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Dark Web Roast - August 2026 Edition
Dark Web Roast – August 2026 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · September 24, 2026 Executive Summary August 2026 was another month where the underground did most of our investigative work for us, and this time it barely required a magnifying glass. The headline act was comedyclub on...
Dark Web Roast - August 2026 Edition
Dark Web Roast – August 2026 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · September 24, 2026 Executive Summary August 2026 was another month where the underground did most of our investigative work for us, and this time it barely required a magnifying glass. The headline act was comedyclub on...
The Anatomy of HTML Attachment Phishing
The Anatomy of HTML Attachment Phishing: One Code, Many Variants By Niranjan Hegde and Sijo Jacob · June 14, 2023 This blog was also written by Mathanraj Thangaraju Introduction Phishing is the malevolent practise of pretending to be a reliable entity in electronic communication to steal sensitiv...
When the Directory Becomes the Weapon: Understanding NTDS.dit Theft
When the Directory Becomes the Weapon: Understanding NTDS.dit Theft By Maulik Maheta and Henry Bernabe · September 21, 2026 Executive Summary While adversaries continually update their attack tools, their fundamental techniques, such as extracting credentials from Active Directory's NTDS.dit and...
When the Directory Becomes the Weapon: Understanding NTDS.dit Theft
When the Directory Becomes the Weapon: Understanding NTDS.dit Theft By Maulik Maheta and Henry Bernabe · September 21, 2026 Executive Summary While adversaries continually update their attack tools, their fundamental techniques, such as extracting credentials from Active Directory's NTDS.dit and...
SideCopy Threat Intel: MSHTA-driven Execution and RAT Deployment
SideCopy Threat Intel: MSHTA-driven Execution and RAT Deployment By Boggavarapu R S S Srinivas Gupta and Ravishankar N C · September 17, 2026 Introduction The modern cyber warfare landscape has evolved significantly as threat actors pivot toward simple yet highly effective and evasive malware...
SideCopy Threat Intel: MSHTA-driven Execution and RAT Deployment
SideCopy Threat Intel: MSHTA-driven Execution and RAT Deployment By Boggavarapu R S S Srinivas Gupta and Ravishankar N C · September 17, 2026 Introduction The modern cyber warfare landscape has evolved significantly as threat actors pivot toward simple yet highly effective and evasive malware...
Trellix SecondSight Threat Hunting Report: How AI and Human Intelligence Expose 2026 Cyber Threats
Trellix SecondSight Threat Hunting Report: How AI and Human Intelligence Expose 2026 Cyber Threats By John Fokker and Adam Rocker · September 8, 2026 Threat hunting is changing. As adversaries adopt new technologies, techniques, and increasingly AI-enabled ways of operating, defenders have access...
Trellix SecondSight Threat Hunting Report: How AI and Human Intelligence Expose 2026 Cyber Threats
Trellix SecondSight Threat Hunting Report: How AI and Human Intelligence Expose 2026 Cyber Threats By John Fokker and Adam Rocker · September 8, 2026 Threat hunting is changing. As adversaries adopt new technologies, techniques, and increasingly AI-enabled ways of operating, defenders have access...
The Bug Report – August 2026 Edition
The Bug Report – August 2026 Edition By Jonathan Omakun · September 3, 2026 Why am I here? Sharpen your pencils and pull out those fresh notebooks; we're back with the bug report! Half the world is squeezing the last drops of joy out of their summer vacations, and the other half is on the...
The Bug Report – August 2026 Edition
The Bug Report – August 2026 Edition By Jonathan Omakun · September 3, 2026 Why am I here? Sharpen your pencils and pull out those fresh notebooks; we're back with the bug report! Half the world is squeezing the last drops of joy out of their summer vacations, and the other half is on the...
No Privileges, No Lockout, No Trace: Kerberoasting with SPN Misconfigurations
No Privileges, No Lockout, No Trace: Kerberoasting with SPN Misconfigurations By Maulik Maheta and Henry Bernabe · August 27, 2026 Executive Summary Active Directory misconfigurations are vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit before defenders notice them. This blog exposes a stealthier...
No Privileges, No Lockout, No Trace: Kerberoasting with SPN Misconfigurations
No Privileges, No Lockout, No Trace: Kerberoasting with SPN Misconfigurations By Maulik Maheta and Henry Bernabe · August 27, 2026 Executive Summary Active Directory misconfigurations are vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit before defenders notice them. This blog exposes a stealthier...
