REvil Takedown: How 14 Arrests Killed Ransomware’s Worst Brand
October 2021's FSB operation ended REvil with arrests, asset seizures, and infrastructure capture. The talent lived on elsewhere.
DST Root CA X3 Expiry: The Scheduled Outage That Mostly Wasn’t
Five years of notice, one expired root, and a clever cross-sign that kept old Android trusting Let's Encrypt. The rehearsal for every future trust migration.
OMIGOD: The Root Bug Hiding in Azure’s Invisible Linux Agent
A malformed request header turned OMI into root-level remote code execution on millions of Azure Linux VMs. Most owners never knew the agent existed.
FORCEDENTRY: The Zero-Click iMessage Exploit That Beat BlastDoor
NSO's FORCEDENTRY turned a PDF font parser into a tiny computer and owned iPhones with no tap. The Citizen Lab anatomy and Apple's Lockdown Mode response.