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Forensic Analysis
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Hal Pomeranz at ‘Righteous IT’
mtt.sh – Mounting Linux Images -
Heather Barnhart at Smarter Forensics
More Hay On The Haystack: What Our AI Panel Disagreed On -
Howard Oakley at ‘The Eclectic Light Company’
Can I browse log entries from 2 weeks ago? -
LEAPPs Blog
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Jeff Rutherford at Magnet Forensics
RDP: Forensic analysis of Windows Remote Desktop Protocol artifacts -
Marco Neumann at ‘Be-binary 4n6’
Ten Days of Android Battery History – and App Updates -
Matthew Plascencia
Forensics is FIRE!: A Review of LAVA -
Mihir Singh Choudhary
Your Browser Is Keeping Years of Your WhatsApp. -
Kilian Neumair and Louis Flamion at NVISO Labs
Keystrokes in Disguise: Forensic Analysis of a Digispark HID Device -
Sujay Adkesar
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Tim Korver at ‘Thesis Friday’
From hits to a reconstruction: search term sets for the Unified Log (Part 2 of 2) – Thesis Friday #32
Threat hunting/threat intelligence
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PHP vulns!
- Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in PHP Core
- Understanding PHP2Shell: Everything You Need to Know
- Arctic Wolf Labs: Finding, Prioritizing, and Patching PHP2Shell Exposure
- PHP2Shell: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Enable Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
- Reproducing the PHP2Shell Vulnerability and Detection Using AhnLab EDR/XDR
- Analysis of the GitHub “php2shell” Repository: Public PoCs and Defense Tools That Spread Immediately After the Disclosure of the PHP Vulnerability
- “Approximately 110,000 PHP Servers” in Korea: How Were They Counted?
- From PHP2Shell Monitoring to Customer Validation: A Day in Adversary Research
- Using AWS WAF to apply mitigations for PHP2Shell RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)
- Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure in MadPot
- Investigating PHP2Shell after patching
- Technical Advisory: PHP2Shell Pre-Auth RCE (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)
- Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today
- A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities
- PHP2Shell: strumenti per verificare l’esposizione alle vulnerabilità critiche
- PHP2Shell: 650 URL potenzialmente vulnerabili tra gli indirizzi censiti in IPA
- PHP2Shell: Leaked Critical PHP Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619)
- PHP2Shell: Log4Shell at AI Speed — A CISO’s Perspective
- PHP2Shell Update: One in ten organizations impacted as Europe bears the brunt
- Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP Require Immediate Patching
- Two critical RCEs in PHP core
- php2shell: Zeek and Suricata Detections for PHP RCE | Corelight
- CrowdStrike Protects Customers from Threats Delivered via PHP2Shell
- Obstacles to Weaponizing PHP2Shell Likely Constrain Immediate Widespread Exploitation
- 【已复现】漏洞预警|php2shell:PHP Core 远程代码执行漏洞(CVE-2026-109618/109619)
- PHP2Shell: Critical PHP RCE
- PHP Vulnerabilities, ARTEX and the Growing Role of AI in Cyber Attacks
- PHP2Shell – Critical vulnerabilities in PHP (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619): detection, analysis, and remediation
- PHP2Shell: Two Critical PHP Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026–109618 and CVE-2026–109619) — Are Your…
- php2shell: Assessing Elastic detection coverage relevant to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619
- PHP2Shell and the October patch wave: a CISO’s view
- PHP2Shell: Our assessment of the risk for systems running PHP
- PHP2Shell Exploitation Attempts Observed
- PHP2Shell Exposure: 73% of 2.2 Million Version-Disclosing PHP Services Run Unsupported Branches
- Understanding PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities and Reducing Risk While You Patch
- PHP2Shell: What the Vulnerability Means and Why Patching Is Urgent
- PHP 원격 코드 실행 취약점 긴급 안내 보고서
- Responding to php2shell PHP Vulnerability When You Don’t Know What Secrets Are Deployed
- Keep Calm, and Patch PHP2Shell
- PHP2Shell Exposure Depends on More Than Whether You Use PHP
- Hunting Leaked PHP2Shell RCE Across Open Directories (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)
- PHP2Shell: How to Protect Your Server | Kaspersky official blog
- PHP2Shell: Critical RCE Vulnerabilities Affect a Large Majority of Web Servers
- PHP2Shell: What the Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Mean for Your Servers
