I want to alert you to a major security incident that is currently making waves in the JavaScript community. We are dealing with a software supply chain attack in the npm ecosystem: no fewer than 18 highly popular packages (including chalk and debug) were compromised through a hijacked maintainer account. As a result, malicious versions…
I propose an article on Scattered Spider, the name given by a security vendor (CrowdStrike) to a group of cybercriminals that has recently emerged in the cybercrime landscape. I tried to keep it short, but far too much information gets lost—happy reading. Scattered Spider is the name given by cybersecurity researchers (notably CrowdStrike) to a…
A recent supply-chain attack targeting Salesloft – the provider of a popular AI chatbot integrated with Salesforce – has compromised data from hundreds of companies. Tracked by Google as threat group UNC6395, the attackers stole OAuth access tokens for Salesloft’s Drift chatbot integration and used them between August 8 and August 18, 2025 to illicitly…
Executive SummaryFollowing the actively exploited vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler (CVE-2025-7775), this summary provides an overview of the technical details and the associated risks. The flaw, a critical memory overflow, has been added by CISA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog due to confirmed in-the-wild exploitation. It allows unauthenticated remote code execution on vulnerable appliances,…
I use the label “APT29,” also known as Cozy Bear, The Dukes, NOBELIUM, and—under Microsoft’s taxonomy—Midnight Blizzard. Public reporting predominantly attributes this actor to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and the multiple aliases reflect vendor naming schemes. Objectives and targeting I observe a primary espionage focus on governments, diplomatic missions, think tanks, IT/Cloud providers, and…
I had long wanted to examine the intelligence employed during the Second World War. Drawing on the training I received at the École de Guerre Économique (EGE), I present here a neutral, factual synthesis, accompanied by full references as well as the original document that served as my source. This article synthesizes the report Secret…
