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.
Error-Based SQL Injection: Exploitation & Mitigation
Learn error-based exploitation techniques used by pentesters to extract sensitive data from vulnerable applications. Covers SQL injection, SSTI, and other injection-based attacks with practical examples and mitigation strategies.
BNB Chain 2022: The $570M Forgery Contained by a Chain Pause
An attacker forged a bridge proof to mint 2M BNB (~$570M), then validators halted the chain mid-launder. Only ~$100M escaped before the freeze.
One leaked key PWNED multi cloud orbit
One Leaked Secret, Your Entire Multi-Cloud
Toyota left one access key on GitHub for five years. This is the full chain: where cloud secrets leak, how attackers turn a found key into root, and the architecture that survives a leak they cannot prevent.
2022–2024: Lapsus$, Change Healthcare & the XZ Backdoor
The current era: social engineering teenage crews beating billion-dollar defenses, extortion without encryption, a single company’s collapse freezing America’s pharmacies — and the closest the internet has ever come to a supply-chain catastrophe.
2020–2021: SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline & the Ransomware Wave
The era attackers learned to poison the supply chain itself: a backdoor inside the software updates of 18,000 organizations, and ransomware crews bold enough to shut down a country’s fuel pipeline and its meat supply.
2016–2019: WannaCry, NotPetya & Mirai
The most destructive years in internet history: nation-state ransomware, the $10B NotPetya wipeout and the IoT botnet that broke the US internet.
2009–2015: Stuxnet, Sony & the Age of Cyber Weapons
The era the hypothetical became real: the first cyber weapon that destroyed physical machinery, the first state attack on a corporation over a movie, the collapse of the web’s trust system, and the biggest espionage haul in US history.
The 2000s: Love Bug, Estonia & the Card Heists (2000–2008)
The decade the Internet became the world’s infrastructure — and its crime economy. Email worms, the first APTs, the first nation-state DDoS war, and the biggest credit-card heists the world had ever seen.
The Early Era: Morris Worm & Kevin Mitnick (1988–1999)
Before the web, before firewalls, before cybersecurity was a word — the two incidents that created the industry: the Morris Worm and the world’s most wanted hacker.
The 33 Biggest Cyberattacks & Hacks in History (1988–2024)
From the worm that broke 10% of the early Internet to the ransomware attack that froze America’s pharmacy system — the 33 incidents that defined modern cybersecurity, in one complete list.
Living off the land signed toolshed
No Malware Needed: How Attackers Turn Your Own Admin Tools Against You
PowerShell, WMI, scheduled tasks, certutil: signed by the OS vendor, whitelisted by AV, trusted by EDR. Living-off-the-land attacks drop no malware, so detection cannot hinge on unknown binaries. The shift from artifact blacklists to execution-baseline analytics that actually catches native-tool chains.