- Brace for Impact — php2shell
- CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 affecting PHP
- php2shell (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619): Fix & Mitigation
- PHP2SHELL Detection Coverage in THOR
- PHP2Shell Operational Guidance
- Okta’s Response to PHP2Shell
- Critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities
- Patching PHP2Shell: How to Find and Fix Your Exposure
- Critical PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619): how to protect your Bare Metal and VPS servers
- CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619: Two Vulnerabilities Allow Unauthenticated RCE in PHP
- PHP2Shell: 24 hours in, 99.3% of Measurable PHP Instances Are Still Unpatched
- Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619
- Millions of PHP Instances Exposed – What Organizations Need To Do Right Now
- PHP2Shell and what the AI headlines are missing
- CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in PHP
- PHP2Shell Exploitation: Two Critical PHP Flaws Explained
- PHP2Shell: PHP Remote Command Execution Flaw
- Threat advisory: Critical PHP vulnerabilities dubbed ‘PHP2Shell’
- October 2026 PHP vulnerabilities: Sandfly is not affected
- Critical PHP Vulnerability (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) [infocon yellow], (Wed, Oct 21st)
- (Reliable)? php2shell exploitability, (Fri, Oct 23rd)
- PHP Vulnerability Wrap-Up, (Fri, Oct 23rd)
- Critical PHP RCE: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619
- Critical RCE vulnerabilities in PHP (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)
- PHP2Shell: Failed Requests, Memory Corruption and Remote Code Execution
- PHP2Shell: The PHP Vulnerability a Version Scan Can’t Judge
- PHP Patches Two Critical Unauthenticated RCEs (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619): Update Now
- PHP Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities, Organizations Urged to Take Unpatched Sites Offline
- PHP Foundation Says Chainguard Broke Security Embargo Ahead of Emergency Patches
- Proof-of-concept exploit released for PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)
- Critical PHP Security Update: Two RCE Flaws (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)
- php2shell: Two Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Expose Web Servers to Remote Code Execution
- PHP2Shell: Two Critical PHP Flaws Allow Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
- PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619): Detecting unauthenticated remote code execution in PHP core
- The adversary economy: How threat actors are reacting to PHP2Shell
- PHP2Shell: Critical PHP RCE Flaws CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619
- ThreatMon From Underground Forums to SOC: PHP2Shell
- PHP2Shell: What defenders need to know about CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619
- PHP2Shell: Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619) Explained
- What PHP2Shell Reveals About the Limits of Automated Pentesting
- PHP2Shell: One Upload, Full Server
- A patched PHP server can still be a compromised one by Lucie Cardiet
- Sizing the PHP exposure window for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 with VirusTotal
- Neutralizing PHP2Shell: Stopping Critical PHP RCEs with VMware vDefend and Avi WAF
- PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the Internet
- Why It’s Urgent to Update PHP on Your WordPress Site: Two Critical PHP Vulnerabilities and What Our Testing Found
- Attacks on PHP2Shell Continue, But No Known Compromises as a Result Yet
- CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: PHP Vulnerable to Unauthenticated RCE Attacks
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Abdul Mhanni
From Vendor to Vulnerability: How Big-Name Products Degrade Your AD Security -
Ryan Devendorf and Callie Baron at Abnormal Security
Athena StealthRoute: A Phishing Marketplace with Cloaking and AI Tools -
Acronis
The Gentlemen: A closer look at a not-so-gentle ransomware-as-a- service operation -
Adam at Hexacorn
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Aikido
- LiteLLM compromised again: infostealer and RAT found in version 1.107.0
- eMudhra CA compromise: eight private keys, and one of them is 4
- Node2Shell: Node.js Brotli vulnerability allows remote code execution (CVE-2026-111497)
- Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell. Brotli flaw (CVE-2026-111497) blast radius affects many libraries & apps using HTTPs.
