December 2022

LastPass Vault Theft Confirmed: The December Reckoning

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:December 27, 2022
Post category:Cloud & Infrastructure Identity & Phishing Security

LastPass confirmed attackers copied encrypted vault backups after pivoting through a DevOps engineer's endpoint. KDF legacy and unencrypted metadata set the real risk.

Guardian Ransomware: The Newsroom That Kept Printing

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:December 25, 2022
Post category:Emerging Tech & Architecture Ransomware & Malware Security

Ransomware forced the Guardian's newsroom off its networks for weeks in late 2022 — yet print and web kept publishing. Editorial continuity lessons.

InfraGard Portal Breach: Account Takeover Inside the Vetted

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:December 18, 2022
Post category:Identity & Phishing Security

USDoD hijacked a chapter president's InfraGard account and listed 87,000 members' PII for sale. Identity lessons for trusted-community portals.

Rackspace Hosted Exchange Ransomware: The Outage That Killed a Legacy

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:December 11, 2022
Post category:Cloud & Infrastructure Ransomware & Malware Security

Rackspace's December 2022 ransomware incident took Hosted Exchange down for weeks, ended the product's life, and cost $12M+. Legacy platform lessons.

FortiOS SSL-VPN Heap Overflow: Pre-Auth Emergency

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:December 9, 2022
Post category:Cloud & Infrastructure Security Web & API Security

CVE-2022-42475 was a CVSS 9.8 pre-auth heap overflow in FortiOS SSL-VPN, patched silently then confirmed exploited. Edge memory safety lessons.

ChatGPT’s Launch and the Dawn of Prompt Injection

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:December 2, 2022
Post category:AI & Agent Security Emerging Tech & Architecture Security

ChatGPT landed November 30, 2022 and hit 100M users in two months — and immediately made prompt injection a practical attack class. Still unsolved in 2026.