T-Mobile API Scraping 2023: 37M Accounts, One Credential
A single compromised API credential let an actor scrape ~37 million T-Mobile accounts over six weeks. Machine-identity governance lessons from a repeat offender.
FortiOS SSL-VPN Heap Overflow: Pre-Auth Emergency
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.
ProxyNotShell: Exchange Zero-Days Auctioned Before the Patch
Two Exchange zero-days chained SSRF-to-RCE were sold on a forum before Microsoft's November 2022 patch — and mass-exploited in the gap. Assume-the-edge lessons.
Fortinet CVE-2022-40684: Admin Access Without a Password
A CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass let attackers add their own SSH keys to FortiOS admin accounts via crafted HTTPS requests. Exploited at disclosure.
WhatsApp’s 2022 Ring-Phase RCE: Code Execution Before You Answer
CVE-2022-36934 gave WhatsApp a CVSS 9.8 integer-overflow RCE that could execute during the video-call ring — before the victim answered. Zero interaction.
Optus 2022: 9.8M Records, One Unauthenticated API, Zero Exploits
Australia's second-largest telco exposed ~9.8M customer records via an API left unauthenticated in production. No zero-day, no phishing — just enumeration.
Twitter’s 5.4M Scrape: When an API Becomes a Breach Oracle
A patched OAuth endpoint answered one question too honestly: which phone belongs to which handle. The dataset sold for $30k — the class lesson is still with us.
Follina in the Wild: TA413, Patch Gaps and Zero-Day Economics
Sixteen days between disclosure and patch. Who exploited Follina in the gap, how fast state and commodity actors moved, and the doctrine it forged.
Confluence CVE-2022-26134: OGNL Injection RCE Under Fire
Exploited in the wild two days before the patch existed. How OGNL injection turned Confluence into June 2022's internet-scale fire drill — and the playbook it left behind.
Follina: The Office Zero-Day That Needed No Macros
A protocol handler, a remote template, a signed diagnostic tool — CVE-2022-30190 executed PowerShell from a Word file with macros fully disabled.
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.
Apache httpd CVE-2021-44790: The RCE After Log4Shell
A mod_lua multipart buffer overflow announced ten days after Log4Shell. Narrow exposure, but a masterclass in triage under fatigue.