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Forensic Analysis
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Brian Carrier at Cyber Triage
DFIR+AI Primer: How to Combat Hallucinations -
Django Faiola at ‘Appunti di Informatica Forense’
iOS Foursquare Swarm – Digging Deeper: New Artifacts Unearthed -
Oleg Afonin at Elcomsoft
Downloading iPhone and iPad backups from Apple iCloud -
Bas van den Berg at Eye Research
Breaking encryption schemes the lazy way -
North Loop Consulting
NLC Spectator
Threat hunting/threat intelligence
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ASEC
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Brian Krebs at ‘Krebs on Security’
Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks -
Censys
MCP Servers on the Internet -
CERT-AGID
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Check Point
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CISA
Supply Chain Compromises Impact Nx Console and GitHub Repositories -
David J. Bianco at Cisco’s Talos
Introducing EvidenceForge: Synthetic security logs that don’t look (as) fake -
Emanuel Duss at Compass Security
SSH Labs -
CrowdStrike
Disrupting Glassworm: Inside CrowdStrike’s Takedown of a Developer-Targeting Botnet -
Crowdstrike
Disrupting Glassworm: Inside CrowdStrike’s Takedown of a Developer-Targeting Botnet -
CTF导航
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Cybersec Sentinel
TrapDoor Targets 34 Packages Across npm, PyPI and Crates.io to Steal Crypto Keys and Poison AI Assistants -
Andrea Draghetti at D3Lab
B1ack’s Stash Releases 4.6 Million Payment Cards: Web Skimming Leak Analysis -
Ryan Simon at Datadog Security Labs
From Exploit Code to Production Detection: Building a CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail) detection with Agents -
Detect FYI
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Disconinja
Weekly Threat Infrastructure Investigation(Week22) -
Elastic Security Labs
Detecting Tycoon 2FA AiTM attacks across Entra ID and Google Workspace -
Esentire
Nimbus RAT: How Threat Actors Are Abusing Microsoft Teams and Google Drive to Deploy a Java RAT -
FalconFeeds
- THE GENTLEMEN: Inside the Russia-Linked Ransomware Operation Rapidly Reshaping the RaaS Ecosystem
- Shai-Hulud: From npm Worm to Cross-Ecosystem Supply Chain Threat
- SideWinder: The India-Linked APT Expanding from South Asia to Global Strategic Infrastructure
- Semiconductor Sanctions & the Cyber Espionage Nexus: How Export Controls Are Reshaping Global Cyber Conflict
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Flashpoint
Understanding Illicit Ecosystems: The Hybrid Threat of “The Com” -
Luis Corrons and Martin Chlumecký at Gen
When Hotel Scams Know Your Booking: 350 Compromised Accommodations Across 50 Countries -
Dwayne McDaniel at GitGuardian
Initial Access Changed, The Attack Path Did Not: Findings From The Verizon 2026 DBIR -
Google Cloud Threat Intelligence
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Yuan Huang and Kuvonchbek Yorkulov at Group-IB
The GHOST STADIUM Score: Billions At Stake At The World’s Largest Football Tournament -
Kenneth Yeung at Hidden Layer
Inside the Prompt: How LLMs Learn Roles, Follow Instructions, and Get Exploited -
Reegun Jayapaul and Sheik Mohamed at Howler Cell
Bad Ads, Worse Binaries: Fake Claude Code Installer Drops Infostealer -
Huntress
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IC3
Silent Ransom Group Impersonating IT Personnel through Social Engineering -
InfoSec Write-ups
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David Sardinha at Intrinsec
Pivoting on a malspam infrastructure delivering JS malware backed by bulletproof networks -
Bert-Jan Pals at KQL Query
EDR Incident Response Playbook: Containing Local Account Incidents -
Maor Gabay at LevelBlue SpiderLabs
Sapphire Sleet Targets macOS in Multi-Stage Intrusion Campaign -
Matt Suiche
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Microsoft Security
- From poisoned search results to GPU mining: A cryptojacking campaign abusing ScreenConnect and Microsoft .NET utilities
- Typosquatted npm packages used to steal cloud and CI/CD secrets
- The Gentlemen ransomware: Dissecting a self-propagating Go encryptor
- Malicious npm packages abuse dependency confusion to profile developer environments