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Stas Neyman at Akamai
What ARTEX Reveals About Overlooked Attack Surfaces -
ASEC
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Wade Wells at Black Hills Information Security
Detection Engineering: Stop Drowning in Alerts and Start Catching Bad Guys -
Rebecca Harpur at BlackFog
DarkCore: A Data-Theft RAT With a Session-Hijacking Browser -
Bob Rudis
Auditing the Auditors -
Brad Duncan at Malware Traffic Analysis
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Brian Krebs at ‘Krebs on Security’
Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site -
BushidoToken
UK Cybercrime Journal: Teenage Online Extremism Cases in 2026 -
CERT-AGID
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Chamindu Pushpika at ChamX
Inside a Romulus Campaign – How an MSI Drops a New LegionLoader Build -
Check Point
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Cisco’s Talos
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ClearSky Cyber Security
Doppelgänger Russian Influence Campaign in Israel -
Christopher Patton, Bas Westerbaan, Trishna, and Jeremy Hartman at Cloudflare
8 eMudhra certificates are compromised. Here’s what you need to know -
Cofense
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Johanna Amann at Corelight
Detecting Compromised eMudhra Certificates with Zeek | Corelight -
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Uncovers New Agentic AI Campaigns -
CTF导航
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Cyfirma
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Ian Kretz at Datadog Security Labs
LiteLLM supply chain compromise: What you need to know -
Detect FYI
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Disconinja
Weekly Threat Infrastructure Investigation(Week43) -
Elastic Security Labs
How CVE-2026-73570 turns a Zimbra log file into remote code execution -
Bas van den Berg and Jos Huiting at Eye Research
Cooldown or compromise: the three-day rule for npm and PyPI -
F5 Labs
Unprompted: When AI Agents Expose Data Without an Attacker -
Gagan Jain at FalconFeeds
ShinyHunters: From Stolen Databases to Global Data Extortion – Attacks, Tactics and Threat Intelligence in 2026 -
Jon DiMaggio at Flare
Arachnophobia: How Fear, Branding, and Bad Attribution Distorted The Com -
Sébastien Féry at FoxIO
Header Accordions: QPACK amplification attacks against HTTP/3 servers – FoxIO | Cyber Innovation -
Group-IB
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Halkyn Security
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Hunt IO
Ukraine’s State Data-Exchange System Targeted by Russian-Speaking Operator via Graylog Log4Shell -
Huntress
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Intel 471
Building a Hunt Team the SOC Can Rely On -
iVerify
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Jeffrey Bell at Catching Phish
You’re not that guy, PAL -
JPCERT/CC
Recent AI-Assisted Cyber Attacks in Japan: Investigating Attack Infrastructure and Techniques -
Kroll
Data Breach Outlook 2026: The Third-Party Domino Effect -
LevelBlue SpiderLabs
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Microsoft Security
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Ucha Gobejishvili at Mitiga
Hunting Third-Party App Abuse in Entra -
Natto Thoughts
The ZRON Leak, Part 2: What China’s Police Actually Bought and Where AI Fit In -
Oleg Skulkin at ‘Know Your Adversary’
419. Threat Actors Leverage Multiple Techniques to Obtain Credentials in Linux -
OpenSourceMalware
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Raymond Ebonine at OSINT Team
Anatomy of a Fake Job Offer: How I Investigated a LinkedIn Recruiter Malware Campaign -
Moshe Siman Tov Bustan and Vitalii Chepurko at OX Security
LiteLLM 1.107.0 Compromised With A RAT InfoStealer -
Palo Alto Networks
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Alisha Kadam at Point Wild
Q3 2026 Windows Cyber Threat & Malware Landscape Report -
Prashant Sheshnaryan Pawar at Qualys
The Science of Exploitability: Decoding BlueHammer -
Rapid7
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John P. Mello Jr. at ReversingLabs
Graphalgo campaign moves upstream into infrastructure as code -
