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Forensic Analysis
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Belkasoft
Case Study: Investigating WhatsApp Desktop Activity on Windows with Belkasoft X -
Brian Carrier at Cyber Triage
How To Investigate with Automated DFIR Tools -
Forensafe
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Alexis Brignoni at LEAPPs Blog
KDL and AppWalk, two tools that work with the phone itself -
Steve Gemperle at Magnet Forensics
Investigating a remote IT worker scam: A field guide for DFIR teams -
Paraben Corporation
- Paraben Corporation Why Digital Evidence Needs a Behavioral Read, Not Just a Technical One
- Paraben Corporation Blockchain Forensics Is Only the Beginning
- Paraben Corporation Avoiding AI Slop: A Digital Investigator’s Checklist for Quality Tools
- Paraben Corporation Building an Autonomous Network Honeypot & Deception Matrix
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Mato Vlajčić, Luka Bračun, and Dino Bezić at Protokol-7
Defender’s hidden flight recorder: decrypting mpenginedb.db -
Ryan Benson at Hindsight Foundry
New Course: Browser Forensics for Security Analysts -
S.Nakano
The World Ends with ETW -
Will DePue at Unemployment Labs
Top Chinese Frontier AI Models Carry the Fingerprint of Export-Controlled NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs -
Yogesh Khatri at ‘Swift Forensics’
Siri app conversations
Threat hunting/threat intelligence
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Abnormal Security
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Oliver Smith at Aikido
wfx-loot campaign pushes CI secret stealer to tens of thousands of repositories -
Larry Cashdollar at Akamai
Dissecting StrikeStub: ClickFix PowerShell Malware and Modular RAT -
Arctic Wolf
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ASEC
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Ayelen Torello at AttackIQ
Enter 666: Unmasking Beast Ransomware -
CJ Moses at AWS Security
Amazon Threat Intelligence observes threat actors running cybercrime campaigns with ARTEX AI agents -
Christine Barry at Barracuda
Dire Wolf ransomware: An apex predator stalking your data -
Leron Gray at Bishop Fox
Inside Cirro: Enumeration as a Restricted Guest -
Jade Brown at Bitdefender
Bitdefender Threat Debrief | November 2026 -
Tibor Luter at Black Cell
Parsing raw AWS Cloudtrail logs to Splunk – Tutorial -
TJ Johnson at Black Hills Information Security
Log Analysis Field Guide: Tips for Spotting Patterns and Red Flags -
Blackpoint Cyber
RMM Tool Abuse: When Your Remote Access Becomes the Attack Path -
BleepingComputer
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Brad Duncan at Malware Traffic Analysis
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Brian Krebs at ‘Krebs on Security’
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Alex Gartner at Censys
ARTEX and AI Attack Tools: Why Threat Intelligence Must Originate From First-Party Data -
CERT-AGID
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Evenson Jeunesse at CERT-Wavestone
Anatomie d’une compromission « presque » invisible : Le SEO cloaking -
Chainalysis
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Check Point
- 9th November – Threat Intelligence Report
- From Water Systems to Supermarket Refrigerators: Inside Shahid Kaveh and CyberAv3ngers’ OT Attacks
- Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Tracking CopperDragon’s Sparrow Framework Around the Globe
- October 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: Record Ransomware, Rising GenAI Risk and an AI-Powered Newcomer
- PHP2Shell Exploitation on Check Point Gateway
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Cisco’s Talos
ARTEX and beyond: AI-enabled penetration testing platforms -
CloudSEK
Off the Rails: Inside an Exposed Silent Lynx Server -
James Lagermann at Corelight
The Supply-Chain Risk Hiding in Your MCP Servers | Corelight -
Cyble
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Rahul Ramesh and Baskar M at Cyderes
SignDrop Zero-Day Turns Windows CLFS Defense Into Privilege Escalation -
Cyfirma
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Raúl.R at Cyllex
Inside Cereal: Turla Reads Government Emails from the Exchange Server Itself -
Julie Agnes Sparks at Datadog Security Labs
