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Forensic Analysis
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Emi Polito at Amped
How To Investigate Video Evidence: Workflows, Pitfalls and Best Practices -
Christian Peter
That still only counts as one! – iLEAPP Sticker Animation -
Brian Carrier at Cyber Triage
DFIR+AI Primer: When Not To Use GenAI -
Oleg Afonin at Elcomsoft
Forensic Implications of Apple Stolen Device Protection -
Forensafe
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Joe T. Sylve, Ph.D.
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Matthew Plascencia
Canonical Multipass Forensics 101
Threat hunting/threat intelligence
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Aikido
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Jon Williams at Bishop Fox
Popping Root on UniFi OS Server: Unauthenticated RCE Chain Detection & Analysis -
Phil Miller at Black Hills Information Security, Inc.
Auditing GitLab: The CI/CD Kill Chain -
Wendy McCague at BlackFog
The State of Ransomware: May 2026 -
Brian Krebs at ‘Krebs on Security’
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts -
Daniel Whitcombe, Alex Jones, James Smee and Nathan Richards at Bridewell
Intelligence Insights: May 2026 -
BushidoToken
UK Cybercrime Journal: British Universities Struck by ShinyHunters Before Exam Season -
Censys
How a Dangling DNS Entry Can Lead to a Subdomain Takeover -
CERT-AGID
Sintesi riepilogativa delle campagne malevole nella settimana del 30 maggio – 5 giugno -
Check Point
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Ron Scott-Adams at Cisco’s Talos
Hypotheses, telemetry, and human judgment: Inside Cisco Talos Threat Hunting -
CloudSEK
How an Unauthenticated MCP Server Led to SSRF, LFI, and AWS Credential Theft -
Kahng An at Cofense
Embedded Threats: How Attackers Weaponize Legitimate Emails -
CTF导航
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Cyble
C-Suite Impersonation in the Gulf: How Threat Actors Are Targeting UAE & Saudi Executives in 2026 -
Daniel Koifman
The Interesting Case of WSL for Payload Staging -
Dark Atlas
Inside Modern Supply Chain Intrusions: From CI/CD Abuse to Ecosystem-Wide Compromise -
Detect FYI
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Disconinja
Weekly Threat Infrastructure Investigation(Week23) -
Dragos
Dragos Industrial Ransomware Analysis for the First Quarter of 2026 -
Martin Warmer, Davy Boekhout and Jorn Pieterse at Eye Research
Device Code Phishing Forensics: What We Learned Investigating BEC in the Wild -
FalconFeeds
FIFA World Cup 2026: Mapping the Global Cyber Scam Ecosystem Targeting Fans -
Flare
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Flashpoint
Understanding Illicit Ecosystems: XSS and the Current State of the Russian-Speaking Underground -
Fortinet
Cybercriminals Are Targeting the FIFA World Cup 2026 -
Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, and Tyler McLellan at Google Cloud Threat Intelligence
Seeking Counsel: Ongoing Targeted Campaign Against US Law Firms -
Group-IB
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Alex Holland at HP Wolf Security
The Anatomy of a Destructive Attack -
Hunt IO
PCPJack Hijacked 230 AWS, GCP, and Azure Servers to Run a Hidden SMTP Relay Network -
Intel 471
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Nicole Fishbein at Intezer
How attackers are gaining access to LLM inference -
Gilbert Kallenborn at Intrinsec
Analyste CTI et LLM: exemple d’une collaboration fructueuse -
Invictus Incident Response
How to respond to an incident in Kubernetes | AKS | Invictus Incident Response -
Lares
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LevelBlue SpiderLabs
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Aayush Tyagi at McAfee Labs
Game Over: WeedHack – The Rise of Minecraft Malware-as-a-Service Campaigns -
Microsoft Security
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Moonlock
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Eugenio Benincasa at Natto Thoughts
How China’s Cyber Operations – and the Contractors Behind Them – Target Critics Abroad -
Jonathan Peters at Nextron Systems
Detecting Nimbus Manticore and their sideloading infection chains -
Stamatis Chatzimangou at NVISO Labs
The Detection & Response Chronicles: Covert Operations Through QEMU -
OpenSourceMalware
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OSINT Team
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OX Security
- New npm Supply Chain Attack: @redhat-cloud-services Compromised
- Six Stages Deep and an Endless Loop: Shai-Hulud Is Getting Sophisticated
- IronWorm Supply Chain Malware Hits npm
- 600,000 Monthly Downloads Affected: Miasma Supply Chain Attack Is Back on npm
- Malware-Slop 2: Malicious npm Package Leaks Its Own Bot’s Telegram Private Token
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Ido Asher, Noa Dekel and Tom Fakterman at Palo Alto Networks
