Hackers & Threats

With an extensive background in confronting sophisticated cyber threats within global corporations, Malik Haidar has a unique vantage point on the intersection of business strategy, intelligence, and security. His work focuses on fortifying the very systems that underpin our daily lives. In this

The familiar cyberattack narrative of locked screens and ransom demands is rapidly being rewritten as threat actors abandon disruptive tactics in favor of a far more insidious strategy of silent, long-term infiltration. An extensive analysis of over 1.1 million malicious files has revealed a

The intricate digital architecture underpinning a nation’s connectivity became the silent battleground for an 11-month clandestine war, culminating in Singapore’s successful disruption of a sophisticated state-sponsored espionage campaign. This extended engagement, codenamed "Operation Cyber Gu

The seemingly legitimate job application sitting in a hiring manager's inbox, complete with a verified profile and convincing credentials, could be the digital key handed directly to a state-sponsored operative seeking to fund a nation's weapons program. This scenario is not theoretical;

With a distinguished career spent on the front lines of corporate cyber defense, Malik Haidar has dissected the anatomy of countless attacks, from opportunistic hackers to sophisticated state-sponsored campaigns. His work at the intersection of analytics, intelligence, and security provides a rare,

A sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign has revealed how even the most trusted and widely used software can be turned into a weapon against a select few, as state-sponsored actors successfully compromised the update mechanism for the popular text editor, Notepad++. Rather than a broad,