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Forensic Analysis
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Brian Carrier at Cyber Triage
SOC Investigations at Machine Speed: Decision Making -
Oleg Afonin at Elcomsoft
iOS Acquisition Troubleshooting: Where The Logs Are? -
Hal Pomeranz at ‘Righteous IT’
Dealing With Binary Data In The Linux Shell -
Kevin Pagano at Hexordia
Unlocking iOS Sysdiagnose and Unified Logs: Hexordia Contributes New Parsers to iLEAPP -
Invictus Incident Response
Can You Investigate Claude Misuse? | Invictus Incident Response -
Alexis Brignoni at LEAPPs Blog
Reviewing, Tagging, and Exporting LEAPP Cases with LAVA -
Chad Gish at Magnet Forensics
That One Artifact: The video that mapped a murder -
Amber Schroader at Paraben Corporation
Avoiding AI Slop: A Digital Investigator’s Checklist for Quality Tools -
John Patzakis at X1 Discovery
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Problems Are Structural—and Growing
Threat hunting/threat intelligence
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Eliad Kimhy, Santiago Pontiroli, and Subhajeet Singha at Acronis
BOSSAI: Inside the AI attack mesh that targeted Taiwan’s emergency services -
Joe Leon at Aikido
Deleting a leaked key from your repo doesn’t protect you -
Aditya K Sood and Bikash Dash at Aryaka
Peeling Back the Layers of PowerShell Loader: Tracing a Multi-Stage Windows Payload Chain -
Christine Barry at Barracuda
Malware Brief: Trusted software, AI, and post-quantum ransomware -
BlackFog
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Siddhant Mishra at Bloo
SharpShooter v2.0: Deep-Dive Detection Guide -
Bob Rudis
IP-Lookup, Proxy-Judge, and Proxy-Pool Destinations to Hunt For in Your Logs -
Brian Krebs at ‘Krebs on Security’
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Bridewell
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BushidoToken
UK Cybercrime Journal: Beacon CRM Breach Impacts Over 1,500 Charities -
Censys
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CERT-AGID
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Chainalysis
DPRK Hackers Perfected Their Fake Interview Playbook Over Dozens of Attacks Before Binance -
Check Point
- 2nd November – Threat Intelligence Report
- Storm Ransomware Is Scaling Fast and Selling an AI Powered Image
- Free the Model, Sell the Gateway: Prompt Adware hidden in Jailbreak Bundles
- HYFLOCK Ransomware Evolves with New Builds and Encryption Weaknesses
- ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Bypass: Phishing, Malware Delivery, and Silent Data Exfiltration
- Hacking on Autopilot: Inside ARTEX Cybercrime Campaigns
- Inside ARTEX: How Autonomous AI Agents Are Being Used in Real-World Cyberattacks
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Chris Brumm
A second look at AuthCodeFix (ConsentFix) -
Lacie Blythe and Jaime Duque at CrowdStrike
How Adversaries Are Turning the Vulnerability Ecosystem Against Defenders -
Cyderes
UltraFinder Ran Document Macros During Content Search -
Cyfirma
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Cyllex
Introducing Argus: Threat Intelligence That Cites Its Sources -
DCSO CyTec
Cyber Conflict Briefing Q3 2026 -
Detect FYI
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Disconinja
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Dr. Massimiliano Dal Cero at DRIFT Linux
Dusk Network Botnet: React2Shell to an Ethereum C2 -
Dr. Neal Krawetz at ‘The Hacker Factor Blog’
AI-Enabled Scams -
Dr. Web
Insolence beyond belief. Threat actors target information security developers on GitHub -
Michael Rothschild at Dragos
Reverse Engineer Anything: What AI-Driven REA Means for Critical Infrastructure -
Kfir Fleischer at Dream
PHP2Shell: Helping Defend the Systems That Are Hardest to Patch -
Elastic Security Labs
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Eric J. Taylor at Barricade Cyber Solutions
WHisKEY and CloudDesk: Inside a Fake RMM Platform Handing Attackers SYSTEM Access -
Nadine Abdulkarim at Esentire
PHP2Shell: Two Critical PHP Flaws Explained -
FalconFeeds
- Stolen Credentials on the Dark Web: A Step-by-Step Fix for Compromised Logins and Session Cookies
- Ransomware Protection in 2026: The Shift From Recovery Plans to Early Detection
- Data Leaks vs. Data Breaches: Key Differences, Cybersecurity Risks, and a Threat Intelligence Breakdown
- Binance Hack 2026: Inside the $6.3 Billion Crypto Heist, Historical Security Breaches, and the Future of Exchange Security
- PHP Vulnerabilities in 2026: From Historical Exploits to Emerging Threats and Real-World Business Impact
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Assaf Morag at Flare
Inside a Microsoft Lookalike Domain Masquerading as Czech Company’s IT Department Infrastructure -