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Oleg Skulkin at ‘Know Your Adversary’
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Moshe Siman Tov Bustan and Nir Zadok at OX Security
Malware-Slop: New Malicious npm Package Leaks Its Own GitHub Private Token -
Matt Brady and Justin Moore at Palo Alto Networks
Out of the Crypt: The Evolving Cyber Extortion Economy -
Andi Ahmeti at Permiso
ChatGPhish: The Page Is the Payload -
Proofpoint
More CVEs, Same Playbook: 2026 Vulnerability Exploitation in the Wild -
Keanu Maharaj at Push Security
LLMShare: using shared chatbot pages to distribute malware -
Red Canary
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Robin Dost at Synaptic Systems
IIM Feed: Attack Pattern Mapping for Adversary Infrastructure (5/7) -
SANS Internet Storm Center
- TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-05-24, (Mon, May 25th)
- TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-05-24, (Mon, May 25th)
- Wireshark 4.6.6 Released, (Sun, May 24th)
- Possible ACR Stealer From Page Impersonating Claude, (Tue, May 26th)
- Microsoft Access VBA, (Mon, May 25th)
- Reconstructing an Akira Ransomware Kill Chain from Perimeter and Endpoint Logs, (Wed, May 27th)
- Analysis of a Year of Files Uploaded to DShield Sensors, (Wed, May 27th)
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Silent Push
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Socket
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SOCRadar
Dark Web Profile: CoinbaseCartel -
Marco A. De Felice aka amvinfe at SuspectFile
Universitat de València Targeted by Nova Group: 300GB Data Exfiltration Claimed, Initial $500,000 Ransom Demand Revealed -
Michael Clark at Sysdig
AI agent at the wheel: How an attacker used LLMs to move from a CVE to an internal database in 4 pivots -
Ron Popov at Tenable
Download pumping: New npm deception technique for supply chain attacks -
Josh Rykowski at Todyl
Kali365 PhaaS: Inside the Attack Infrastructure -
Trend Micro
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Jean-Francois Gobin at Truesec
Installation of a Syslog Log Collector -
WeLiveSecurity
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Shira Ayal, Eden Abergil, Andre Maccarone, Yuval Dan, and Benjamin Read at Wiz
Commit to Compromise: A New Threat Actor Targeting the Cryptocurrency Industry’s Software Development Infrastructure
Upcoming events/webinars
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ADF Solutions
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Black Hills Information Security
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Cellebrite
Meet Cellebrite Genesis: From Digital Overload to Investigative Clarity -
Magnet Forensics
Presentations/podcasts
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Hexordia
Truth in Data: S2E9: Beyond the Button: Writing Forensic Reports That Hold Up in Court -
Richard Frawley at ADF Solutions
Triage Smarter, Not Harder: Leveraging the Uniqueness in Your Case for Optimal Results -
Alexis Brignoni
Build chat conversations in LAVA -
Cellebrite
Tip Tuesday: Using Cellebrite Genesis -
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
EP279 Native Cloud Security: Is ‘Good Enough’ Actually Winning? -
Cyber Secrets
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Dr Josh Stroschein
[Workshop] Symbol Renaming & Namespace Flattening -
Endace
Secure Networks, Ep 66 with IR practioner Cody Spooner, Principal Sales Engineer, Corelight -
Gerald Auger at Simply Cyber
What Separates Good SOC Analysts From Great Ones -
InfoSec_Bret
IR -SOC281 – System Network Configuration Discovery Detected -
John Hammond
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Magnet Forensics
Mobile Unpacked S4:E5 // Millings on Modes – Exploring the other Modes of iOS and Android -
Matthew Plascencia
How to Find and Access Linux Logs | Linux Forensics -
Monolith Forensics
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MSAB
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MyDFIR
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Off By One Security
AI Agents as Confused Deputies with Niki Aimable Niyikiza -
OpenSourceMalware
OpenSourceMalware Show Episode #4 – May 5, 2026 -
Parsing The Truth: One Byte at a Time Podcast
S2 E2: Digital Forensics Now Cross Over Event -
Proofpoint
“Always Intentional”: A CISO’s Pragmatic Take on the Agentic Era -
