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Cybersecurity 5 min read

How Cloudflare Drop Turned Trusted CDNs Into Phishing Hosts

Cloudflare Drop needs no account to publish a live site. See how trusted CDN abuse on Cloudflare, Vercel, and Netlify is fueling phishing and malware.

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Cybersecurity 5 min read

SpaceX & Starlink X Hack: How Verified Badge Abuse Happened

Hackers used a fake SpaceXAI-affiliated badge to hijack SpaceX and Starlink's X accounts in a social media account takeover that fueled a $125K rug pull.

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Cybersecurity 6 min read

SolarisLoader Malware Analysis: Attack Chain & IOCs

SolarisLoader kills antivirus via a vulnerable driver, patches AMSI/ETW, and persists in three layers. Full attack chain and IOCs inside.

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Cybersecurity 7 min read

IoT Botnet Residential Proxy Risk for Enterprise Networks

Compromised smart home devices route attack traffic through legitimate residential IPs — bypassing your perimeter controls. Here's how it works and what stops it.

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Cybersecurity 6 min read

FIFA World Cup 2026 ticketing scams

PhishFort researchers identified multi-stage fake FIFA ticketing sites harvesting credentials, PII, and payment data. Here's how the infrastructure works and what to monitor.

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Cybersecurity 10 min read

In-House vs Outsourced Phishing Domain Takedowns for Banks

Compare three models for phishing domain takedowns: in-house program, per-incident service, and managed service. Decision criteria, process steps, and outcome metrics for security teams.

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Cybersecurity 2 min read

DMCA Takedown Process: Mastering the Steps to Success

This guide will walk you through what a DMCA takedown process consists of, why it's important to organizations, and how to begin the process.

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Cybersecurity 4 min read

Microsoft OTP Phishing Attack: How Threat Actors Abuse Trusted Alerts

Threat actors are abusing legitimate Microsoft OTP and MFA notification systems to bypass SPF, DMARC, and traditional email defenses. Learn how this phishing attack works and how to defend against it.

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