cyber-attacks
How real breaches actually happened — step by step.
Plain-language incident write-ups: the entry point, the lateral movement, the mistake that let it spread, and what would have stopped it.
AutoJack: one booby-trapped web page hijacks an AI agent for host code execution
Step by step, how a hidden instruction inside ordinary page content turned an AI browsing agent into a remote code execution vector.
A 36-hour ransomware timeline: from phishing email to full encryption
An hour-by-hour reconstruction of a mid-size manufacturer's breach, including the three points where it could have been stopped.
Regional outage traced to a 1.2 Tbps DDoS against a single load balancer
What made this attack different wasn't the volume — it was the timing, calibrated to coincide with a routine maintenance window.
The invoice email that bypassed three layers of email security
A breakdown of the formatting tricks and timing that got a convincing finance-themed phish past automated filters and a trained eye.
Operation Looking Glass: dismantling a cross-border C2 network
How a joint law enforcement operation across three countries took down infrastructure behind 14,971 compromised websites.
When the threat is already inside: an exfiltration case study
The access logs told the story weeks in advance. Here's what they showed, and why nobody connected the dots until it was almost too late.