When Agents Go Rogue: The OpenClaw Supply Chain Crisis
When Agents Go Rogue: The OpenClaw Supply Chain Crisis By Aniket Choukde, Vikas Mishra and Yadunadh · August 19, 2026 This blog was also written by Akhil Reddy and Pavan Kumar Podila Executive Summary The cybersecurity landscape is currently undergoing a seismic shift driven by the adoption of...
When Agents Go Rogue: The OpenClaw Supply Chain Crisis
When Agents Go Rogue: The OpenClaw Supply Chain Crisis By Aniket Choukde, Vikas Mishra and Yadunadh · August 19, 2026 This blog was also written by Akhil Reddy and Pavan Kumar Podila Executive Summary The cybersecurity landscape is currently undergoing a seismic shift driven by the adoption of...
Stitching the Kill Chain: Detecting NTDS.dit Exfiltration with Trellix Helix Correlation
Stitching the Kill Chain: Detecting NTDS.dit Exfiltration with Trellix Helix Correlation By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · August 18, 2026 Executive Summary While attackers continuously cycle through new tooling, their underlying techniques remain remarkably consistent. Credential theft from...
Stitching the Kill Chain: Detecting NTDS.dit Exfiltration with Trellix Helix Correlation
Stitching the Kill Chain: Detecting NTDS.dit Exfiltration with Trellix Helix Correlation By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · August 18, 2026 Executive Summary While attackers continuously cycle through new tooling, their underlying techniques remain remarkably consistent. Credential theft from...
Signed, sealed, injected: The mechanics of DCRat in 2026
Signed, sealed, injected: The mechanics of DCRat in 2026 By Madhini Muralidharan, Shalaka Patil and Kaushal Sarda · August 13, 2026 Introduction In early 2026, the Trellix Advanced Research Center ARC identified and analyzed an active DarkCrystal RAT DCRat campaign following a critical customer...
Signed, sealed, injected: The mechanics of DCRat in 2026
Signed, sealed, injected: The mechanics of DCRat in 2026 By Madhini Muralidharan, Shalaka Patil and Kaushal Sarda · August 13, 2026 Introduction In early 2026, the Trellix Advanced Research Center ARC identified and analyzed an active DarkCrystal RAT DCRat campaign following a critical customer...
Weaponized AI: The Commoditization of Cybercrime
Weaponized AI: The Commoditization of Cybercrime By Jambul Tologonov · August 12, 2026 Executive Summary The Trellix Advanced Research Center has been actively monitoring dark web forums and criminal communication channels for emerging threats tied to artificial intelligence AI. What we are...
Weaponized AI: The Commoditization of Cybercrime
Weaponized AI: The Commoditization of Cybercrime By Jambul Tologonov · August 12, 2026 Executive Summary The Trellix Advanced Research Center has been actively monitoring dark web forums and criminal communication channels for emerging threats tied to artificial intelligence AI. What we are...
PureRAT: A Multi-Stage, Fileless RAT Utilizing Image Steganography and Process Hollowing
PureRAT: A Multi-Stage, Fileless RAT Utilizing Image Steganography and Process Hollowing By Prashanth A N and Mallikarjun Wali · April 20, 2026 PureRAT is an advanced remote access trojan RAT characterized by its complex infection stages. The intrusion sequence is initiated by a malicious .LNK fi...
PureRAT: A Multi-Stage, Fileless RAT Utilizing Image Steganography and Process Hollowing
PureRAT: A Multi-Stage, Fileless RAT Utilizing Image Steganography and Process Hollowing By Prashanth A N and Mallikarjun Wali · April 20, 2026 PureRAT is an advanced remote access trojan RAT characterized by its complex infection stages. The intrusion sequence is initiated by a malicious .LNK fi...
DCSync Detection Without Signatures: Trellix NDR and the Power of Technique-Based Defense
DCSync Detection Without Signatures: Trellix NDR and the Power of Technique-Based Defense By Maulik Maheta and Chao Sun · April 14, 2026 Executive summary A DCSync attack is one of the most formidable techniques an adversary can deploy after gaining a foothold in an Active Directory AD environmen...
DCSync Detection Without Signatures: Trellix NDR and the Power of Technique-Based Defense
DCSync Detection Without Signatures: Trellix NDR and the Power of Technique-Based Defense By Maulik Maheta and Chao Sun · April 14, 2026 Executive summary A DCSync attack is one of the most formidable techniques an adversary can deploy after gaining a foothold in an Active Directory AD environmen...