Operation FlutterBridge: macOS Malvertising Campaign Spreads New FlutterShell Backdoor -
Guy Barnhart-Magen at Profero
We Added a Detection Rule. We Were Not Expecting This. -
Proofpoint
TA4922: The Suspected Chinese Crime Group is Going Global -
Dan Green at Push Security
Using the Pyramid of Pain for threat detection in the AI era -
Recorded Future
Iran Expands Handala Brand to Physical Threats -
Matt Graeber at Red Canary
Investigating suspicious AI workflows in Microsoft Entra Agent ID: Agent’s user account -
Alexa Feminella at ReliaQuest
ReliaQuest’s Agentic AI Uncovers New China-Linked Cluster OP-512 -
SANS Internet Storm Center
- YARA-X 1.17.0 Release, (Sun, May 31st)
- Unidentified RAT pushes NetSupport RAT, (Mon, Jun 1st)
- New Wave Of Phishing Emails with SVG Files, (Tue, Jun 2nd)
- Continuing Scans for swagger.json, (Wed, Jun 3rd)
- Microsoft’s Coreutils for Windows, (Thu, Jun 4th)
- The Evil MSI Background is Back!, (Fri, Jun 5th)
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Sansec
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Securelist
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Sekoia
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Bineesh P at Seqrite
Best Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks to Minimize Damage -
SOCRadar
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Step Security
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SuspectFile
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Symantec Enterprise
Espionage Campaign Targeted Stock Exchange Executive for Five Months -
Sysdig
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ThreatFabric
Own Goal? Piracy as an Attack Vector to Target Football Fans -
ThreatMon
Oil & Gas Sector Cyber Threat Intelligence Report 2026 -
Carlos Perez at TrustedSec
The Privileged Roles Nobody Talks About -
Lucie Cardiet at Vectra AI
From Conti to The Gentlemen: tooling evolved, gaps didn’t. by Lucie Cardiet -
VMRay
YARA Rules: A Complete Guide with Best Practices and Use Cases -
Damien Cash, Paul Rascagneres, Steven Adair, and Tom Lancaster at Volexity
VerdantBamboo: Just Another BRICKSTORM in the Firewall -
Merav Bar and Rami McCarthy at Wiz
Miasma: Supply Chain Attack Targeting RedHat npm Packages -
István Márton at Wordfence
Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Everest Forms Pro Plugin
Upcoming events/webinars
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ADF Solutions
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Black Hills Information Security
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Cellebrite
From Seizure to Intelligence: Practical Digital Evidence Workflows for Drug Investigations -
Magnet Forensics
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SANS
Poisoned Packages & Stolen Secrets: The Rise of Supply Chain Attacks -
Sygnia
The Anatomy of Cyber Attacks Affecting OT Organizations
Presentations/podcasts
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Alexis Brignoni
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Behind the Binary by Google Cloud Security
EP26 When AI Features Create Zero-Click Exploits: The Pixel 9 Chain with Seth Jenkins -
Cyber Secrets
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Cyber Social Hub
- Techno Live
- Techno Day 2 – S2 Data
- Live from Techno Security in Myrtle Beach with JJ from ADF Solutions
- Live at Techno Security with Alex from Lumyx!
- Techno Day 3
- Techno Day 2 – Martino from Amped
- Techno Day 2 – BlackRainbow
- Techno Day 2 – Matt Danner from Monolith Forensics
- Jennifer from Techno Security Conference – Techno Day 3
- DATAPILOT – Techno Day 3
- Jessica Hyde – Techno Day 3
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Dr Josh Stroschein
[Workshop] Saying Goodbye to the #US Stream – Analyzing String Obfuscation -
FIRST
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Huntress
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InfoSec_Bret
IR – SOC340 – Apache Tomcat Serialized Payload RCE (CVE-2025-24813) -
John Hammond
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Adam Goss at Kraven Security
CTI for SMB: How Small Businesses Can Operationalize Threat Intelligence for Free -
Magnet Forensics
Cyber Unpacked S3:E3 // The burnout equation: Sustaining your SOC and IR teams for the long game -
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast
Supply Chain Attacks: Open Source or Open Door? -
Monolith Forensics
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MyDFIR
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Off By One Security
Failure is Not an Option! A Reliable Process to Exploit STM32F2/F4 Microcontrollers, with Joe Grand -
OpenSourceMalware
OpenSourceMalware Show Episode #7 – June 3, 2026 -
Parsing The Truth: One Byte at a Time Podcast
S2 E3: The 12 Invoices -
Emma Burdett at Rapid7