Flashpoint
Inside BTMob: How a Source Code Leak Expanded Access to a Mobile RAT -
Florian Roth
The Tipping Point: When Cyber Attacks Stop Being Limited by People -
Daniel Beneš at Gen
BillBait: When SMS autofill comes with a subscription -
Google Cloud Threat Intelligence
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Group-IB
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Halkyn Security
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Stephan Meza at Hunt & Hackett
Investigating BEC at two speeds -
Hunt IO
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Infrawatch
10.3K Exposed Fridges: Shared Suppliers and Residential Proxies -
Niklas Kerner at Insinuator
Token Theft in Microsoft Entra ID (Part 4 of 4): OAuth 2.0 Standard Gaps -
Intel 471
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Ruben Madar at Intrinsec
Malicious browser extensions ecosystem overview -
Yuval Moravchick and Natan Nehorai at JFrog
bREACHYing the Perimeter: How One HTTP Request can Hijack your AI Robot -
Jonathan Cran at Mallory
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Konrads Klints
The malware is gone. Where did it call back? -
Adam Goss at Kraven Security
CU-GIR: How to Use the Cyber Underground General Intelligence Requirements to Get Ahead of Cybercrime -
Layer3 Intel
Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network -
Malbear Labs
Operation Snowball: Inside an Autonomous AI Intrusion Campaign -
Bastian Eymery and Neal Swaelens at Manifold
Introducing the Agent Incident Ledger: AI agents gone wrong -
Microsoft Security
- What exploited vulnerabilities have in common: A data-driven analysis of real-world attacks
- Fake-download campaign uses trojanized installers to deliver monetization payloads
- Threat actors use agentic AI tooling to find and abuse exposed secrets
- Email threat landscape: Q3 2026 trends and insights
- ARTEX abuse expands as cybercriminals target financial sector
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MII Cyber Security
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Ray Fernandez at Moonlock
Fake Homebrew installer linked to record-breaking $6.3 billion Binance heist -
Natto Thoughts
The ZRON Leak, Part 3: What Does It Take for a Little Fish to Survive Among Sharks? -
Ganesh Sunkari at Netenrich
Payment API Abuse: How AI Turns Leaked Keys Into Payouts -
Thomas Elling at NetSPI
Leveraging Microsoft Graph API Change Notifications for Data Exfiltration -
Felix Hartmond at NVISO Labs
Detection Engineering: Implementing Detection-as-Code in an Existing Environment: Part 2 – Execution -
Ohad Zaidenberg
Patch by Evidence, Not by Severity -
Okta
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Oleg Skulkin at ‘Know Your Adversary’
421. Threat Actors Abuse Power BI to Bypass Defenses -
OpenSourceMalware
Why Conventional Reputation Feeds Miss Software Supply Chain Attacks -
Ashraf Gamal at OSINT Team
Automated SigmaHQ to Wazuh XML Rule Conversion -
Moshe Siman Tov Bustan at OX Security
PolinRider Returns: Hijacked npm Packages Use Ethereum Blockchain to Conceal Malware Infrastructure -
Palo Alto Networks
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Alphie Champion at Phorion
Browser Cache Smuggling on macOS: Reproducing and Defending the Technique -
Prodaft
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Profero
Inside the AI Operator -
Luke Jennings at Push Security
Fake event invites combine Kali365 and VoidProxy payloads -
Qi’anxin X Lab
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Ransom-ISAC
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Rapid7
Additional Ivanti Connect Secure zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-111357, CVE-2026-118527) -
Tristano Di Liberto at at ReliaQuest
Ransomware and Cyber Extortion in Q3 2026 -
Scott Helme at Report URI
SuperPixel: The Card Skimmer Hiding Inside Your Own jQuery -
Rick Martin
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Ridgeline Cyber
What Revoke Sessions Actually Stops in Microsoft Entra ID -
Robin Dost at Synaptic Systems
You’ve Got Spam: The Kyiv Independent Hack -
Tim Geschwindt and Gavin Hull at S-RM
Artex in the wild: Lessons from responding to agentic AI attacks -
SANS Internet Storm Center
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Securelist
- CyberStrikeAI in the wild: the use of AI in real-world attacks on organizations
- MLEP in KICS for Networks 5.0: how machine learning helps track network behavior of OT devices
- The SOC Files 5: Ghost in the pipeline, or a fileless SharePoint breach by Storm-2603
- Virtualization security: attack layers and misconfiguration impact
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Security Alliance