How A Simple Misconfiguration Can Fuel Offline Attacker Tools
How A Simple Misconfiguration Can Fuel Offline Attacker Tools By Grant McDonald · April 9, 2026 It’s no secret that misconfigurations are a gateway for attackers. But that doesn’t mean misconfigurations won’t happen or that attackers won’t attempt to exploit them. In the latest research from our...
Masjesu Rising: The Commercial IoT Botnet Built for Stealth, DDoS, and IoT Evasion
Masjesu Rising: The Commercial IoT Botnet Built for Stealth, DDoS, and IoT Evasion By Mohideen Abdul Khader F · April 7, 2026 Botnet overview The Masjesu botnet, a sophisticated, commercially-run Internet of Things IoT threat, has been operational and evolving since early 2023, continuing into...
Masjesu Rising: The Commercial IoT Botnet Built for Stealth, DDoS, and IoT Evasion
Masjesu Rising: The Commercial IoT Botnet Built for Stealth, DDoS, and IoT Evasion By Mohideen Abdul Khader F · April 7, 2026 Botnet overview The Masjesu botnet, a sophisticated, commercially-run Internet of Things IoT threat, has been operational and evolving since early 2023, continuing into...
The Ghost SPN Attack: Catching Stealthy Kerberoasting Before It's Too Late Using Trellix NDR
The Ghost SPN Attack: Catching Stealthy Kerberoasting Before It's Too Late Using Trellix NDR By Maulik Maheta and Henry Bernabe · March 23, 2026 Executive summary As organizations adopt an identity-first security posture, adversaries are increasingly exploiting the "identity fabric” using...
The Ghost SPN Attack: Catching Stealthy Kerberoasting Before It's Too Late Using Trellix NDR
The Ghost SPN Attack: Catching Stealthy Kerberoasting Before It's Too Late Using Trellix NDR By Maulik Maheta and Henry Bernabe · March 23, 2026 Executive summary As organizations adopt an identity-first security posture, adversaries are increasingly exploiting the "identity fabric” using...
Dark Web Roast February 2026 Edition
Dark Web Roast - February 2026 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · March 18, 2026 Executive Summary February 2026 delivered another stellar month in the ongoing theatre of the absurd that is the cybercriminal underground, where ransomware gangs bulk-scheduled their extortion like a...
Dark Web Roast February 2026 Edition
Dark Web Roast - February 2026 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · March 18, 2026 Executive Summary February 2026 delivered another stellar month in the ongoing theatre of the absurd that is the cybercriminal underground, where ransomware gangs bulk-scheduled their extortion like a...
Getting Roasted? Trellix Helix sees through AS-REP Attack
Getting Roasted? Trellix Helix sees through AS-REP Attack By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · March 17, 2026 Executive summary Threat actors regularly target Active Directory environments, continuously refining their toolsets and modifying attack frameworks to bypass security controls. However...
Getting Roasted? Trellix Helix sees through AS-REP Attack
Getting Roasted? Trellix Helix sees through AS-REP Attack By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · March 17, 2026 Executive summary Threat actors regularly target Active Directory environments, continuously refining their toolsets and modifying attack frameworks to bypass security controls. However...
Malware-As-A-Service Redefined: Why XWorm is outpacing every other RAT in the underground malware market
Malware-As-A-Service Redefined: Why XWorm is outpacing every other RAT in the underground malware market By Boggavarapu R S S Srinivas Gupta and Ravishankar N C · March 12, 2026 Introduction In the evolving landscape of cybercrime, threat actors are constantly pursuing the "perfect" weapon: malwa...
Malware-As-A-Service Redefined: Why XWorm is outpacing every other RAT in the underground malware market
Malware-As-A-Service Redefined: Why XWorm is outpacing every other RAT in the underground malware market By Boggavarapu R S S Srinivas Gupta and Ravishankar N C · March 12, 2026 Introduction In the evolving landscape of cybercrime, threat actors are constantly pursuing the "perfect" weapon: malwa...
Fileless Multi-Stage Remcos RAT: From Phishing to Memory-Resident Execution
Fileless Multi-Stage Remcos RAT: From Phishing to Memory-Resident Execution By Madhini Muralidharan · March 11, 2026 Traditional malware campaigns rely heavily on dropping executable files to disk—artifacts that defenders can scan, quarantine, and analyze with signature-based security tools. Mode...
