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.
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.
Okta’s Weak Link: When Your IdP’s Vendor Gets Pwned
One contractor’s stolen credentials reached super-admin support tooling across 366 Okta tenants. The identity supply chain’s hardest lesson.
OpenSea’s $1.7M Phish: The Signature Trap
Seventeen users, one fake migration flow, and $1.7M in Apes gone — the phishing heist that made signature UX a security discipline.
ProxyNotShell: Exchange Zero-Days Auctioned Before the Patch
Two Exchange zero-days chained SSRF-to-RCE were sold on a forum before Microsoft’s November 2022 patch — and mass-exploited in the gap. Assume-the-edge lessons.
2022–2024: Lapsus$, 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.