Hacker Groups & Activities

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,

A subtle but persistent operational security mistake has provided security researchers with an unprecedented look into the sprawling infrastructure of a prolific cybercrime group known as ShadowSyndicate. A comprehensive analysis has unraveled a complex web of malicious servers by tracing a single,

The paradox of modern cybersecurity is that despite unprecedented levels of financial investment dedicated to digital defense, the frequency and severity of corporate data breaches continue their relentless ascent. This troubling trend points not to a lack of effort but to a fundamental

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.