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.
One contractor's credentials, 190 GB of Galaxy bootloader and biometrics code, and the pure steal-and-dump model that outlived encryption ransomware.
A pro-Russia statement, a furious insider, and the full Jabber archive of history's most damaging ransomware brand — dumped for everyone to read.
Seventeen users, one fake migration flow, and $1.7M in Apes gone — the phishing heist that made signature UX a security discipline.
Hours before tanks rolled, a signed wiper shredded hundreds of Ukrainian networks. The anatomy of the first invasion-synced destructive campaign.
CVE-2021-4034 gave instant root on default Linux installs via pure logic flaw. Why setuid code still deserves emergency attention.
No zero-days, no malware — just MFA fatigue, SIM swaps, and help-desk social engineering. How Lapsus$ broke every assumption.
Attackers defeated the second factor, not the vault, draining $34M from 483 accounts before a platform-wide withdrawal halt stopped them.
A mod_lua multipart buffer overflow announced ten days after Log4Shell. Narrow exposure, but a masterclass in triage under fatigue.
UKG's Kronos Private Cloud ransomware outage forced thousands of employers onto paper time cards. The definitive SaaS continuity case.
A single JNDI lookup string turned every Java logger into a front door. The anatomy, response, and lasting lessons of Log4Shell.
A DYNOMITE autoscaler impairment cascaded through AWS's busiest region and its own consoles. The dependency-concentration landmark.
Attackers abused a misconfigured FBI notification system to spam fake cyber-warnings from the real fbi.gov address, exposing the limits of email trust.