Tag: incident-response

All the articles with the tag "incident-response".

• Poisoned at the Source

  8 Jun, 2026

  Someone shared an interesting article. A colleague forwarded it. Three managed devices got wiped before the week was out.

• The Midnight Beachhead: A Real-World RCE Incident on a University Network

  28 Apr, 2026

  Shortly after midnight, an attacker exploited a known vulnerability in a web-facing server at one of our international campus locations. This is what happened next.

• Sinkhole, Bursts, and a 142-Minute Retry Timer: Reading C2 Behavior in the Logs

  14 Apr, 2026

  A phishing click led to fixed-size C2 check-ins arriving in two distinct bursts with a 142-minute gap between them. The pattern told the story before we had a verdict.

• Anatomy of a Crypto Drainer: Phishing, a 22MB Payload, and 180 Identical Beacons

  13 Apr, 2026

  A user clicked through a phishing warning and ended up with what the evidence points to as a crypto drainer. Here's what the traffic looked like and how we assessed it.