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GUIDE6 min read

Mobile Malware in 2026: How It Gets In and How to Stay Safer

Spyware, banking trojans and sideloaded RATs — how modern mobile malware lands on a device, the tools that detect it, and the habits that keep you off the target list.

MVTiVerifyHypatiaCrowdStrike Falcon for Mobile
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GUIDE7 min read

Phishing Defense That Actually Works

AiTM kits, QR 'quishing' and callback scams beat old training. What actually lowers real risk: phishing-resistant auth, a detonation layer on the inbox, and drills that mirror current tradecraft.

GoPhishEvilginxSublime SecurityProofpoint
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TIP6 min read

Splunk Detection Tips: From Noisy Alerts to Real-Time Signal

SPL patterns, accelerated data models and tstats tricks that turn a slow, noisy Splunk into a near-real-time detection engine — with snippets you can paste in today.

Splunk Enterprise SecuritytstatsCIM data modelsSplunk SOAR
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TIP7 min read

EDR Tuning: Real Value from CrowdStrike, Defender and SentinelOne

Deploying an EDR is easy; making it stop attacks without drowning analysts is the work. Staged prevention policy, environment-specific custom detections, and real-time response done right.

CrowdStrike FalconMicrosoft Defender for EndpointSentinelOneVelociraptor
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TUTORIAL8 min read

The Recon Toolkit: Practical Nmap, Nessus and Wireshark Tips

The flags, scan policies and capture filters that separate a fast, accurate assessment from a slow, noisy one — three heavy tools chained into one discovery-to-evidence loop.

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BLOG9 min read

How I Run a VAPT Project End to End

The workflow I actually follow on a network + Active Directory engagement — scoping, recon, exploitation, lateral movement, reporting and retest — with the tools and a sanitized findings sample.

NmapNessusBurp Suite ProBloodHound
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BLOG8 min read

How I Run an API Penetration Test

REST and GraphQL APIs fail on authorization and business logic far more than on injection. The workflow, the tooling, and a sanitized sample of what usually comes back.

Burp Suite ProPostmanmitmproxyKiterunner
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BLOG8 min read

How I Run a Mobile App Pentest (iOS & Android)

Static analysis, Frida instrumentation, pinning bypass, local storage and the backend tie-in — the mobile engagement workflow and a sanitized findings sample.

MobSFFridaObjectionjadx
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DEEP DIVE8 min read

What AI Actually Finds: LLM-Assisted Work Across Pentest, SOC and Malware

Where an LLM genuinely speeds up offensive and defensive work — code review, SPL generation, deobfuscation, YARA drafting — where it confidently lies, and a sample of what it surfaced on real reviews.

ClaudeGitHub CopilotSplunk AI Assistantcapa
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TIP4 min read

Hardening Your Cloud in 5 Steps

A practical checklist to lock down AWS, Azure and GCP workloads before attackers find the gaps.

ProwlerScoutSuiteTrivyCheckov
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GUIDE6 min read

Prompt Injection: The OWASP LLM #1 Risk

How indirect prompt injection turns helpful AI into an attacker tool — and how to defend against it.

GarakPyRITPromptfooRebuff
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BLOG5 min read

Inside a Real SOC: A Day in the Life

From the first SIEM alert to incident closure — what L1/L2/L3 actually looks like in practice.

SplunkSentinelQRadarTheHive
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RESEARCH8 min read

Reverse Engineering Modern Loaders

Unpacking obfuscated stage-1 malware and extracting IOCs the right way.

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TUTORIAL7 min read

Advanced Burp Suite Techniques for WAPT

Beyond the scanner — custom extensions, intruder payloads, and out-of-band tricks for real engagements.

Burp Suite ProCollaboratorTurbo IntruderParam Miner
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DEEP DIVE9 min read

Defending LLMs Against Jailbreak Attacks

Guardrail strategies, red-team patterns, and why most "safe" prompts are still breakable.

GarakPyRITLLM GuardRebuff
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TUTORIAL7 min read

Building a Bug Bounty Recon Pipeline

Automated subdomain discovery, fingerprinting and vulnerability triage that finds bugs while you sleep.

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DEEP DIVE8 min read

Kubernetes Attack Paths You Should Know

From a single pod compromise to full cluster takeover — the chains every defender must understand.

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TIP5 min read

5 Active Directory Quick Wins for Defenders

Practical hardening that closes the attack paths red teams actually use.

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GUIDE6 min read

Detection Engineering 101

How to write detections that catch real attackers without drowning the SOC in false positives.

SigmaSplunkSentinelAtomic Red Team
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GUIDE6 min read

API Security: The Top 10 That Actually Matter

BOLA, broken auth, mass assignment — the API bugs that show up on every engagement and how to test for them.

Burp Suite ProPostmanParam MinerAutorize
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BLOG5 min read

Zero Trust Without the Buzzwords

What zero trust actually looks like in a mid-size company — identity, device posture, and segmentation that ship.

Entra IDOktaCrowdStrikeTailscale
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TUTORIAL7 min read

Mobile App Pentest: The Checklist I Actually Use

iOS and Android static + dynamic testing, from cert pinning bypass to insecure storage and IPC abuse.

