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Ladders, Cubes, and Hoops - Oh My!
The current cybersecurity hiring ecosystem relies too heavily on degrees, certifications, and broad, shallow “fundamentals,” while offering few structured entry-level pathways or apprenticeships. This creates a systemic talent risk that directly affects security effectiveness, operational continuity, and long-term resiliency.
Dec 7, 20258 min read


React2Shell: Now With 90% Less Authentication!
CVE-2025-55182 is a critical unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaw affecting React Server Components and downstream frameworks such as Next.js, enabling attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers.
Dec 5, 202522 min read


Campus Lifehack: Don’t Let Your ERP Major in Compromise
Synthesizing all three sources, the OSINT indicates that an unauthorized third party exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite in August 2025 to hack the Oracle EBS environments of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Phoenix.
Dec 4, 202517 min read


When Hackers Want the Keys Before the Buyers Do
A ransomware group known as Devman allegedly attacked the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority, disrupting access to real estate records across Georgia and claiming theft of 500 GB of sensitive data, which has delayed closings and impacted buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals statewide.
Dec 4, 202513 min read


Qilin Crashes the Brewery: A Cyber Heist with No Happy Hour
Threat actors associated with the Qilin ransomware operation infiltrated Asahi’s Japan network through compromised equipment, exfiltrated personal and business data affecting roughly 1.5–2 million customers, employees, and related contacts, and deployed ransomware that encrypted multiple servers and PCs, causing widespread operational shutdowns and significant service disruption across Japan.
Dec 4, 202522 min read


When Your Toaster Joins a Botnet: ShadowV2’s World Tour
The OSINT reports that a Mirai-based botnet variant named ShadowV2 is exploiting known vulnerabilities in widely deployed IoT devices across multiple countries and industries to build a DDoS-capable botnet, with recent activity during a global AWS outage assessed as a likely test run for future attacks.
Dec 3, 202518 min read


How to Lose Crypto and Alienate Developers: A Guide by OtterCookie
The OSINT reports that North Korean state-sponsored operators are running the “Contagious Interview” campaign, using malicious npm packages, GitHub, and Vercel infrastructure, and the OtterCookie malware family to compromise blockchain and Web3 developers, exfiltrate credentials and wallet data, and remotely control infected systems for digital asset theft and espionage.
Dec 3, 202521 min read


The Ministry of Just Kidding: How Bloody Wolf Turns PDFs into Remote Control
“Bloody Wolf” is actively expanding spear-phishing campaigns across Central Asia by impersonating Ministries of Justice and using custom JAR loaders to deploy the legitimate NetSupport RAT for persistent remote access and low-profile operations.
Dec 2, 202516 min read


Driver’s Ed for Criminals: How Ransomware Learns to Run Over Your Defenses
The OSINT reports that threat actors deploying Qilin ransomware are using a previously undocumented Windows malware packer, TangleCrypt, to hide and launch the STONESTOP EDR-killer with the ABYSSWORKER driver, using multi-layered encoding and flexible injection techniques but with implementation flaws that can cause crashes and reduce reliability.
Dec 2, 202519 min read


Synopsis Quantification 12-1-2025
December 1, 2025 Quantifying the loss-magnitude signatures, governance breakpoints, thematic clusters, attack surfaces, cost drivers, and blast-radius patterns across these scenarios serves one central purpose: to turn narrative cyber incidents into measurable business risk. Without quantification, organizations are left guessing about which threats actually matter, how big the losses could be, and where governance or control failures create systemic exposure. By translating
Dec 1, 202510 min read


Cross-Synopsis Similarities and Differences
December 1, 2025 This similarity and difference report provides a consolidated analysis of multiple threat synopses to reveal the recurring patterns, unique characteristics, and comparative risk dynamics that shape an organization’s overall cyber-risk landscape. By examining how these threats align or diverge in their behaviors, access vectors, governance pressures, and financial impacts, the report enables readers to identify systemic weaknesses, prioritize control investmen
Dec 1, 20256 min read


Secrets, Spice, and Sudden Deletion: Shai-Hulud’s Destructive Turn
November 30th, 2025 Synopsis The analysis shows that Shai-hulud 2.0 is a highly capable supply-chain threat that compromises CI/CD workflows, developer accounts, and cloud secret stores to harvest credentials, weaponize npm packages, and propagate automatically across dependent systems, creating a scalable and repeating compromise pattern. This understanding shapes strategic decisions by requiring stronger governance over software-supply-chain risk, dependency management, and
Nov 30, 202524 min read


When Your Emergency System Needs Emergency Services
A nationwide ransomware attack on CodeRED forced Crisis24 to shut down its emergency alert system, steal user data, and rebuild from months-old backups—leaving cities scrambling to warn residents that their warning system is down.
Nov 29, 202518 min read


Everest Ransomware Takes Iberia for a Ride
Synopsis The analysis indicates that Everest is a highly capable, financially motivated ransomware group able to maintain long-term access, conduct large-scale exfiltration of structured customer and payment data, manipulate operational records, and in some cases encrypt core systems, creating a single loss event that spans operational disruption, regulatory exposure, and widespread customer impact. This information elevates strategic decision making by forcing executives to
Nov 28, 202517 min read


Ransomware Targets Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Akira’s campaign demonstrates a high-capability extortion threat that routinely exploits phishing, valid-account abuse, and internet-facing vulnerabilities, driving measurable strategic, operational, and financial risk with an expected loss frequency of about one event every two years and substantial potential impact on sensitive data and organizational resilience.
Nov 28, 202517 min read


TA569’s Fake Update Pop-Up: Now Featuring a Cameo by Russian Intelligence
Arctic Wolf Labs reports that RomCom, a Russian-aligned threat group, was observed delivering its Mythic Agent loader through the SocGholish framework for the first time, targeting a U.S. engineering firm with ties to Ukraine.
Nov 26, 202518 min read


Ferrets
Fake LinkedIn jobs trick Mac users into downloading Flexible Ferret malware
Nov 26, 202515 min read
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