Lumma now leads the infostealer ecosystem in 2026, after Operation Magnus took out RedLine and META in late 2024. RedLine’s…
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A stealer log is the data dump that an infostealer malware produces after it compromises a device. It typically contains…
Inside the May 2026 pivot to encryption-less extortion. The ShinyHunters–Instructure breach, Nitrogen’s hit on Foxconn, EDR killers as standard tooling, and what a 28% payment rate means for defenders.
A practical OSINT walkthrough for investigating ransomware leak sites — workflow, sources, pitfalls, and how to verify victim claims without breaking operational security.
Prompt injection is now the dominant attack vector against LLM-powered applications — and most teams shipping AI features don’t have a defensive playbook. We map the attack taxonomy, walk through real exploit patterns, and lay out the controls that actually contain the blast radius.
Initial Access Brokers (IABs) are the middlemen of the modern ransomware economy — specialists who break into corporate networks and resell that access to ransomware operators. We break down the marketplaces, the pricing tiers, the dominant brokers of 2026, and how to disrupt the chain.
Multi-factor authentication was supposed to end the credential-theft era. In 2026, it hasn’t — because adversaries skip the credential entirely and steal the session cookie that the authentication produced. Here’s how the attack works, why MFA doesn’t stop it, and the four controls that do.
Remote Desktop Protocol remains the single most-abused initial-access vector for ransomware operators in 2026. We break down the current attack patterns — credential stuffing, broker-sold access, BlueKeep-era CVE echoes, and weaponised RDS misconfigurations — and the controls that actually move the needle.
Alerts.bar is a continuously-updated dark-web monitoring and stealer-log intelligence platform. We’ve used it in production to power Ransomnews’s free Stealercheck tool. Here’s our independent review — features, pricing, real-world testing, and how it stacks up against HIBP, SpyCloud, Constella, and Hudson Rock.
A step-by-step tutorial for wiring an MCP server into a WordPress site — using the AI Engine MCP adapter — so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client can read posts, run admin tasks, and edit content. With auth, scope, and security hardening you actually need.