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deep

[DEEP RESEARCH] Verified for Hire: How Fox Tempest Turned Code Signing Into a Criminal Utility

The certificate was real. The identity behind it was fraudulent—and the signing pipeline was rented to other criminals.

forecasts

[FORECAST] Device-Bound Sessions Are Coming. Defaults Are the Hard Part.

“Secure by default” sounds great until it meets BYOD, VDI, federated SSO, and the help desk exception list from hell. Device-bound sessions help. Waiting for every SaaS vendor to flip the default is not a strategy.

uat-8099

[DEEP RESEARCH] BadIIS Isn’t Enough: The IIS Module + HTTP Fingerprints That Catch SEO-Fraud Cloaking

*Vendors are naming slices of the same IIS SEO fraud problem differently. This summary aligns those labels into one unified hunt surface and shows how to separate UAT-8099/WEBJACK from other BadIIS-style activity using concrete host and HTTP fingerprints.*

forecasts

[FORECAST] CoPhish: The Microsoft Copilot Link That Hands Over Your OAuth Tokens

Will at least one publicly disclosed enterprise breach be confirmed where attackers used a Microsoft Copilot Studio..

weekly

SIGNALS WEEKLY: Keys & Gates — Windows kernel EoP; Cisco RA VPN reloads

Keys. Gates. Windows. Actively exploited Win kernel EoP ✅ (CVE-2025-62215). Cisco RA-VPN bugs can reload unpatched edges. LANDFALL used Samsung’s image bug (CVE-2025-21042). Which breaks first in your shop?

weekly

Signals Weekly: Active WSUS Exploits and Ransomware Shifts

WSUS RCE is live—patch OOB now + watch 8530/8531. Payments fell to 23% in Q3 as crews pivot to insider bribes; Qilin doubles down on ESXi + EDR tamper.

storm-2603

Storm-2603: SharePoint Zero-Day Exploitation and Warlock Ransomware—A Hybrid Financial and Espionage Threat

Storm-2603 is a China-based, financially motivated threat actor first identified in early 2025, responsible for a global campaign exploiting critical Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-53770, CVE-2025-49706, CVE-2025-49704).

edr

AI-Driven EDR Showdown: Comparative Analysis and Strategic Forecast for US Enterprises in 2026

This analysis delivers a comprehensive, data-driven comparison of the top five Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms in the US market for 2026: CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity, Palo Alto Cortex XDR, and Bitdefender GravityZone.

vulns

Exploiting Zero-Days: APT34, APT28, and APT29 in Focus

Microsoft's January 2025 Patch Tuesday release addressed 159 vulnerabilities, including eight zero-day vulnerabilities, with three actively exploited in the wild.