On the hunt for ARTEX: understanding agentic attacks in AWS environments -
Eclypsium
Php2shell: A Network Edge Risk Playbook -
Elastic Security Labs
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Eric J. Taylor at Barricade Cyber Solutions
Able2Shell: Inside 33 Unpatched N-able N-central Vulnerabilities -
Bas van den Berg at Eye Research
Machine speed: how we defended against an AI-driven attack -
Fareed Fauzi
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Flare
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Flashpoint
How to Identify Ransomware Data Exposure Using Leaked File Trees -
Minaxi Parmar at Foregenix
EtherHiding Malware Explained: How Web3 Smart Contracts Threaten E-Commerce -
g0njxa
Approaching stealers devs: a brief interview with Stadia -
Gen
Poisoned AI Answers: How Scams Are Reaching Users Through Chatbots -
GitGuardian
- Beyond ARTEX: 45 Agentic Attack Frameworks, What They Hunt For, and How to Find Them
- An ARTEX build ships no secret scanner. In our lab, it found the secrets anyway
- AntiFox Targeting AWS Credentials: The Latest Wave of AI Agent Attacks
- A Valid Signature Isn’t Enough: Attributing and Validating Leaked JWTs
- wfx-loot: A CI Secret Stealer Pushed With Stolen GitHub Credentials
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GreyNoise
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Mansour Alhmoud at Group-IB
Inside The Server: 14 Months of Offensive Cyber Operations Targeting Europe -
Halkyn Security
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Maurice Fielenbach at Hexastrike
Aur0ra – An Xray Reverse Tunnel Hidden Inside Explorer After a Teams Vishing Call -
Hudson Rock
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Huntress
- Inside an AhsayCBS Intrusion: Hidden Webshells, a CryptoMiner, and a C2 Implant
- N-able Disables Cloud Services Following Disclosure of “Able2Shell” Exploit Chains
- Beyond the clipboard: The evolving tradecraft of ClickFix
- SCKit Worm Installs Rogue ScreenConnect Clients and Session Cookie Relays Across Hundreds of Endpoints
- Crafty Microsoft Teams Booking Flow Disguises Device Code Phishing
- GeoVision Camera Software Abused to Deploy XMRig Cryptominer
- Attackers use Crypto Exchange Names to Disguise Unauthorized Sessions on 100+ ScreenConnect Servers
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IC3
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iVerify
- Half-Click Attacks: How Online Ads Now Deliver iPhone Exploits
- An Exploit Inside an App Store App: What FomoPeek Means for “App Store Only” Policies
- Android RATs for Rent: Five Remote Access Trojans and the $150-a-Month Phone Takeover
- Coruna, DarkSword and the Enterprise iPhone: Key Takeaways from Packet Protector
- Dead Domains, Live Exploits: How Infected Ads and Expired Analytics Tags Deliver Coruna and DarkSword to iPhones
- iPhone Spyware Doesn’t Pick Its Targets Anymore
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Tom Neaves at LevelBlue SpiderLabs
Hiding In Plain Sight: Abusing Model Assumptions To Deceive & Attack Offensive AI Agents -
Manifold
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Microsoft Security
- Detecting sleeper agents hiding in AI model neurons
- The global socket: how threat actors are weaponizing GSocket for stealthy C2
- Lessons from 59 Linux Kernel Bug Reports
- Trained to betray: How post-training supply chain attacks hijack coding agents
- SCKit abuses ScreenConnect to deploy remote access and target technician sessions
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Ray Fernandez at Moonlock
Hackers came up with a new platform to manage ClickFix attacks -
Shmuel Uzan at Morphisec
Beyond the Signature: How Attackers Hide Malware in PE Certificate Tables -
Eric Brown at Nebulock
coreSigma 2.0: macOS Detection Rules Tested on Real Telemetry -
Netskope Threat Labs
Netskope Threat Labs Report: Manufacturing 2026 -
NVISO Labs
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Oleg Skulkin at ‘Know Your Adversary’
422. Kimsuky Uses AwardSpace Domains for C2 Infrastructure -
OpenSourceMalware
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Outpost24
Outpost24 Research Finds Infostealer Malware Affected 72% of Organizations With Exposed Credentials -
Moshe Siman Tov Bustan and Vitalii Chepurko at OX Security
Ethersphere Hijacked With Crypto Stealing Malware Via Github & npm -
