Articles
In-depth analysis of exploitation patterns, threat clusters, and vendor vulnerability trends.
Threat Cluster
Attacking the Defenders: The Persistent Pattern of AV and EDR Products in CISA KEV
18 KEV entries across Microsoft Defender, Trend Micro Apex One/OfficeScan, McAfee, and Sophos from 2019 to 2026 reveal three recurring attack patterns: exploit the scan engine, compromise the management console, and blind-then-escalate. The structural reasons keep repeating.
📰 Threat ClusterThe WAN Control Plane as a Target: Cisco SD-WAN and the UAT-8616 Campaign (2023–2026)
Five CVEs across two exploitation waves — a CVSS 10.0 zero-day active since 2023, a re-weaponised four-year-old privilege escalation, and a three-CVE zero-credential-to-admin chain added with a three-day CISA deadline — document an adversary with protocol-level knowledge of Cisco SD-WAN systematically compromising enterprise WAN management planes.
📰 Threat ClusterZimbra's Persistent XSS Problem: Nation-State Actors and the Classic UI (2022–2026)
Seven Zimbra XSS CVEs across four years — all hitting the same Classic UI HTML sanitizer — exploited by Greek, Belarusian, Russian, Vietnamese, and Pakistani nation-state actors for email intelligence collection. Why the vulnerability keeps recurring, and what the exploitation pattern reveals about webmail as intelligence infrastructure.
📰 Threat ClusterWhy Ivanti EPMM and EPM Became a Persistent Exploitation Target (2023–2026)
Seventeen Ivanti CVEs across EPMM, EPM, EPM CSA, and Sentry — plus sustained parallel exploitation in Fortinet FortiClient EMS and LANSCOPE endpoint management platforms — show a management-plane attack pattern spanning six years.
Defense Guide
GrapheneOS: A Hardened Android for High-Risk Users
Android zero-days in the CISA KEV catalog show that mobile devices are prime targets for sophisticated threat actors. GrapheneOS is a hardened Android distribution built for users who cannot afford to be compromised — journalists, activists, lawyers, and anyone facing a serious personal threat model.
📰 Defense GuideUpgrade to OpenSSH 10.3 on Client and Server for Post-Quantum SSH
Upgrade-focused SSH post-quantum rollout guide targeting OpenSSH 10.3 on both client and server.
📰 Defense GuideSSH Keys and Jump Servers: A Beginner's Guide to Doing It Right
Copying your private SSH key onto a jump server is a common mistake that turns any local privilege escalation — like CVE-2026-31431 — into a full breach of every host behind it. This guide explains what SSH keys are, why your private key must never leave the machine that generated it, and how to connect through a jump server without putting your key at risk.
📰 Defense GuideHardening the Linux Kernel: Defense in Depth Against Privilege Escalation
Copy Fail demonstrated that Linux kernel privilege escalation flaws can sit undetected for nearly a decade. The Kernel Self Protection Project provides a systematic hardening baseline that raises the cost of exploitation across entire vulnerability classes — not just individual CVEs.