The Day the Keys to the Kingdom Went Missing In the quiet architecture of the internet, cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) serve as the management plane the largely invisible interface where the digital world is…
Qilin has come a long way since emerging in 2022. This Ransomware-as-a-Service operation has grown into one of the most active and damaging threats facing enterprise organizations today, with a particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, and education. The…
In the theater of modern cybersecurity, there is no irony more bitter than a defensive shield being sharpened into a spear. “BlueHammer” is the latest and perhaps most elegant realization of this paradox. A critical…
While Handala’s wiper operation made headlines, a stealthier and more dangerous campaign was already underway. Iran’s Seedworm group has quietly pre-positioned inside U.S. and Israeli critical infrastructure and the clock is ticking. The Quieter Campaign When the Handala wiper operation hit Stryker…
A Fortune 500 medical technology giant left with 200,000 wiped devices, surgical supply chains halted, and cardiac monitoring systems taken offline — all without a single line of malware touching the network. This post is…
Financial institutions remain one of the most aggressively targeted sectors in the global cyber threat landscape. From organized cybercrime groups to nation-state aligned actors, banks and financial service providers face a constant barrage of attacks targeting identity systems,…
Email is one of the oldest vectors for threats into your IT – and it is still one of the most common. Email servers can pose security risks in two ways. First, through malicious email…
When ransomware is dropped on your desktop and file shares, it feels like the beginning of the nightmare. It’s the final scene. Long before encryption begins, attackers have already worked their way through the network…
When talking about security or real-life attacks, the focus naturally tends to be on the things that went wrong. Security reports look at the most common “ways in” or new potential exploits. In a sense,…
The most powerful word in root cause analysis is why. Not just what happened, but why. If you trace it back a few steps, that can give a pretty good idea of all of the…
Early in 2025, a Thrive customer noticed something odd. One seemingly innocuous CPU spike was the first indicator of a problem that could have potentially destroyed an entire multi-state manufacturing company. The Background Before the…