SIM Safehouses Around the UN: How the Secret Service Just Dismantled a Phantom Network

300 servers. 100,000 SIM cards. Empty safehouses across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. This wasn’t just telecom fraud, it was a battlefield…

Sep 23 • 

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Scattered Spider, Teenagers, and the New Normal of Cyber Violence

Not a foreign ghost with a VPN, not a shadowy APT. This time the culprits are young, local, and alarmingly capable.

Sep 22 • 

Tom

Seed & Deceive: When Russia Grooms the Machine

From North America to Ukraine, Kremlin content farms are turning propaganda into machine-made “truth.”

Sep 3 • 

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August 2025

From Propaganda to Prison: Serial Hacker Gets 20 Months After NCA Takedown

His banners screamed ideology across government sites in Israel and the US—but investigators uncovered the real prize: a massive credential theft…

Aug 16 • 

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July 2025

Hoops & Hash: When Your Threat Actor Also Plays Pro Ball

Imagine showing up to watch your local Russian basketball team and not knowing the guy draining threes just helped drain your bank account too.That’s…

Jul 11 • 

Tom

$140M Gone Quietly: The Brazilian Insider’s Bank Job

You don’t need a mask when you’ve got root access,A Brazilian bank learned that the hard way. One dev. One bribe.$140 million walks out the front door…

Jul 5 • 

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June 2025

Iranian Hack-and-Leak: When Ceasefires Mean Nothing in Cyber.

Even with the headlines screaming “ceasefire,” Iranian crews kept hunting for soft targets: your OT networks, your data, your reputation.

Jun 30 • 

Tom

The Fall of BreachForums: When Hackers Get Hunted

ShinyHunters. Hollow. Noct. Depressed. IntelBroker. Behind every major breach? Them. Behind their fall? A coordinated strike in Europe.

Jun 25 • 

Tom

Your SSN Is Worth Less Than Coffee — and Russian Hackers Know It.

Russian cybercriminals are selling verified U.S. Social Security numbers, VINs, DLs, even your mother’s maiden name. all happening in broad daylight…

Jun 11 • 

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May 2025

When ChatGPT O3 Refused to Die: A Controlled Glitch or a Glimpse of What’s Coming?

“End program.” The kind of command that should be absolute. Final. A digital off-switch,But in a controlled experiment earlier this month, something…

May 26 • 

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April 2025

China’s New Weapon: SMS Phishing at Scale AKA U.S. toll road smishing scams.

Smishing-as-a-Service is the new startup no one asked for—scaling faster than your favorite SaaS.

Apr 20 • 

Tom

When the Spies Spy on Each Other

While it's not uncommon to see Western entities targeted by Chinese cyber units, this campaign reflects something far more complex: a game of espionage…

Apr 18 • 

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