The Anatomy of HTML Attachment Phishing
The Anatomy of HTML Attachment Phishing: One Code, Many Variants By Niranjan Hegde and Sijo Jacob · June 14, 2023 This blog was also written by Mathanraj Thangaraju Introduction Phishing is the malevolent practise of pretending to be a reliable entity in electronic communication to steal sensitiv...
Fileless Multi-Stage Remcos RAT: From Phishing to Memory-Resident Execution
Fileless Multi-Stage Remcos RAT: From Phishing to Memory-Resident Execution By Madhini Muralidharan · March 11, 2026 Traditional malware campaigns rely heavily on dropping executable files to disk—artifacts that defenders can scan, quarantine, and analyze with signature-based security tools. Mode...
The Iranian Cyber Capability 2026
The Iranian Cyber Capability 2026 By John Fokker and Ernesto Fernández Provecho · March 5, 2026 Introduction In 2024, we published an assessment of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s cyber capabilities, outlining the structure, tradecraft, and strategic intent of Iranian-aligned threat actors. The co...
The Iranian Cyber Capability 2026
The Iranian Cyber Capability 2026 By John Fokker and Ernesto Fernández Provecho · March 5, 2026 Introduction In 2024, we published an assessment of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s cyber capabilities, outlining the structure, tradecraft, and strategic intent of Iranian-aligned threat actors. The co...
Turf Wars vs. Supply Chains: The Great Divergence in State Cyber Threats
Turf Wars vs. Supply Chains: The Great Divergence in State Cyber Threats By Ryan Slaney and Emma DeCarli · February 18, 2026 For years, the cybersecurity community has treated advanced persistent threat APT groups as monoliths. We assumed that if we found a specific Russian tool, we were fighting...
Turf Wars vs. Supply Chains: The Great Divergence in State Cyber Threats
Turf Wars vs. Supply Chains: The Great Divergence in State Cyber Threats By Ryan Slaney and Emma DeCarli · February 18, 2026 For years, the cybersecurity community has treated advanced persistent threat APT groups as monoliths. We assumed that if we found a specific Russian tool, we were fighting...
Technical Deep Dive: The Monero Mining Campaign
Technical Deep Dive: The Monero Mining Campaign By Aswath A · February 17, 2026 Executive summary In the contemporary threat landscape, while ransomware grabs headlines with high-impact disruptions, cryptojacking operations have quietly evolved into sophisticated, persistent threats. This report...
Technical Deep Dive: The Monero Mining Campaign
Technical Deep Dive: The Monero Mining Campaign By Aswath A · February 17, 2026 Executive summary In the contemporary threat landscape, while ransomware grabs headlines with high-impact disruptions, cryptojacking operations have quietly evolved into sophisticated, persistent threats. This report...
The Bug Report - January 2026 Edition
The Bug Report – January 2026 Edition By Jonathan Omakun · February 12, 2026 Why am I here? Welcome back to The Bug Report, the post-holiday edition, where we realize that while our resolutions to "go to the gym" have already failed, hackers’ resolutions to "break everything" are going strong. Fo...
The Bug Report - January 2026 Edition
The Bug Report – January 2026 Edition By Jonathan Omakun · February 12, 2026 Why am I here? Welcome back to The Bug Report, the post-holiday edition, where we realize that while our resolutions to "go to the gym" have already failed, hackers’ resolutions to "break everything" are going strong. Fo...
Dark Web Roast - January 2026 Edition
Dark Web Roast - January 2026 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · February 11, 2026 Executive Summary Welcome to January 2026's underground intelligence roundup, where criminal masterminds continue to demonstrate that the phrase "honour among thieves" remains the greatest oxymoron in...
Dark Web Roast - January 2026 Edition
Dark Web Roast - January 2026 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · February 11, 2026 Executive Summary Welcome to January 2026's underground intelligence roundup, where criminal masterminds continue to demonstrate that the phrase "honour among thieves" remains the greatest oxymoron in...
When SPNs Go Rogue: Detection and Remediation with Trellix NDR
When SPNs Go Rogue: Detection and Remediation with Trellix NDR By Maulik Maheta and Henry Bernabe · February 10, 2026 Executive summary Service Principal Names SPNs are essential for Kerberos authentication in Active Directory AD, but misconfigurations, such as assigning SPNs to standard user...