Ransomware Recovery Drills: Test Your Backups Before You Need Them
A practical ransomware recovery drill guide covering backup immutability, restore timing, clean-room validation, tabletop exercises, and recovery metrics.
Incident Response
Real-world incident response case studies and playbooks
SIEM Alert Fatigue: How to Build a Triage Playbook That Actually Works
Most SOC teams drown in thousands of daily alerts while real threats go unnoticed. This guide walks through auditing your alert inventory, building triage decision trees, risk scoring with math instead of gut feel, and automating the repetitive work — with Splunk, Wazuh, and Elastic examples throughout.
The XZ Utils Backdoor (CVE-2024-3094): How a Nation-State Nearly Compromised the World’s SSH
The XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) explained — the 2-year social engineering campaign, how the backdoor worked, which systems were affected, and lessons for open source security.
Memory Forensics: How to Analyze RAM Dumps to Find Hidden Malware
Memory forensics with Volatility 3 — capturing RAM dumps, finding hidden malware with malfind, analyzing network connections, and a real case study finding a Cobalt Strike beacon.
Password Spraying: How This Low-and-Slow Attack Bypasses Account Lockouts
Password spraying explained — how this low-and-slow attack bypasses lockouts, how APT groups use it, how to detect it with KQL queries, and how to prevent it with MFA and modern auth.
AI-Powered Cyberattacks in 2025: How Attackers Are Using LLMs and What Defenders Can Do
How attackers are using AI and LLMs in 2025 — AI phishing, malware generation, deepfake social engineering — and the AI-powered defenses that can keep pace.
Ivanti Connect Secure Mass Exploitation (CVE-2025-0282): Lessons from the 2025 VPN Attacks
CVE-2025-0282 and the Ivanti Connect Secure mass exploitation by Chinese APT — SPAWN malware, compromised integrity checks, and what organizations need to do now.
CVE-2025-29824: Windows CLFS Zero-Day Used by Ransomware Groups — What You Need to Know
CVE-2025-29824, the Windows CLFS zero-day exploited by ransomware groups in 2025 — how it works, how to check if you’re patched, and how to detect exploitation attempts.
CUPS RCE Vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-47176): Linux Printing System as an Attack Vector
CVE-2024-47176 and the CUPS vulnerability chain explained — how an unauthenticated attacker can get RCE via the Linux printing system on port 631, and how to stop it.
regreSSHion: CVE-2024-6387 OpenSSH Vulnerability Explained and How to Patch It
CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion) explained — the first OpenSSH RCE in 18 years, how the race condition works, who is affected, and the exact commands to patch or mitigate it immediately.