John Z Black

Europol Took Down Tycoon2FA. It Was Back in Days, and Smarter Than Before.

John Z Black Mar 31, 2026

Ransomware & Cybercrime #phishing #tycoon2fa #phishing-as-a-service #microsoft-365 #entra-id #conditional-access #mfa #aitm #europol #crowdstrike

Tycoon2FA's rapid return after Europol's March 4 takedown shows why seizing infrastructure doesn't shut down phishing platforms. The operators pre-staged backup infrastructure before the first domain was seized.

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Your Security Scanner Was the Weapon: How the Trivy Supply Chain Attack Worked

John Z Black Mar 31, 2026

Threat Intelligence #trivy #supply-chain #github-actions #cicd #aqua-security #devsecops #secrets #sha-pinning #software-supply-chain

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ShinyHunters Just Hit the EU. Here's Why They Keep Getting Away With It.

John Z Black Mar 31, 2026

Incidents & Breaches #shinyhunters #european-commission #data-breach #aws #cloud-security #ticketmaster #europa-eu #extortion

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Russia Convicted 26 Cybercriminals, Including a Hacker the US Has Been Hunting for Years

John Z Black Mar 31, 2026

Ransomware & Cybercrime #russia #flint24 #cybercrime #payment-card-fraud #stroganov #extradition #accountability #military-court

Russia sentenced 26 members of the Flint24 card fraud network, including a man on the US Secret Service's most-wanted list. It looks like accountability. It isn't.

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Three Vendors, Three Critical Bugs, All Exploited This Week: The Edge Device Emergency

John Z Black Mar 31, 2026

Vulnerabilities & Patching #f5 #big-ip #citrix #netscaler #fortinet #forticlient-ems #cisa-kev #rce #cve #patch #perimeter-security

F5 BIG-IP, Citrix NetScaler, and Fortinet FortiClient EMS all have critical vulnerabilities under active exploitation this week. Here's what happened and what you need to do right now.

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Three Chinese Hacker Groups Hit the Same Government. At the Same Time.

John Z Black Mar 31, 2026

Threat Intelligence #china #apt #mustang-panda #unit42 #espionage #southeast-asia #usb-worm #hiupan #nation-state

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