Hacker Groups & Activities

With a distinguished career spent on the front lines of corporate cyber defense, Malik Haidar has a unique vantage point on the evolving tactics of state-sponsored threat actors. He joins us today to dissect a recent espionage campaign by the notorious group APT28, offering a masterclass in modern

The release of a critical software patch is typically met with a collective sigh of relief from IT administrators and security professionals, but for sophisticated threat actors, it represents the starting pistol in a high-stakes race to exploit the very vulnerability the patch was designed to fix.

The New Voice of Cyber Extortion A single, persuasive phone call from a supposed IT support agent has become the deceptive key used by sophisticated threat actors to dismantle corporate security defenses that were once considered nearly impenetrable. This escalating wave of advanced social

Introduction: The Rise of Specialized State-Sponsored Cybercrime The shadowy world of state-sponsored hacking is undergoing a profound transformation, moving away from monolithic entities toward highly specialized, mission-driven units. Recent analysis from the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on the

The discovery of a malicious VBA macro with comments that read more like prompts for a machine than notes from a human developer signals a potential paradigm shift in state-sponsored cyber espionage. In a sophisticated campaign targeting Iranian human rights activists, evidence now strongly

A single piece of malicious code, deployed with surgical precision, can simultaneously function as a bank robber and a state secret thief, challenging the long-held distinctions between cybercrime and espionage. The emergence of a sophisticated new malware framework is forcing cybersecurity experts