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Security Scorecard
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Pedro Tavares at Segurança Informática
Recorteiro: a Rust banking trojan that cuts holes in your screen and hides behind fake electricity bills in Portugal -
Sekoia
Poisoned Source: APT29 Watering Holes Targets Mobile Devices -
Tom Hegel at SentinelOne
Defrost and Disrupt | An Assessment of Europe’s Refrigeration Attacks -
Sumedh Barde at Simbian
Indirect Prompt Injection: How Logs Can Hijack AI SOC Agents -
Kush Pandya at Socket
Shai-Hulud Descendant Surfaces in Malicious Ruby Gem That Steals Credentials and Poisons AI Tools -
SOCRadar
Dark Web Profile: Nova Ransomware -
Mitch Pronschinske at Sophos
The State of Ransomware in Financial Services 2026 -
Sai Likhith at Step Security
Malicious Files: Find What Supply Chain Attacks Leave Behind in Your GitHub Repositories and on Developer Machines -
Stephan Berger
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Sygnia
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Symantec Enterprise
New Lindnor Backdoor and Glut of Security Killers Used in Ransomware Attack on U.S. Org -
System Weakness
Detecting AMSI Bypass Attempts: A Blue Team Guide -
Tehtris
Deobfuscating the ToRat malware -
ThreatBreach
Is Your Package Malicious ? -
ThreatMon
- The Fake Zero-Day Trap: How a Crypto Exploit Became a Wallet Hijacking Scheme
- Inside ARTEX: AI-Powered Intrusions, Cloud Compromise, and Cyber Espionage
- 82,478 Rows and a Google Drive Folder: How One C2 Server Pulled Data From Mexican Organizations
- A Typo, a Leaked Token and Booby-Trapped Go Packages: Inside the CCDS C2 Server
- Ransomware 2026 Report October
- Make $500 in 30 Minutes”: The Fake Changelly Exploit That Swaps Your Wallet Address
- An 82-Day Breach, a 38 GB Leak and a Gang That Was Supposed to Be Gone: October 2026 in Ransomware
- When the Browser Talks to Your AI Agent: Inside the Claude Dispatch Flaw
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Nicholas Koken at Todyl
Stolen App Credentials, Real Access: An Actor Is Signing Into Entra ID and Azure DevOps as Your Workloads -
Trellix
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Richard Grainger at Triskele Labs
State of Cyber 2025 – DFIR -
Sina Kheirkhah at watchTowr Labs
Barracuda Networks is your new best friend (Barracuda Email Security Gateway Pre-Auth Remote Root RCE CVE-2026-116606 / CVE-2026-111560) -
Joff Thyer at White Knight Labs
Exploiting PHP Foundational Vulnerabilities -
Heath Moodie at Xintra
Could consequence modelling have stopped Ukraine’s APT grid attacks? -
Блог Solar 4RAYS
AppTrickster. История одной неудавшейся уязвимости
Upcoming events/webinars
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ADF Solutions
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Black Hills Information Security
Follow the Sign-in: Entra ID (Azure AD) investigations in the SIEM -
Blackberry
Can Your Team Still Coordinate When Your Systems Are Isolated? -
Magnet Forensics
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Joe Toley at Spur Intelligence
Uncovering the Infrastructure Behind AI Traffic -
Sygnia
Cyber Insurance in Practice: What to Know Before an Incident
Presentations/podcasts
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Gerald Auger at Simply Cyber and Jessica Hyde at Hexordia
How Do You Keep Digital Evidence Admissible in Court? -
Blue Team بالعربي
Beyond the Alert: Build A SOC Investigation Through Pivoting EP1 -
Cyber Social Hub
How to Create an Acquisition of iOS and Android Devices in ADF Pro and MDI -
Huntress
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John Hammond
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Magnet Forensics
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast
PHP2Shell: What’s Real, What’s Noise, and What Actions to Take -
Monolith Forensics
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Off By One Security
Off By One Security: Open Session! -
Open Source Forensics Lab
LEAKED OFFICIAL SECURITY + PBQ: Determine the Infected Endpoints Forensics Walkthrough -
OpenSourceMalware
The OpenSourceMalware Show #28 -
Paraben Corporation
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SANS
Stop Blaming Humans: Rethinking Security Culture with John Scott -
SANS Cyber Defense
You Can’t Fight What You Don’t Understand: The Quantum Threat Demystified for Security Practitioners -
Team Cymru
Paul McCarty & Jenn Gile on how 540 packages under one maintainer expose a supply chain blind spot -
THE AI & Security Insights Show
The AI & Security Insights Show – Episode 299 – Sentinel and ISOC -
The Weekly Purple Team
Who Smuggled That In? It Wasm’t Me.
