Threat Intelligence Researches. From Our Analysts.
Threat intelligence research from Brandefense: threat actors, malware, vulnerabilities and campaigns, with analysis you can use to prioritize defenses.
Threat Intelligence Researches Cyber Threat Landscape Outlook: November 2026 to April 2027 Cyber threat landscape outlook for 31 October 2026 to 30 April 2027: what is most likely, what costs most, warning signs and five defenses. 
Threat Intelligence Researches STIX 2.1 by Example: One Indicator, Line by Line Build STIX 2.1 examples with validated JSON. Add relationships, manage versions and expiry, and learn what validation cannot prove before import. 
Threat Intelligence Researches CVE Statistics 2026: 86,533 Records So Far and What Is Driving Them NVD lists 86,533 CVEs published in 2026 by 25 October, against 48,151 in all of 2025. See the numbers, the drivers and how to triage. 
Threat Intelligence Researches HTTP2Shell: One Brotli Flaw, Many Stacks and Their Fixes HTTP2Shell is CVE-2026-111497, the Brotli decoder flaw first called Node2Shell. See which stacks have a fix, the version to run and how to find Brotli. 
Threat Intelligence Researches How to Defend Against PHP2Shell A practical PHP2Shell mitigation guide: prove the patch is running, see what each temporary control stopped in our lab and which detections caught what. 
Threat Intelligence Researches Node2Shell: Node.js Brotli RCE (CVE-2026-111497), Fixed Versions and How to Check Node2Shell, or HTTP2Shell (CVE-2026-111497), is a Node.js Brotli RCE flaw. Fixed in 22.23.4, 24.22.1 and 26.12.1. See who is exposed and what to do. 
Threat Intelligence Researches PHP2Shell Timeline: The First 60 Hours, in Data PHP2Shell timeline of the first 60 hours: Japan's PM post, a Sophos correction, notable X and dark web posts, and our own counts and check data. 
Threat Intelligence Researches PHP2Shell: Two Critical PHP Flaws Reported as RCE, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 PHP2Shell is the name for two critical flaws in PHP itself, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. PHP released fixes on 21 October 2026. Here is what is confirmed,… 
Threat Intelligence Researches Remote support and file transfer flaws in ransomware attacks SimpleHelp, CrushFTP, GoAnywhere and BeyondTrust flaws were flagged by CISA for ransomware use in 2025 and 2026. Dates, fixes, attribution and checks. 
Threat Intelligence Researches Five edge VPN flaws CISA flags for ransomware use Five VPN and firewall flaws added to CISA KEV in 2025 and 2026 carry a ransomware flag. Dates, fixed versions and what to check on your… 
Threat Intelligence Researches Two Fortinet events of 2026: what to check Fortinet had two 2026 events: a January SSO login flaw and a June wave of leaked logins. See what a firewall owner checks, from SSO to… 
Threat Intelligence Researches A contractor repo and cloud keys: CISA’s lessons A contractor's personal GitHub repository exposed CISA's cloud keys. What it says about uploads, rotating all admin access and having a playbook ready. All 14 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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