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DHS Probes Intrusion Into HSIN, the Federal Info-Sharing Platform

The Homeland Security Information Network was compromised, according to the department. Attribution remains open. The exposure question is bigger than the intrusion itself.

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Threat Intelligence

BEC Isn't an Email Problem. It's a Supply Chain.

Underground forums reveal Business Email Compromise as a multi-stage operation built on account access, target research, and cash-out networks, not a clever phishing lure.

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Threat Intelligence

From Modded Game Controllers to IBM X-Force Red: The Chris Thompson Arc

A teenage hardware tinkerer grows up to run one of the most recognizable offensive-security brands in enterprise tech, then leaves to build something new.

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Threat Intelligence

Monday Brief: A DirtyClone Linux Bug, Turla's New Backdoor, and the Infostealer Churn

Old access paths, missed patches, and a fresh kernel flaw kept defenders busy. A roundup of what moved this week in the cybercrime ecosystem.

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Threat Intelligence

Week in Brief: Russia's Cellebrite Use, Five Eyes AI Warning, macOS Backdoor, Scattered Spider Pleas

State-backed mobile forensics against an activist, an intelligence alliance's AI advisory, a new Mac implant, and a cybercrime case moving toward sentencing.

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Threat Intelligence

Hotel Front Desks Hit by Photo-ZIP Phishing Dropping Node.js Implant

Microsoft flags an unattributed campaign active since April 2026 against hospitality targets in Europe and Asia.

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Threat Intelligence

Mistic Backdoor Shows Up in IAB-Brokered Intrusions Across Four Verticals

A quiet new implant tied to the KongTuke access broker is landing on insurance, education, IT, and professional services networks, and it's not riding a CVE to get there.

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Threat Intelligence

Law Enforcement and Microsoft Tear Down Command Infrastructure Behind Amadey and StealC

Hundreds of C2 servers went dark in a coordinated takedown targeting the shared hosting backbone used by two prolific infostealer families.

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Threat Intelligence

AryStinger Quietly Conscripts 4,300 Old Routers Into a Recon Proxy Fabric

Researchers say the malware skips the usual DDoS playbook and instead builds infrastructure for pre-breach reconnaissance.

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Threat Intelligence

Clipper Crew Buys Sponsored Posts on News Sites to Push Trojanized Crypto Tools

An untracked actor is laundering credibility through paid press placements, a phishing-grade WordPress hub, and seeded GitHub and SourceForge repos to deliver clipboard hijackers.

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Threat Intelligence

The Cybercrime Economy Is Looking a Lot Like SaaS

A leaked worm kit, a $5K/month browser-cloning RAT, and AI agents handing over real credentials: the criminal stack is industrialising.

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