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.
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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.
Genesis Market Takedown: Sessions Are the New Passwords
Operation Cookie Monster seized the market selling browser sessions, cookies, and saved credentials for ~2M identities, with 119 arrests across 17+ countries. Session-security lessons.
LastPass Vault Theft Confirmed: The December Reckoning
LastPass confirmed attackers copied encrypted vault backups after pivoting through a DevOps engineer’s endpoint. KDF legacy and unencrypted metadata set the real risk.
Okta Support Breach 2023: Session Tokens Beat MFA Again
Attackers compromised an Okta support engineer’s personal device, stole the session cookies inside it, and used Okta’s own support console against a customer base estimated at five percent of tenants. BeyondTrust, 1Password, and Cloudflare each detected the downstream activity independently — before the full scope was confirmed.
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The First 24 Hours of a Ransomware Attack: Survival Playbook
Change Healthcare lost the claims pipeline of a nation in hours. This minute-by-minute playbook covers hour zero containment, the command structure by hour four, backup verification, pay/no-pay, regulatory clocks — and the non-technical decisions that decide survival.
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