SANS
Still Getting Cloud Wrong. Here’s what to Fix. With Simon Vernon -
SANS Cyber Defense
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THE Security Insights Show
The Security Insights Show Episode 292 – Sentinel Graph and data lake -
The Weekly Purple Team
Herding Katz to Steal Creds -
Three Buddy Problem
- Federico Kirschbaum on XBOW, AI Hackers, and the Future of Pen Testing
- Jordan Wiens on AI, Offense vs. Defense, and the Dying CTF Pipeline
- Perri Adams on Proof Engines, LLMs, and the New Era of Verifiable Code
- Find 50,000 Bugs, Fix Zero: Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro on the AI Vuln Trap
- Aaron Portnoy on Pwn2Own, the End of Easy Bugs, and AI-Fueled Offense
- Microsoft Threatens Vuln Researchers; Shadow Brokers Revisited
Malware analysis
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Cyble
OverlayPhantom: The Android Banking Trojan Hiding in Plain Sight -
Dark Atlas
Behind .payload: In-Depth Technical Analysis of Payload Ransomware -
Darktrace
Chinese APT Campaign Targets Entities with Updated FDMTP Backdoor -
Xiaopeng Zhang at Fortinet
Phishing Campaign Deploys JavaScript-Driven PureLogs Variant to Steal Sensitive Data -
John Dador & Mathew Dela Cruz at G Data Software
Deceptively Sweet: DonutLoader Reloaded in a modern Remcos RAT Infection -
Harsh Gupta at K7 Labs
RVTools Masquerade: How a Signed Fake Installer Deploys a Modular Python RAT -
Manasi Joshi at Paraben Corporation
Behind the Scenes of ClickFix: Blockchain-Based Dead Drop C2 Resolver -
Pulsedive
SolyxImmortal – Analysis of a Python-based Information Stealer -
Robert Simmons at ReversingLabs
Researcher’s Notebook: Hunting Megalodon Fossils -
Diyar Saadi at Secjuice
Malware Analysis: Is It About Tools or Mindset? -
Konstantin Krasilnikov, Valery Akulenko, and Artem Snegirev at Securelist
Pirates in the crosshairs: how one cybercrime gang has been infecting book, movie, and TV show fans for years -
Seqrite
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Shubho57
Analysis of Pay2Key Ransomware -
Zhassulan Zhussupov
- Malware shellcode delivery via signal – part 1. FSK Basics. Simple python script
- Malware shellcode delivery via signal – part 2. The Linux receiver (Goertzel Algorithm). Simple C example
- Malware shellcode delivery via signal – part 3. Fix straddling, ALSA buffer overrun, and sub-bit alignment. Simple python and C examples
Miscellaneous
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Abdul Mhanni
Implementing Impacket’s Newest Protocol: MS-RAA -
Brett Shavers
Don’t Marry the Suspect -
BushidoToken
UK Cybercrime Journal: £102 million Lost to Scams in 2025 -
Cellebrite
The Access Gap Is Closed: What Cellebrite Can Unlock in 2026 -
Dr. Neal Krawetz at ‘The Hacker Factor Blog’
SEAL Unbundled -
Florian Roth
Why I Built My Own LLM Benchmark for THOR Finding Triage -
Forensic Focus
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Kevin Beaumont at DoublePulsar
Microsoft’s stance on zero day exploits is a dumpster fire of their own making -
Magnet Forensics
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OSINT Team
I Built an AI SOC Analyst in n8n That Triages Wazuh Alerts For Me — Here’s Every Node, Explained -
Rob T. Lee
The Glasswing numbers should change what you do this week, not how well you sleep. -
Salvation DATA
SSD Data Recovery: Why SSD Recovery Is Harder Than HDD -
Security Onion
Security Onion Documentation Printed Book Now Updated for Security Onion 3.1! -
Steve Whalen at Sumuri
Apple Never Published the Full APFS Spec -
Ryan G. Cox at The Cybersec Café
The Skill Stack of a Detection & Response Engineer
Software releases/updates
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Alexis Brignoni
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Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Assemblyline v4.7.4.stable3 -
Datadog Security Labs
GuardDog Release v3.0.0a1 -
Digital Sleuth
winfor-salt v2026.9.4 -
Doug Burks
ohmypcap v4.0.0 -
Elcomsoft
Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 11.1: reliable iCloud backup extraction -
Erik Hjelmvik at Netresec
CapLoader 2.1.0 Released -
Hasherezade
tiny_tracer 4.0 -
LEAPPs Org
LAVA v0.13.0 -
OpenCTI
7.260529.0 -
Phil Harvey
ExifTool 13.59 -
Security Onion
Security Onion 3.1.0 Hotfix 20260528 Now Available!
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