Malware analysis
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ExaTrack
SectopRat’s GPULoader and VMLoader -
Cara Lin at Fortinet
BITTER Expands Its Arsenal with PapRAT -
Lenny Zeltser
Designing a Malware Analysis Lab With REMnux -
Shmuel Uzan at Morphisec
From Business Emails to XLoader: An Order Lure That Led to In-Memory Injection -
Adithya V at Secjuice
Practical Malware Analysis: A Beginner Takes On Salat Stealer -
Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro and Aleksandar Milenkoski at SentinelOne
VerifiedIDA | Making LLM-Driven Reverse Engineering Inspectable, Continuable and Reusable -
Seqrite
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Shubho57
Analysis of an ELF file (Open Directory and a SH file) -
WeLiveSecurity
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Zhassulan Zhussupov
Malware development trick 68: Module overloading. Simple C example -
Шифровальщики-вымогатели The Digest “Crypto-Ransomware”
CocaWare
Miscellaneous
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Belkasoft
The Silent Observer: Forensic Analysis of Apple Unified Logs -
Brett Shavers
My last writing on WinFE. Probably. -
Cellebrite
Managing CSAM Investigations at Scale: How AI-Powered Triage Is Transforming Child Protection -
Giuseppe Scalzi at Compass Security
Security Monitoring of AI Agents in Microsoft Defender XDR -
Decrypting a Defense
Data Breach Leads to Criminal Accusations, Fighting Surveillance Procurement, 4th Cir. Cell Site Simulator Decision & More -
Henri Hambartsumyan at Falcon Force
Dissecting WerFault -
Forensic Focus
- AI For Investigations: 5 Myths, Debunked
- How Detego Global’s AI Technology Is Transforming Child Abuse Investigations
- Forensics Europe Expo 2027 Returns To Excel London With Expanded Opportunities For Forensic Professionals
- Forensics Forward 2026 (Online, November 10): A Global Day Of Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity And Law
- CCTV Review Under Pressure: How S21 CCTV Helps Investigators Find What Matters Faster
- Dead Ends And Data Recovery: The Importance Of Remaining Tool Agnostic In Digital Forensics
- Page One’s Rob Fried And Andrew Milauskas On Using AI In Digital Forensics And E-Discovery
- Forensic Focus Digest, 06 Nov 2026
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Jason Yung
由Azure Sentinel+Logic App+AI砌一套自動化 SOC Playbook — 第二篇: phishing email response playbook -
Kevin Pagano at Stark 4N6
Forensics StartMe Updates (November 2026) -
Open Source DFIR
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Crystal Morin at Sysdig
Refreshing the 555 Benchmark for Cloud Detection and Response in the AI era
Software releases/updates
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AppliedIR
Valhuntir v0.6.6 -
Belkasoft
Belkasoft X 2.13: A Sneak Peek -
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Assemblyline 4.8.0.1 -
CCL Solutions
RabbitHole v4 launches with additional data formats and enhanced SQLite forensics -
Digital Sleuth
winfor-salt v2026.14.8 -
Doug Burks
so-crates v5.2.0 -
Doug Metz at Baker Street Forensics
The Next Evolution: MalChela on Windows -
Ghassan Elsman
Crow-Eye v0.15.0 — Sentinel Glance -
Intrinsec
OrcDecryptNet: a .NET decryptor for DFIR-ORC archives -
Konrads Klints
cryptnet-dump v1.0.0 -
LEAPPs
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Magnet Forensics
- New ways to scale investigations with Graykey Fastrak
- Scale your forensic workflows with Magnet Automate 5.2
- Magnet Graykey 2: Expanding the capabilities of mobile investigations
- Magnet Axiom 10.5: Investigate more evidence with greater confidence
- Magnet Witness 2.0: Expanded enhancement, large-case performance, and improved reporting
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Marco Neumann
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North Loop Consulting
Arsenic Mobile Triage v4 -
OpenCTI
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Phil Harvey
ExifTool 13.61 -
radare2
6.2.6 -
Rory Wagner
Hayabusa-Bulk-Runner v0.12.0 -
Security Onion
Security Onion 3.4.0 Now Available including Agentic AI Automations! -
SigmaHQ
pySigma v2.0.2 -
Toño Diaz
masstin v1.4.3 -
USB Detective
Version 1.7.0 (11/04/2026) -
Yaniv Radunsky
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Yogesh Khatri
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