Ridgeline Cyber
Your Break-Glass Account Is Excluded From Every Policy. It Still May Not Get You In. -
SANS Internet Storm Center
Orphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files: YARA Rule, (Sun, Oct 18th) -
Sansec
deepveindrilling.com: Magento CMS block loader hits 953 stores -
Securelist
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Security Alliance
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Akshay Gaikwad and Aaron Beardslee at Securonix
TRUST#GRAFT : JavaScript-Compromised Sites Target WordPress Admin Browsers to Deploy a Persistent PHP Backdoor -
Sekoia
Sekoia Honeypot Captures an Attack on GenAI Infrastructure -
Socket
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Yağmur Ernalbant at SOCRadar
New LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack Hits PyPI and Docker -
Sophos
- ConnectWise Cloud Backup application abused in cross-tenant token sweep
- Beyond the mailbox: Graph reconnaissance and ServiceNow user enumeration in a modern identity intrusion
- BRONZE SANDCASTLE deploys modified Meterpreter shells
- Web App Owners – You’re on Notice. Your Low-Hanging Fruit Just Got Lower
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Splunk
What an Agentic Attack Looks Like in Splunk Attack Range -
Alastair Parr at Spur Intelligence
Beyond the Traffic Count: How to Interpret and Act on Monocle Session Enrichment Data -
Step Security
- OpenCode Security Breach: Distillation Attack Hit Console Users With Linked AI Providers. How to Find OpenCode on Developer Machines and Respond
- litellm 1.107.0 Compromised on PyPI: Backdoored Wheels Drop a Credential Stealer and an Hourly Remote Code Loader
- eMudhra / emSign CA Compromise: What Python, pip, and CI/CD Users Need to Update
- OVHcloud CLI Compromised via GitHub Release Swap: Detonating the Real GlassWorm Loader and What We Found
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Stephan Berger
Field Notes: Reconstructing an Attacker’s Workflow -
Marco A. De Felice aka amvinfe at SuspectFile
Leadec Targeted by Anubis: 4 TB of Allegedly Stolen Data and an Initial $6 Million Ransom Demand -
Symantec Enterprise
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Sysdig
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Team Cymru
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The Hunter’s Ledger
Help Desks to Host Shells Across Brazil’s Public Sector -
ThreatMon
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Joe Chen and John Fokker at Trellix
What’s left standing when containment mode shuts everything down? -
Umut Bayram at Picus Security
Famous Chollima APT Group: Major Activities, TTPs, and Simulation -
Anton Cherepanov and Peter Strýček at WeLiveSecurity
MythicRatatoskr: An Yggdrasil-enabled backdoor deployed in a UAC-0099-Sandworm collaboration -
Wiz
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Nicolás Chiaraviglio at Zimperium
Beyond the Sandbox: Leveraging Android Intrusion Logs to Expose Advanced Threats -
ZScaler
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Блог Solar 4RAYS
RFRx003: ранее неизвестный бэкдор замечен в атаках на IT-компании
Upcoming events/webinars
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ADF Solutions
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Black Hills Information Security
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Brett Shavers
I’ve Spent Nearly 40 Years Learning How to Teach. Now I’m Putting My Investigative Methods Under the Microscope. -
Cellebrite
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Robert Fly at Detections.ai
Detections.ai – Enterprise Walkthrough -
Huntress
_declassified | Ep.4 Follow the Money: How Your Stolen Data is Banking the Black Market -
Magnet Forensics
Mobile Unpacked S4:E2 // Harping on health data -
Spur Intelligence
Inside Doppelganger: How Malware Turns Compromised Devices into a Criminal Proxy Network
Presentations/podcasts
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Belkasoft
BelkaGPT Architecture Explained – Purpose-Built AI for DFIR | Belkasoft X -
Black Hills Information Security
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Huntress