Palo Alto Networks
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Benjamin Adolphi at Promon
Watching the apps we protect: How we found Hirudo by accident -
Rachel Rabin at Proofpoint
BluePhishing: Initial Access via Third-Party Agent Blueprint Consent -
Ellis Stannard, Marion H., M. Smith, Nick Smart, Olivier Ferrand, and Tenn S. at Ransom-ISAC
The Gentlemen Incident: Locked Out -
Recorded Future
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Joseph Keyes at ReliaQuest
Luna Moth Returns, Re-Targeting Law Firms Through Access Tokens -
Report URI
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Ridgeline Cyber
Device Code Phishing Uses Microsoft’s Real Sign-In Page. Here’s What Your Logs Still Show. -
SANS Internet Storm Center
- Scans for Sshole Vulnerability (CVE-2026-123158), (Sun, Nov 8th)
- Attackers Searching for SAP Netweaver Webshells, (Mon, Nov 9th)
- Apple Patches Everyting: November 2026 Edition, (Tue, Nov 10th)
- Microsoft Patch Tuesday November 2027 , (Tue, Nov 10th)
- Exploit Attempts for GPUStack Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-102895), (Thu, Nov 12th)
- Macfinger ClickFix campaign sends DownTheDRAIN infostealer for macOS, (Fri, Nov 13th)
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Sansec
Supply chain attack on Shopify apps sends shoppers to a fake checkout -
Securelist
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Security Alliance
SEAL weekly stats: 4-11 Nov, 2026 -
Sekoia
The Cold Chain on Fire : Unpatched Danfoss controllers exploited -
Simone Kraus
Fake Google Meet Updates, Abused RMM Tools, the AgtaBackup RAT Ecosystem & Campaign -
Socket
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SOCRadar
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Sophos
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Step Security
- WFX Phantom: The GitHub Actions Secret Stealer That Deletes Its Tracks
- CVE-2026-126187: React Server Components Flaw Lets Attackers Execute Code Through Smuggled Flight Rows
- The Take-Home Test That Runs on Your Work Laptop: Inside the AccuraSoftHire Fake Interview Campaign
- ARTEX: Attackers Adopted This AI Pentesting Tool in Three Months. Leaked Secrets Are Its Fastest Way In.
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Marco A. De Felice aka amvinfe at SuspectFile
Haise, Qilin’s Administrator: How Solid Is the Identification of Alexey Yakovtsev? Qilin Denies the Claims and Accuses GangExposed of Asking for $20,000 -
Symantec Enterprise
How AI Revived a Stalled Attack on a U.S. Retailer -
Joseph Harrison at The Hunter’s Ledger
An AI Pentest Platform Drives Commodity Tooling Against Portuguese Government Targets -
The Shadowserver Foundation
CastleRAT Historical Bot Infection Special Report (Stolen Credentials) -
Lauren Proehl at THOR Collective Dispatch
I leaked credentials on purpose for four months. Here’s who took them, and what they did next. -
ThreatMon
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Umut Bayram at Picus Security
Imperial Kitten (Tortoiseshell) APT: TTPs, Malware, and Attack Simulation -
WeLiveSecurity
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Zack Morrow, Sean Johnstone, and Benjamin Read at Wiz
Trusted by Default: Qubole Cross-Account Access Abused in the Wild -
Michael Wylie and Chuck Frey at ZScaler
High-Fidelity Threat Hunting Starts with Your Data Pipeline
Upcoming events/webinars
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ADF Solutions
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Steven Lim, Tim Peck, and Ethan Andrews at Detections.ai
Detections.ai and the KQL Wizard: A Live Discussion with Steven Lim -
Robert M. Lee and Rob T. Lee at Dragos
AI in OT: Adoption, Security, and the Changing Threat Landscape -
John Hammond
Payload Podcast 013 – Catchup -
Magnet Forensics
Cyber Unpacked S3:E6 // Busting the myths that are costing you evidence -
Markus Schober and Brian Carrier at Sleuth Kit Labs and Blue Cape Security
HOW TO USE AI TOOLS TO INVESTIGATE RANSOMWARE
Presentations/podcasts
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Adversary Universe Podcast
A Lesson in Cybersecurity Higher Ed with Fiserv’s Neil Schloth -
Blue Team بالعربي
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FBI
Ahead of the Threat Podcast: Season 3, Episode 2 – Stan Duijf and Paul Foster -
