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Threat actors, dark web activity, ransomware and digital risk, explained by the analysts who track them.

All497 APT Groups85 Dark Web31 Digital Risk Protection126 Fraud16 Ransomware51 Sector Analysis34 VIP Security7
Imbalanced scale illustrating security vendor risk outweighing its recorded TPRM scoreBlog Your Security Vendors Are Your Highest-Privilege Third Parties, and Your TPRM Program Scores Them Low Security vendors sit at the top of the privilege ladder, yet TPRM programs consistently score them low because certification substitution and category heuristics mask the real… Sep 14, 20269 Min Agentic ransomware concept: autonomous AI network operating without a humanBlog Agentic Ransomware: What Happens When Malware Doesn’t Need a Human Operator to Decide Who to Hit Next? A documented ransomware operation completed reconnaissance, credential theft, lateral movement, and encryption with no human operator at any stage. This analysis breaks down the JADEPUFFER intrusion… Sep 10, 202623 Min Abandoned digital assets: dark forgotten building with lit windows representing accessible, unmonitored infrastructureBlog When Abandoned Digital Assets Become Someone Else’s Infrastructure A 25-year-old wiki sat forgotten for years, then quietly became AI agent infrastructure: 18,000 posts in 52 days, unnoticed. Abandoned digital assets stay accessible and unmonitored… Sep 09, 202622 Min Business handshake overlaid with malicious red circuitry, representing OAuth consent phishing riskBlog No Vulnerability Was Exploited: Inside the SaaS Extortion Wave That Breaks In Through Consent, Not Code OAuth consent phishing let a single extortion group breach 1,000+ organizations without exploiting a CVE. See how attackers weaponize legitimate consent grants — and why MFA… Sep 08, 202627 Min Red risk signal frozen inside an ice block, representing a vendor risk snapshot trapped in an annual audit cycleBlog Continuous Monitoring vs. Annual Audit: Why the TPRM Calendar Is Broken Annual vendor audits produce a snapshot; vendor risk is a movie. See why the 364 days between formal assessments is where 48% of third-party breaches actually… Sep 03, 202623 Min A hand reaching through a vault-like gateway toward a glowing red key, symbolizing AI gateway exploitation and stolen credentialsBlog AI Gateway Exploitation: How Attackers Are Targeting LiteLLM, RAGFlow, and Kestra to Steal Your Model Provider Keys Three actively exploited AI orchestration platforms — LiteLLM, RAGFlow, and Kestra — are giving attackers a single entry point to every model provider credential an organization… Aug 31, 202620 Min Illustration of a phishing-as-a-service kit sold as a ready-to-use attack toolkitBlog Phishing-as-a-Service 2.0: The Kits That Bypass MFA Without a Fake Login Page Phishing-as-a-service kits like EvilTokens and Kali365 no longer need a fake login page. See how AiTM proxies and OAuth device code abuse bypass MFA, and what… Aug 28, 202619 Min Alarm clock glowing red representing the CRA reporting obligations 24-hour deadlineBlog CRA Reporting Obligations Now Apply: The 24-Hour Clock Starts When You Find Out From 11 September 2026, CRA reporting obligations require manufacturers to file an early warning within 24 hours of becoming aware that a product is being actively… Aug 27, 20268 Min Exploding filing cabinet representing the surge in published CVEs versus actual exploited riskBlog CVE Volume Is Exploding, But Is Your Risk? Making Sense of 2026’s Vulnpocalypse CISA KEV added 272 entries in 2026 by 23 October. See which flaws mattered and the four filters that replace volume-based triage. Aug 26, 20269 Min Clock face glowing red at the center, representing the pre-disclosure exploitation window before a patch existsBlog No Patch Exists Yet: Who Owns the Pre-Disclosure Window? Our H1 2026 analysis found that 32.1% of exploited vulnerabilities were attacked before a fix even existed. Patch velocity cannot close that window. See who should… Aug 24, 20269 Min API sprawl attack surface represented by a tangled web of exposed connectionsBlog API Sprawl: The Attack Surface Nobody Put On the Inventory API sprawl is not a documentation problem, it is a structural one. Shadow APIs, zombie APIs and inherited endpoints grow every week through normal engineering work,… Aug 21, 20269 Min Abstract red light trail in darkness representing a stealthy device code phishing attack that bypasses MFABlog Device-Code Phishing: The MFA Bypass Method Nobody’s Training Employees On Device code phishing defeats even hardware security keys and passkeys by hijacking OAuth's device authorization flow instead of stealing a password. It passes every awareness-training check… Aug 20, 20269 Min
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About The Blog.

Last updated June 9, 2026

  • Articles on ransomware, APT groups, the dark web, digital risk protection, fraud, sector analysis and VIP security, written for security teams.

  • New articles are added several times a month. The newest come first, and every article shows its publish date.

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  • The count at the top of the blog page shows the current total, and each topic chip shows how many articles that topic holds. You can open all of them or pick one topic, such as APT Groups, Dark Web, Ransomware or Fraud. Each article shows its publish date.

  • The blog describes its articles as explained by the analysts who track threats. They cover threat actors, dark web activity, ransomware and digital risk. The newest articles appear first.

  • Yes. APT Groups is one of the topic chips above the list, and it opens only the articles on that topic. The Knowledge Hub also holds profiles of threat groups.

  • The surface web is the part of the internet that search engines list. The deep web is content that search engines do not list, such as pages behind a login. The dark web needs special software to reach. The blog has an article that explains the three layers in plain words.