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.
ChaosDB: The Azure Cosmos DB Chain That Crossed Tenants
A notebook container bug, an embedded certificate, and a confused gateway let any Cosmos DB customer read every other tenant's data. Fixed in 48 hours, taught forever.
Poly Network: The $611M Bridge Hack That Got Returned
A forged keeper-list substitution drained $611M across three chains. Then the attacker gave it all back. The bridge bug class that defined Web3's worst year.
T-Mobile 2021: 76.6 Million Records Through One Unprotected API
No zero-days, no malware — just weak router credentials, a flat network, and an internal API with no authentication. The Binns breach rewrote telecom disclosure playbooks.
ProxyShell: The August 2021 Exchange Pillage After Hafnium
Three patched-but-unapplied Exchange bugs chained into unauthenticated RCE. Webshells, mailbox theft, and ransomware followed at population scale within two weeks.
PetitPotam and ESC8: The NTLM Relay Chain That Owned Active Directory
PetitPotam coerced Windows machines to authenticate, AD CS web enrollment happily minted a DC certificate, and domains fell in an afternoon. The relay class is still with us.
HiveNightmare: The Two-Line Bug That Leaked Every Local Password Hash
One broken inheritance flag left Windows SAM, SYSTEM, and SECURITY hives readable by any user. With shadow copies in play, that meant every local NTLM hash on the box.
Pegasus Zero-Click: Spyware That Needed No Click at All
The Pegasus Project exposed 50,000 targeted numbers and a hard truth: modern mercenary spyware infects phones through iMessage and WhatsApp without the victim doing anything.
Kaseya VSA Ransomware: 60 MSPs, 1,500 Businesses, One Friday
REvil turned Kaseya's remote-management platform into a mass-encryption weapon, hitting ~60 MSPs and up to 1,500 downstream businesses days before a patch could land.
WD My Book Live Mass Wipe: The EOL IoT Disaster
Tens of thousands of abandoned Western Digital NAS drives got factory-reset by strangers through a decade-old unpatched flaw. The definitive end-of-life IoT case study.
PrintNightmare: When the Patch Didn’t Fix Anything
A leaked PoC, a patch that didn't patch, and weeks of registry-hardening confusion — how CVE-2021-34527 turned Windows Print Spooler into a domain-takeover primitive.