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InfoSec_Bret
IR – SOC145 – Ransomware Detected (2026) -
Karsten Hahn at Malware Analysis For Hedgehogs
PortexAnalyzer GUI v1.0.0 – Interactive visualization of PE files -
Magnet Forensics
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Monolith Forensics
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Open Source Forensics Lab
Using LAVA to Triage Forensic Investigations | LEAPPs Forensics -
OpenSourceMalware
The OpenSourceMalware Show #26 -
Paraben Corporation
Micro Webinar – Unified Multi-Source Data Analysis & Auto-Examination -
Parsing The Truth: One Byte at a Time Podcast
S2 E15: TN vs Ahmad Gatlin: Part 5 -
Patrick Wardle at Objective-See
Heartbreaker 💔 -
Team Cymru
Financial services’ Amanda Lerner, Ph.D. on Why Russian Is Still the Lingua Franca of Cybercrime -
THE AI & Security Insights Show
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Three Buddy Problem
Malware analysis
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Carter Perez at Lisdex
Vivisection of an Active Russian-Market Spyware Malware-as-a-Service and Its PyMapper Distribution Chain -
Shmuel Uzan at Morphisec
Same Vulkan Host, Different Payload: Inside VulcanRAT207.B -
Aman Singh Gill at OSINT Team
Reverse Engineering LockBit 3.0 Ransomware — From Encrypted Binary to Full Dissection -
Pepe Berba
MacOS Infostealer “adapts” to new Keychain Protection -
RexorVc0
Inside DarkVision RAT -
Bernardo Quintero at VirusTotal
How Some Malicious AI Skills Hide Instructions from Reviewers -
Zhassulan Zhussupov
Reversing embedded WebAssembly: part 3. Recovering native cross-references from WAMR relocations in pure C.
Miscellaneous
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Cellebrite
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Christopher Eng at Ogmini
BSides NYC 0x06 – CTFd Challenges -
Kevin DeLong at Cyber Social Hub
Making AI Defensible: What Every Examiner Should Take From the DFRWS Practitioner Report · The Cyber Social Hub -
Fabian Mendoza at DFIR Dominican
DFIR Jobs Update – 10/19/26 -
Forensic Focus
- Atola TaskForce Gets A Massive Update Including A New Compare Module
- Investigating WMI Permanent Event Subscription Persistence
- How Semantics 21 Is Changing The Way Investigators Work With Digital Evidence
- Passware Kit 2026 v4 Simplifies BitLocker Decryption And Adds E01 Export
- Detego Global Strengthens Its Presence In Brazil With Detego Day São Paulo 2026
- MD-RED v4: AI-Powered Mobile Forensic Analysis, From Raw Evidence To Case Insight
- Forensic Focus Digest, 23 Oct 2026
- Cellebrite Genesis vs. ChatGPT: Why You Need Purpose-Built Investigative AI
- Amped Podcast Episode 4 – User Needs, Forensic Minds: How New Features Are Born
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Andrew Garrett at Garrett Discovery
“Digital Forensics Corp.” allegedly sold $60 million in fake investigations to sextortion victims. A federal judge just froze its assets. -
Alexis Brignoni at LEAPPs Blog
DFIR Thoughts: Put AI in the code, not the conclusions -
Kevin Schell at Paraben Corporation
Why Digital Evidence Needs a Behavioral Read, Not Just a Technical One -
Sekoia
ISOC, AI Agents, And The New Shape Of Security Operations
Software releases/updates
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Akhil Dara
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Andrew Rathbun
KAPE-EZToolsAncillaryUpdater 4.6 -
Arkime
v6.9.1 -
Arman Gungor at Metaspike
Enterprise Remediation with Obliterator 3 -
Binalyze
Binalyze AIR 5.29 -
Jordan Wiens at Binary Ninja
6.0 Release 2 -
C. Peters
ALEX 0.7 -
David Augros
sigwood v1.2.0 -
DFIR-IRIS
IRIS-Web v3.0.0-beta.18 -
Digital Sleuth
winfor-salt v2026.13.3 -
Eric Zimmerman
2026.10 (October 2026) -
Erik Hjelmvik at Netresec
CapLoader 2.2 Released -
Get-Sybers
DX_DFIR v0.7.0 — flat per-asset lane output + evidence-asset identity -
LEAPPs
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Mandiant
flare-floss v4.0.0-alpha.2 -
OpenCTI
7.261023.1 -
Passware
Passware Kit 2026 v4 Now Available -
Rory Wagner
Hayabusa-Bulk-Runner v0.10.0 -
Yaniv Radunsky
DFIR Companion v0.44.0
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