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March 4

15 min read

Inside Tycoon2FA: How a leading AiTM phishing kit operated at scale

Tycoon2FA has become a leading phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms, enabling campaigns that reach over 500,000 organizations monthly, prompting Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) to work with Europol and industry partners to facilitate a disruption of Tycoon2FA’s infrastructure and operations.
March 3

12 min read

Signed malware impersonating workplace apps deploys RMM backdoors

Signed malware backed by a stolen EV certificate deployed legitimate RMM tools to gain persistent access inside enterprise environments.
March 2

10 min read

OAuth redirection abuse enables phishing and malware delivery

OAuth redirection is being repurposed as a phishing delivery path.
February 26

8 min read

Threat modeling AI applications

AI threat modeling helps teams identify misuse, emergent risk, and failure modes in probabilistic and agentic AI systems.
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February 24

14 min read

Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.
February 24

4 min read

Scaling security operations with Microsoft Defender autonomous defense and expert-led services

AI-powered cyberattacks outpace aging SOC tools, and this new guide explains why manual defense fails and how autonomous, expert-led security transforms modern protection.
February 19

12 min read

Running OpenClaw safely: identity, isolation, and runtime risk

Self-hosted agents execute code with durable credentials and process untrusted input.
February 12

17 min read

Detecting and mitigating common agent misconfigurations

Agents are increasingly powerful. With that power comes risk: small misconfigurations, over‑broad sharing, unauthenticated access, and weak orchestration controls can create real exposure.
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February 10

15 min read

Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning

That helpful “Summarize with AI” button? It might be secretly manipulating what your AI recommends.
February 6

5 min read

Analysis of active exploitation of SolarWinds Web Help Desk

We are seeing exploitation of SolarWinds Web Help Desk via CVE‑2025‑40551 and CVE‑2025‑40536 that can lead to domain compromise; here is how to patch, hunt, and mitigate now.
February 5

9 min read

New Clickfix variant ‘CrashFix’ deploying Python Remote Access Trojan

CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.
February 2

14 min read

Infostealers without borders: macOS, Python stealers, and platform abuse

How modern infostealers target macOS systems, leverage Python‑based stealers, and abuse trusted platforms and utilities to distribute credential‑stealing payloads.

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