Cyber espionage and military cyber operations should be an entire course in cybersecurity degree programs.
A lot of defenders don’t fully understand the game they’re playing or the adversaries they’re playing against.
Generative AI will reduce patch diffing for 1 Day Exploits from hours to minutes.
Organizations must adopt rapid, high availability patching to endure this shift.
In today's Breach Please, me and Jess revisit the idea of detecting threat actors hiding in network devices to evade detection. This was inspired by a report from @sygnia_labs.
Real talk: how do YOU validate your network devices are free of malware?
There's unpatched pre-auth RCE in Log4j2. Latest version. There's no CVE and no patch.
But also, don't panic - this isn't Log4Shell all over again.
I tested 50+ products and couldn't find any exploitable ones.
More info, scanner, and rules here: jeffmcjunkin.com/posts/log4j…
Pretty interesting: retrieves the command-and-control (C2) domain from a blockchain smart contract. Instead of hardcoding the server address... queries multiple Polygon RPC endpoints defined in CONTRACT_CONFIG.RPC_HOSTS
levelblue.com/blogs/spiderla…
Dropping a new tool today: TTPRunner
- One-click Vectr deploy
- Give it a threat report, PDF, or just plain-english instructions and it'll build an execution & simulation plan for you
- Executions are tracked via notes and automatically sync'd with Vectr
Works great with: github.com/Antonlovesdnb/Con…
Check it out! 🔽
github.com/Antonlovesdnb/TTP…
Can LNK files ever be trusted?
⚡ My latest blog post demonstrates several new LNK abuse methods, allowing you to fully spoof the target shown in Explorer. It also introduces tools to create your own LNKs, and detected spoofed ones yourself.
🐬 wietzebeukema.nl/blog/trust-…
“Benchmarked frontier AI models on realistic SecOps tasks using Cotool’s agent harness and the Splunk BOTSv3 dataset. GPT-5 achieved the highest accuracy (63%), while Claude Haiku-4.5 completed tasks the fastest with strong accuracy.“
cotool.ai/blog/evaluating-ai…
PowerShell has a list of suspicious keywords. If found in a script block an automatic 4104 event will be generated regardless of logging policy :) (True for both PWSH 5/7)
Look for EID 4104 with Level 3 (Warning)
Full List: gist.github.com/nasbench/50c…