A Day in the Life of an MDR Analyst: Inside the Modern SOC -
SANS
She Convinced the Pentagon to Let Hackers In. Legally. With Katie Moussouris -
SANS Cloud Security
SANS Cloud Security: Securing Gen AI RAG Data using Azure AI Search with Eric Johnson -
SANS Cyber Defense
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SentinelOne
LABScon25 Replay | Gamaredon x Turla: Unveiling a 2025 Espionage Alliance Targeting Ukraine -
Team Cymru
How Akira hits thousands of SMBs with $50K-$150K ransoms undetected | Alex Bovicelli -
Three Buddy Problem
Fast16, Fanny, and Stuxnet: Cyber Paleontology Redux
Malware analysis
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Any.Run
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ASEC
Crypto Guest at Dawn Endpoint (Midnight) ransomware analysis -
Dr. Web
Android.MagicAd trojan displays ads despite all restrictions -
Elastic Security Labs
PHANTOMPULSE: anatomy of a hijackable blockchain-C2 RAT -
ExaTrack
Tracking APT28 PixyNetLoader: Evolutions from 2024 to 2026 -
Vincent Li at Fortinet
Inside the Cross-Platform Propagation of a New Gafgyt Variant C0XMO -
Arvin Tan and Sean Cartagena at G Data Software
Browser Spy-Ons: Threat Actor’s Extension Hijack Your AI Conversations -
Reegun Jayapaul and Rahul Ramesh at Howler Cell
Inside an Active STX RAT Supply Chain Campaign -
Morphisec
VECT: Ransomware That Can’t Decrypt -
Mostafa Farghaly
Unmasking Quellostanco: How a Git Commit Exposed a Threat Actor Targeting Egyptian Infrastructure (co-authored) -
ReversingLabs
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RexorVc0
Diamotrix -
Snyk
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Socket
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Sophos
Miscellaneous
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Adam at Hexacorn
little secret of msconfig.exe -
Alexis Brignoni at ‘Initialization Vectors’
LEAPPs.org – Latest changes! -
Andrea Fortuna
When digital evidence follows you home in DFIR teams -
Andrew Garrett
Being Cross-Examined by AI -
Brett Shavers
The difference between “No one will hire me” and “I am no longer professionally allowed to do this DFIR work” -
Cellebrite
AI in Digital Forensics: 10 Best Practices for Investigators -
CyberBoo
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Part 10: Attack Simulation Training -
Decrypting a Defense
Securus Jail Call Monitoring, Cities Lose Control Over Surveillance, Police IDs Made from Video, Nina Loshkajian Answers 5 Questions & More -
Fabian Mendoza at DFIR Dominican
DFIR Jobs Update – 06/01/26 -
Forensic Focus
- Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.11, Expanding AI-Powered Investigations And Evidence Extraction Capabilities
- Burnout, PTSD, Suicidal Thoughts – The DFIR Well-Being Study Results Are In
- Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, June 01 2026
- Andreas Antonsen, Founder, STNDRDS AB
- Video Timing In Amped FIVE
- Digital Forensics Round-Up, June 03 2026
- Forensic Focus Digest, June 05 2026
- How Freeland Is Using Detego Technology to Dismantle Wildlife Trafficking Networks
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Johan Berggren and Wajih Yassine at Open Source DFIR
Welcoming OpenRelik to the OSDFIR Infrastructure family -
Oxygen Forensics
How to Use Image Categorization in Oxygen Forensic® Detective -
Passware
BitLocker Decryption Today: YellowKey Explained and Where Passware Steps In -
Patrick Siewert at ‘The Philosophy of DFIR’
Training Philosophy: Law Enforcement vs. Private Sector -
Ben Webb at Recon Infosec
Cross-Org Visibility for LimaCharlie -
Rob T. Lee
A Buffer Is Not a Cure -
TobyG at sentinel.blog
Sentinel-As-Code: Wave 4, the docs nobody wanted to write -
Sygnia
Incident Response Metrics That Actually Matter to Boards (And the Ones That Don’t) -
Aditya Bhatt at System Weakness
Splunk 101: Hands-On Introduction to SIEM, Log Ingestion, and Basic Threat Hunting -
Sydney Marrone at THOR Collective Dispatch
You’ve Got This: Just Hit Submit on That Brilliant Idea
Software releases/updates
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Alexandre Borges
Malwoverview 8.0.2 -
Digital Sleuth
winfor-salt v2026.9.6 -
Erik Hjelmvik at Netresec
PolarProxy 2.0.1 Released -
Hasherezade
PE-Bear v0.7.2 -
Joe T. Sylve, Ph.D.
SpiceCrypt 3.0: QSPICE Support -
Lethal Forensics
Microsoft-Analyzer-Suite v1.8.0 -
MISP
MISP 2.5.39 – New Dashboard Experience, Stronger STIX, Sharper Analyst Workflows -
James Chambers and Robert Herrera at NCC Group
Tool Release – Ghidra MediaTek Modem Image Loader -
Tobias Michalski at Nextron Systems
New THOR Cloud Log Inspection View -
North Loop Consulting
Sedgwick v1.3 Release! -
OpenCTI
7.260604.0 -
Qimin Zhao
open-investigator Open Investigator v1.26.0 -
radare2
6.1.6 -
Rapid7
Velociraptor Release 0.76.6 -
VirusTotal
YARA v4.5.7
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