An executive-level explainer of double extortion — the dominant ransomware playbook in 2026 — covering how it works, why backups don’t fully defeat it, and the policy choices boards now have to make in the first hour of an incident.
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A field guide to the 2026 initial-access-broker market — how IABs source access, how they price it, who buys, and what the listings look like under the hood.
A 2026 workflow for telling AI-generated phishing apart from real correspondence — combining email-header forensics, public LLM-detection classifiers, and DKIM/SPF replay analysis.
The five-stage workflow that separates an OSINT analyst from someone with a bookmarks bar full of tools.
How journalists and OSINT analysts keep their personal accounts, devices, and identity separate from the investigations they run. Defensive opsec, not evasion.
What OSINT.industries actually returns, how I use it for journalism and due-diligence work, and the ethics framework I won’t run a query without.
A practitioner walkthrough of the photo-geolocation method used by Bellingcat and most newsroom verification teams. Worked example included.
Google Lens isn’t always the right tool. Here’s when each of the major reverse-image-search engines wins, and the ethics line on face-search services.
A practitioner’s roadmap to the OSINT tools that actually earn their place in your bookmarks bar. Free and paid, with honest notes on what each one is good for.
Once an infostealer has executed, every credential on the device is gone. Detection has to come before that, or detection is too late. A practical guide to catching infostealer infections at the host, network, and identity layer.