KeePass Plaintext Export ‘Flaw’: The Trust-Boundary Debate
CVE-2023-24055 showed a config-planted trigger could export KeePass vaults in plaintext after unlock. The debate: feature, flaw, or threat model?
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CitrixBleed CVE-2023-4966: Session Tokens Straight From Memory
CVE-2023-4966 let attackers read valid session tokens out of NetScaler memory and inherit authenticated sessions wholesale — MFA already passed. CISA’s Emergency Directive 23-08 forced hunts and rebuilds as LockBit monetized the access.
Sony’s September: Rhysida, Ransomed.vc, and Claim Triage
In September 2023 two extortion crews — Rhysida and the short-lived Ransomed.vc — both posted Sony data claims, complete with a Bitcoin auction and a leaked code-signing certificate. Sony investigated; the claimed 6TB scale never verified.
LAPSUS$ Convictions: Teenagers, Helpdesks, and the GTA VI Leak
A London jury convicted the teenage LAPSUS$ hackers whose SIM swaps, MFA-fatigue pushes, and helpdesk manipulation breached Nvidia, Microsoft, Okta, Uber, and Rockstar — closing the criminal case that proved identity is the real perimeter.
Guardian Ransomware: The Newsroom That Kept Printing
Ransomware forced the Guardian’s newsroom off its networks for weeks in late 2022 — yet print and web kept publishing. Editorial continuity lessons.
SVB’s Collapse: When Banking Becomes a Security Problem
SVB’s March 2023 run froze payroll for half of venture-backed tech and minted a fraud wave targeting displaced customers. Treasury continuity lessons.
Reddit’s Phishing Breach: When MFA Codes Get Phished Too
A cloned intranet page harvested an employee’s password and MFA code, opening hours of internal access. Phishing-resistant MFA and self-report lessons.
Royal Mail vs LockBit: The $80M Ransom Refusal
LockBit encrypted Royal Mail’s international sorting operations in January 2023 and demanded $80M. Royal Mail paid nothing and kept the letters moving.
Rackspace Hosted Exchange Ransomware: The Outage That Killed a Legacy
Rackspace’s December 2022 ransomware incident took Hosted Exchange down for weeks, ended the product’s life, and cost $12M+. Legacy platform lessons.
The KeePass Extractor Fight: Memory Beats Crypto
A 2023 PoC scraped the KeePass master password from memory via a rogue DLL; the maintainer called it working as designed. Both were right — and the endpoint-is-the-perimeter lesson stuck.
git-credential Risks: When Helpers Leak What They Cache
Git’s January 2023 advisory flagged plaintext credential stores and verbose logs echoing 2FA tokens. Developer tooling is production security surface.
SEC v. Binance and Coinbase: Custody Meets Law
The SEC’s June 2023 suits against Binance and Coinbase charged unregistered securities operations at crypto’s two biggest exchanges — a custody and platform-risk story wearing legal clothing.
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