Digital Risk Protection. From Our Analysts.
Digital risk protection articles: brand impersonation, phishing and fake domains, data leaks and fraud, and how to detect and remove them early.
Digital Risk Protection Free Domain Security Checks: DMARC, TLS and Exposed Assets in One Afternoon Eight free domain checks with the exact commands: DMARC, SPF, DKIM, MTA-STS, TLS, CAA, certificate logs and security.txt, run on our own domain.
Digital Risk Protection How the Phishing Takedown Process Works, Step by Step Who controls a phishing page, what ICANN's 2024 rules require and how to escalate: the phishing takedown process as an operator's playbook.
Digital Risk Protection Typosquatting: How Lookalike Domains Catch Your Users Typosquatting turns one mistyped letter into a phishing site. See the main patterns, how attackers use them and how to spot and remove them early.
Blog MFA Doesn’t Protect You — Cookies Give You Away: The Rise of Session Hijacking Session hijacking allows attackers to bypass MFA by stealing authentication cookies. Discover how it works and how to detect stolen session tokens before exploitation.
Blog Mobile App Impersonation: How a Fake Version of Your App Steals Your Users Fake mobile apps replicate your brand to steal user credentials, financial data, and trust. Discover how attackers build, distribute, and monetize clone apps—and how to stop…
Digital Risk Protection 1 Million User Records Exposed: A Deep Dive into the Komiko AI App Data Breach A massive Komiko AI data breach exposed over 1 million users, including OAuth tokens and session data—creating critical account takeover risks. Here’s what happened and how…
Digital Risk Protection Looking at Your Company Through the Eyes of an Attacker: What Is an Attacker’s-Eye View? What does your organization look like from the outside? An Attacker’s-Eye View reveals exposed assets, forgotten subdomains, misconfigurations, and threat intelligence signals attackers exploit first.
Digital Risk Protection MCP Server Security: 10 Protocol-Level Attack Scenarios Behind the “Install and Run” Speed MCP servers enable fast AI integrations—but they also introduce new protocol-level risks. Explore 10 attack patterns, real-world CVEs, and how to secure MCP adoption with governance…
Digital Risk Protection EASM Best Practices for the Energy Sector The energy sector faces rising cyber risks from APTs, ransomware, and AI-driven threats. Discover how to secure your infrastructure with effective EASM strategies—from continuous asset discovery…
Digital Risk Protection Caught in a Phishing Storm: Here’s How to Regain Control Phishing attacks are evolving with advanced techniques that bypass traditional defenses. Learn how Brandefense provides real-time phishing detection and takedown to safeguard brand reputation and customer…
Digital Risk Protection Living off the Land: The Cyberattack You’ll Never See Coming Living off the land (LotL) attacks explained: how attackers abuse legitimate tools such as PowerShell and WMI, plus detection strategies and defense steps.
Digital Risk Protection Digital Twins: The Virtual Powerhouses Reshaping Cybersecurity Digital twins in cybersecurity explained: virtual replicas of systems used to model behavior, simulate attacks and find vulnerabilities safely. All 11 pages
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.