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9 Aug 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist
LinkedIn is a great communication tool for business professionals that informs, provides opportunities, and fosters collaboration — which is exactly why it is attractive to sophisticated cyber adversaries, including aggressive nation state actors, w...
22 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
The UK government has proposed banning public sector entities — including national healthcare, education institutions, libraries, and other government bodies — from making ransomware payments. This move addresses a core motivator for cybercriminals:...
18 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
The face of war is constantly changing. Cyberattacks have often been discounted as a support function at best when it comes to winning on a traditional battlefield. But if military weapons supply chains can be disrupted, it may shift perceptions. De...
9 Jul 2025 1 minute read 18 comments Matthew Rosenquist
Aggressive nation-states are increasingly leveraging cyberattacks as tools to advance their foreign policy objectives. In this case, Iran sponsored Pay2Key Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) is offering an increase in profit sharing (80%) to affiliates...
23 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
With daring military attacks, kinetic warfare is shifting the balance of power in regions across the globe, upending the perception of power projection. Powerful nations are reeling from the impacts of bold assaults and seeking additional methods...
22 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
During exercises at CognectCon2025 a number of cyberattack scenarios were discussed that highlighted the risks of cyber attackers leveraging cognitive vulnerabilities to cause major impacts to nation critical infrastructures. This video is a short r...
17 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
Congrats to INTERPOL for taking down a major cyber information-theft infrastructure! Over 20 thousand IPs/domains were shuttered and 41 servers that contained more than 100GB of sensitive data was seized. It is estimated this group, 32 of which we...
23 May 2025 1 minute read 13 comments Matthew Rosenquist
As cryptocurrency becomes more popular and the adoption rises, we see a related increase in the number of cybercrimes, fraud, and malware schemes. Criminals like to hunt and plunder where there is money! If you hold cryptocurrency or are using Web3...
21 May 2025 4 minute read 0 comments 5h4d3
What is a Microcontroller (MCU)? Let’s cut through the noise. A microcontroller (MCU) is a small computer — a single chip that contains a processor (CPU), some memory (RAM and Flash), and input/output (I/O) pins you can use to connect to the real wor...
14 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
Compromising the hardware layer, especially the CPU, is the Holy Grail of cyberattacks. Recent work by Christiaan Beek, a leading cybersecurity researcher at Rapid7, into developing a ransomware proof-of-concept that infects at the hardware layer, i...
