Your Phone Is a Beacon: BLE Location Tracking Goes Mainstream
Rotating MAC addresses were supposed to make Bluetooth anonymous. May 2022’s synthesis of research, stalker hardware, and detection tools proved they never did.
Heroku Held the Keys: Anatomy of a Vendor-Token Breach
GitHub’s OAuth tokens lived in Heroku’s infrastructure. One compromised CI cache later, an ecosystem learned where vendor tokens really live.
Terra/Luna: The $60B Collapse That Wasn’t a Hack
No stolen keys, no exploit — just a death spiral in the mechanism itself. Why UST’s fall is mandatory reading for DeFi threat modelling.
Beanstalk’s $182M Flash-Loan Governance Attack: Thirteen Seconds
No key stolen, no bug exploited — an attacker borrowed a voting majority on Aave, passed his own proposal, and drained the vaults in one block.
Costa Rica’s Conti Emergency: When Ransomware Became a National Crisis
Conti encrypted the treasury during tax season, declared war on the government, and forced the world’s first ransomware state of emergency.
GitHub’s OAuth supply chain: the Heroku Token Heist That Reached npm
Attackers stole GitHub integration tokens from Heroku and Travis CI, pivoted into npm, and downloaded ~109,000 publishing credentials.
Spring4Shell: The RCE That Wasn’t Log4Shell (but Still Bit Hard)
A JDK 9 property path reopened a 2010-era bug class in Spring’s data binder — and gave every Tomcat admin a very bad 48 hours.
Lapsus$ vs Microsoft: When Teen Hackers Beat a Hyperscaler’s Odds
37GB claimed, one account compromised, no customer data lost — and a DEV-0536 profile that taught the industry how social engineering beats MFA.
Ronin Bridge: The $625M Heist That Ran on Five Keys
North Korea’s Lazarus Group drained Axie Infinity’s Ronin bridge of $625M with five forged signatures and a leftover permission nobody revoked.
Okta’s Weak Link: When Your IdP’s Vendor Gets Pwned
One contractor’s stolen credentials reached super-admin support tooling across 366 Okta tenants. The identity supply chain’s hardest lesson.
Dirty Pipe: Writing to Files You Cannot Write
One stale pipe flag let unprivileged users overwrite read-only files — /etc/passwd included — for 18 months on every modern Linux kernel.
Samsung’s 190 GB: Lapsus$ and Source-Code Extortion
One contractor’s credentials, 190 GB of Galaxy bootloader and biometrics code, and the pure steal-and-dump model that outlived encryption ransomware.
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