MobSFFridaObjectionBurp Suite
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TIP4 min read

Phishing-Resistant MFA in 10 Minutes

Why TOTP and SMS keep getting bypassed — and the FIDO2 rollout playbook that finally stops AiTM kits.

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TIP4 min read

Secrets Management Quick Wins

Stop the .env sprawl: practical patterns to kill hardcoded keys without rewriting your stack.

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GUIDE7 min read

Software Supply Chain Attacks: A Defender's Guide

From typosquats to malicious maintainers — how to lock down npm, PyPI and container dependencies.

SyftGrypecosignSigstore
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GUIDE6 min read

Container Image Hardening That Survives Production

Distroless, non-root, read-only filesystems and the runtime controls that actually stop escapes.

TrivyGrypeFalcoChainguard
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BLOG5 min read

Burnout on the Blue Team — And How We Fix It

Honest notes on alert fatigue, on-call rotations, and the cultural changes that keep good analysts.

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BLOG6 min read

First 90 Days as a Security Lead

A pragmatic plan for new heads of security — what to measure, what to ignore, what to ship.

CIS ControlsNIST CSFATT&CK NavigatorVanta
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RESEARCH8 min read

Ransomware Affiliate Tradecraft in 2026

What this year's leaked playbooks tell us about initial access, dwell time and double extortion patterns.

VelociraptorGRRVolatilityRclone
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RESEARCH9 min read

Mapping the AI Agent Attack Surface

Tool-using LLM agents create new privilege paths — here's how to model and test them.

PyRITGarakPromptfooBurp Suite
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TUTORIAL7 min read

Writing YARA Rules That Actually Scale

From one-off IOCs to a tunable detection corpus your SOC can run on every file in the estate.

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TUTORIAL7 min read

AD Pentest with BloodHound CE: A Walkthrough

Collection, ingestion and the Cypher queries I run on every internal engagement.

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DEEP DIVE9 min read

eBPF for Detection: Beyond the Hype

Where eBPF actually wins for runtime security — and where the marketing oversells it.

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DEEP DIVE10 min read

Modern EDR Evasion: What Defenders Should Know

Direct syscalls, indirect syscalls, unhooking, hardware breakpoints — what red teams ship and what catches it.

SysmonETWVelociraptorDefender for Endpoint
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DEEP DIVE8 min read

AI + Cybersecurity in 2026: How Far We've Come Since 2016

From signature-based AV and rule-based SIEMs to autonomous agents on both sides of the fight — a decade-in-review and what's next.

PyRITGarakPromptfooLangSmith
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DEEP DIVE8 min read

Post-Quantum Crypto Migration: What to Do Before 2030

Harvest-now-decrypt-later is real. Here's the practical roadmap for moving to ML-KEM and ML-DSA without breaking production.

Open Quantum SafeliboqsBoringSSLAWS KMS (ML-KEM)
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TUTORIAL6 min read

OSINT for Red Teams: Building the Attack Narrative

From employee footprints to leaked credentials — the open-source recon that turns into a phishing pretext or an initial-access plan.

theHarvesterMaltegoSpiderFootHave I Been Pwned API
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GUIDE6 min read

Purple Teaming That Actually Changes Detections

Why most purple team exercises end in a slide deck instead of a shipped detection — and how to fix that.

Atomic Red TeamCalderaMITRE ATT&CK NavigatorSigma
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GUIDE5 min read

Stopping GenAI Data Leakage Before It Starts

Employees are pasting source code and customer data into public chatbots. Here's the DLP and policy stack that actually stops it.

Microsoft PurviewNetskopeNightfall AIGitHub Copilot (enterprise, zero-retention)
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TIP4 min read

5 AI Security Tips You Can Ship This Week

No budget, no new headcount — the fastest wins for locking down whatever LLM features your team already shipped.

Lakera GuardLLM GuardRebuffLangfuse
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RESEARCH8 min read

New Attacker Tooling in 2026: What's Actually Changing Hands

From AI-assisted C2 frameworks to auto-weaponized N-days — a look at what's trading on criminal forums this year.

VirusTotalAlienVault OTXRecorded FutureGreyNoise
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DEEP DIVE8 min read

Building an AI Firewall: Defending LLM Apps at the Edge

Rate limits and prompt filters aren't enough anymore — the architecture for a real defense layer in front of your models.

Lakera GuardLLM GuardNVIDIA NeMo GuardrailsPrompt Armor
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TUTORIAL7 min read

Digital Forensics with Autopsy: A Practical Recovery Workflow

From a forensically sound disk image to a defensible timeline — running a real investigation and data recovery with the open-source Autopsy platform.

AutopsyThe Sleuth KitFTK ImagerPhotoRec
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TUTORIAL7 min read

Mobile & Encrypted Evidence: UFED, Autopsy and Passware Kit in One Workflow

Extracting a phone, cracking the encrypted container, and analyzing everything in one timeline — how three forensic tools chain together on a real case.

Cellebrite UFEDPassware Kit ForensicAutopsyThe Sleuth Kit
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