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The Cyber Defense Window Must Include Consumers

Why consumer Cyber Safety must be a central part of the collective defense against AI-powered attacks

Howie Xu

September 4, 2026 • 6 min read

The Cyber Defense Window Must Include Consumers

Research

The NDA Was the Payload: Inside Phantom Deal, a Fake Acquisition Fraud Campaign

Attackers posed as executives, moved conversations to WhatsApp and personal email, and forged acquisition documents to set up international wire transfers. When they targeted Gen, researchers played along, exposing a wider M&A scam.

Martin Chlumecký & 1 others

September 2, 2026 • 14 min read

The NDA Was the Payload: Inside Phantom Deal, a Fake Acquisition Fraud Campaign

Research

 WordlistLoader Delivering Amatera via ClearFake Campaigns

New Loader Hiding Shellcode in Plain English Words

Vojtěch Krejsa

August 18, 2026 • 25 min read

WordlistLoader Delivering Amatera via ClearFake Campaigns

Research

A 12 KB Backdoor Hid Its C2 Domain in desktop.ini Whitespace

A hand-written Windows backdoor stored its command-and-control domain as the number of trailing spaces in a fake desktop.ini, and we found it on exactly one machine.

Milánek

August 14, 2026 • 2 min read

A 12 KB Backdoor Hid Its C2 Domain in desktop.ini Whitespace

Research

The phishing link that died on purpose

A single expired URL exposed a phishing campaign built around Mailer-Go, Cloudflare Workers and an EvilTokens OneDrive lure.

Jan Kořínek

August 11, 2026 • 10 min read

Reports

Threat Report H1 2026

Attackers spent the first half of 2026 abusing trust that already exists: hotel workflows, messaging sessions, browser data, developer tools, AI agents, payment habits and identity signals.

Threat Research Team

July 15, 2026 • 1 min read

Research

Fake invoices are moving from inboxes to shopping apps

Scammers are using order-tracking apps to place fake receipts where users expect to see real purchases, then pushing them to call fake support numbers.