitation Window

The average time from vulnerability disclosure to active exploitation has collapsed from 756 days in 2018 to mere hours in 2025. Here's what that means for defenders.

14 April 2026
Vulnerability Management Blue Team Threat Intelligence

Vulnerability Exploitation Overtook Phishing — What That Means for Defenders

For the first time, vulnerability exploitation is the #1 initial access vector — not phishing. Here's what the data says and how defenders must adapt.

14 April 2026
Blue Team Vulnerability Management Detection

Active Directory Attacks: The Complete Attack Path Guide

A structured guide to Active Directory attack techniques — from BloodHound enumeration through Kerberoasting, LSASS dumping, ADCS abuse, and Shadow Credentials to Entra ID pivot. Every technique with detection coverage.

8 April 2026
Active Directory Red Team Blue Team

Kubernetes and Container Security: Attacks, Misconfigurations, and Defenses

How attackers break out of containers, escalate privileges in Kubernetes clusters, and move into cloud infrastructure — and how defenders detect and stop them.

8 April 2026
Cybersecurity Red Team Blue Team

Cookie-Controlled PHP Webshells: A Stealthy Tradecraft in Linux Hosting Environments

Microsoft's Defender team uncovered a clever attacker technique: PHP webshells that stay completely dormant until activated by a secret HTTP cookie. Here's how it works — and how to catch it.

4 April 2026
Web Security Red Team Blue Team

Telegram as a C2 Server: How It Works and How to Detect It

Attackers use Telegram's Bot API as command-and-control infrastructure — no Telegram install needed on the victim machine. Here's the mechanics, real-world examples, and blue team detection strategies.

23 March 2026
Cybersecurity Blue Team Malware Analysis

Salt Typhoon: How China Hacked the World's Largest Telecoms

Salt Typhoon is the worst telecom breach in history. The Chinese APT stayed hidden for years inside AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. Here's the full attack chain, the tools they used, and the detection opportunities blue teams missed.

17 March 2026
Threat Intelligence Red Team Blue Team

What 218 Million Honeypot Events Reveal About January 2026

Global honeypot sensors logged over 218 million malicious events in January 2026. MSSQL attacks doubled, botnet infrastructure expanded 50%, and attackers pivoted away from RDP toward database targeting.

14 February 2026
Cybersecurity Network Security Threat Intelligence

PathSentry: Detecting and Preventing Windows PATH Hijacking Attacks

Windows PATH hijacking enables attackers to execute malicious code through writable directories. PathSentry uses two-phase detection to identify vulnerable PATH entries before exploitation.

4 February 2026
Blue Team Cybersecurity Endpoint Security

Threat Hunting with Wazuh: Building Effective Detection Rules

A practical guide to writing custom Wazuh detection rules for threat hunting — covering rule anatomy, decoder chaining, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and real-world detection scenarios for enterprise environments.

28 January 2026
Wazuh SIEM Blue Team

Client-Side File Analysis with Directory Tool Pro

A Chrome extension for local file scanning and secrets detection. No cloud uploads, instant analysis, useful for security audits and pentesting workflows.

19 January 2026
Cybersecurity Red Team Web Security

The Human Remains the Weakest Link – But Now It's AI-Assisted

AI has transformed social engineering into an automated, scalable threat. Learn how attackers leverage AI-powered phishing, deepfakes, and voice cloning—and what defenders can do about it.

27 December 2025
AI Security Social Engineering Threat Intelligence
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