Research & Analysis

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Incident Analysis

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The Axios npm Compromise: How the Internet's Most Popular HTTP Client Became a Trojan Horse
2026-03-31#security

The Axios npm Compromise: How the Internet's Most Popular HTTP Client Became a Trojan Horse

A hijacked maintainer account. A phantom dependency. A self-erasing Remote Access Trojan. If you ran `npm install` on March 31, 2026, your infrastructure might already be compromised

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The End of an Era: Microsoft Kills WDS Hands-Free Deployment for Windows 11 & Server 2025 Following Critical RCE
2026-03-17#CVE

The End of an Era: Microsoft Kills WDS Hands-Free Deployment for Windows 11 & Server 2025 Following Critical RCE

CVE-2026-0386 marks the end of WDS hands-free imaging. Why Microsoft is forcing a shift to Zero Trust to prevent supply-chain attacks.

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Silent Privilege Escalation: How Public Google API Keys Now Expose Gemini Data
2026-02-27#threat-intel

Silent Privilege Escalation: How Public Google API Keys Now Expose Gemini Data

For over a decade, Google told developers it was safe to put API keys in public code. Then, AI changed the rules.

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RoguePilot: How a Passive Prompt Injection Led to GitHub Repository Takeovers
2026-02-25#Threat-Intel

RoguePilot: How a Passive Prompt Injection Led to GitHub Repository Takeovers

A deep dive into RoguePilot: How passive prompt injection turns GitHub Copilot into an insider threat for repo takeovers.

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Conduent Data Breach: 25+ Million Americans Impacted in One of the Largest U.S. Cyber Incidents
2026-02-24#security

Conduent Data Breach: 25+ Million Americans Impacted in One of the Largest U.S. Cyber Incidents

How a third-party government contractor breach escalated into a multi-state crisis involving healthcare data, regulatory probes, and potential class actions.

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The Day the Maps Went Blank: Unpacking the Cloudflare BYOIP BGP Outage of 2026
2026-02-24#security

The Day the Maps Went Blank: Unpacking the Cloudflare BYOIP BGP Outage of 2026

How a single empty string of code wiped 25% of Cloudflare's network. A deep dive into the 2026 BGP outage and the fragility of the web.

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Security Deep Dives

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Your Secure Messenger is Spying on You (And You Can't Turn It Off)
2026-03-31#security

Your Secure Messenger is Spying on You (And You Can't Turn It Off)

No malware. No clicking on sketchy links. All a hacker needs is your phone number to track your sleep schedule, app usage, and physical location.

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The Quantum Heist: Defeating "Store Now, Decrypt Later" with Merkle Tree Certificates
2026-03-03#cryptography

The Quantum Heist: Defeating "Store Now, Decrypt Later" with Merkle Tree Certificates

State-sponsored hackers are hoarding encrypted data today to break it tomorrow. Here is how Google’s new Merkle Tree Certificates will stop them.

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How Attackers Use WebDAV to Deliver Malware Without Browser Warnings
2026-03-01#threat-intel

How Attackers Use WebDAV to Deliver Malware Without Browser Warnings

Why malware no longer needs your web browser to breach your network-and how attackers are weaponizing legacy WebDAV protocols.

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The Perfect Digital Storm: Why the WEF Ranks Cybersecurity as India's #1 Risk in 2026
2026-02-26#Threat-Intel

The Perfect Digital Storm: Why the WEF Ranks Cybersecurity as India's #1 Risk in 2026

702 attacks per minute. 369M in a year. Why the WEF just ranked cybersecurity as the ultimate threat to India’s booming digital economy.

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The Invisible Siege: Why Modern APTs Have Weaponized the Operating System
2026-02-08#threat-intel

The Invisible Siege: Why Modern APTs Have Weaponized the Operating System

The era of "smash-and-grab" malware attacks is fading among state-sponsored actors. Today’s Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have shifted toward a "Living-off-the-Land" (LotL) paradigm.

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Deconstructing a Stealthy Android Trojan: A Case Study in Phishing and Evasion
2025-10-22#security

Deconstructing a Stealthy Android Trojan: A Case Study in Phishing and Evasion

From a compromised WhatsApp group to a Man-in-the-Middle attack, this is the story of how a sophisticated Android malware uses deception and advanced anti-analysis techniques to steal banking credentials.

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