Huntress
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InfoSec_Bret
IR – SOC156 – Unnormal Code/Command Execution (2026) -
Magnet Forensics
AI Unpacked S2:E4 // The art and science of AI prompting in digital investigations -
Monolith Forensics
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Open Source Forensics Lab
Windows Registry Editing on Linux | RegEdLin vs RegistrySpy -
OpenSourceMalware
The OpenSourceMalware Show #29 -
Parsing The Truth: One Byte at a Time Podcast
TN vs Ahmad Gatlin: Part 7 -
Proofpoint
The Human Cost of Cyberattacks, with Critical Cyber’s Pavlina Pavlova -
Richard Davis at 13Cubed
What ShellBags NodeSlot Values Really Tell You -
Sandfly Security
Finding Mystrodx/ChronosRAT Linux Malware with Agentless Sandfly 6.0 -
SANS Cyber Defense
Preparing for Post Quantum Cryptography in 2026 -
SentinelOne
LABScon26 Replay | Let’s Get Physical: Why Cybersecurity Needs Hardware-Based Security to Survive AI -
The Defender’s Advantage Podcast
ARTEX and Friends: Enter Agentic Offensive Frameworks -
Three Buddy Problem
Malware analysis
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Adam at Hexacorn
Anti-AI tricks, Part 1 -
Any.Run
Formbook Targets European Manufacturing and Technology Businesses with Localized Order Lures -
Ialle Teixeira at Debugactiveprocess
MaldocTrace: Emulating Malicious Office Macros Without Running Them -
Fortinet
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IONSEC
The clock is still the key: INSITO, free recovery for Rhysida’s ESXi locker -
OSINT Team
Threat Analysis: AntSword Webshell Management Framework -
Shubho57
Analysis of a file which could be attributed to a APT group -
Zhassulan Zhussupov
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Rajat Goyal and Fernando Ortega at Zimperium
Uncovering ArcticRAT: The Evolution from Targeted Crypto-Stealer to AI-Powered Android RAT -
Шифровальщики-вымогатели The Digest “Crypto-Ransomware”
HYFLOCK
Miscellaneous
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⌛☃❀✵Gootloader Details ✵❀☃⌛
Five Years Chasing Gootloader -
Emi Polito at Amped
How to Present Image and Video Authentication Findings in Court with Amped Authenticate -
Elif Kurt at Binalyze
From Signal to Action: Introducing Automations in Binalyze AIR -
Brett Shavers
DFIR, AI, and an Unexpected Detour Into Vaginal Fluid -
F-Response
F-Response and Windows 11 25H2+, Windows 2025 Server – Update -
Forensic Focus
- New Magnet Forensics Report Highlights Challenges Shaping Public Sector Digital Investigations
- Android FCM Push Notification Artifacts: What Can Remain After An App Is Deleted
- Cyber Unpacked S3:E2 // IR Beyond Malware: Investigating Business Email Compromise And Fraud
- Belkasoft X v2.13 Arrives With Amplified BelkaGPT And MFT-Based File Recovery
- Forensic Focus Digest, 13 Nov 2026
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Intel 471
What to ask before you buy an AI agent for threat intelligence -
Lenny Zeltser
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Lesley Carhart
Let’s Talk About Why all This OT Stuff is Connected -
Magnet Forensics
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MISP
Guidelines for Building and Federating Cybersecurity Information-Sharing Communities
Software releases/updates
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13Cubed
Abeebus 2.2 -
Arkime
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Binalyze
Binalyze AIR 5.30 -
Crowdstrike
Falconpy Version 1.6.7 -
DFIR-IRIS
IRIS-Web v3.0.0-beta.23 -
Digital Sleuth
winfor-salt v2026.15.3 -
Doug Burks
so-crates v5.3.0 -
Ghassan Elsman
Crow-Eye v0.15.1 -
Ialle Teixeira
MaldocTrace v0.5.1 -
kano92-dir
binkeep v1.2: what it can do, .NET, Android and ZIP -
Lethal Forensics
MemProcFS-Analyzer v1.3.0 -
Martin Laffont
Vigie v0.5.0 -
North Loop Consulting
NLC Spectator v3! -
OpenCTI
7.261109.3 -
Phil Harvey
ExifTool 13.63 -
Sandfly Security
Log in to answers, not alerts: what’s new in Sandfly 6.0 -
SigmaHQ
pySigma v2.1.0 -
Toño Diaz
masstin v1.4.4 -
UTMStack
UTMStack v11.4.0 – Angular 17 frontend, security close-out, IR role model -
WithSecure Labs
Chainsaw v2.17.2-beta.0 -
Xways
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Yamato Security
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Yaniv Radunsky
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