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Ransomware Economics 2026 — Payment Rates Down, Pressure Up, India Now Top-5 Victim Geography
Ransomware economics in 2026: payment rates dropped to 28%, average payment rose to K, exfil-only model replacing classic encrypt-and-extort. Affiliate economy structure,…
Blue TeamCloudflare-Fronted Phishing in 2026 — How Workers, Pages, Tunnels, and R2 Became Default Phishing Infrastructure
Cloudflare free-tier products (Workers, Pages, Trycloudflare, R2) have become dominant phishing infrastructure of 2024-2026. The five abuse vectors, why URL categorisation fails,…
ComplianceDPDP Rules 2026 Notified — What Changed from the Draft, What Every Indian Data Fiduciary Must Operationalise Now
The DPDP Rules under MeitY notification clarified consent format, breach notification timelines, SDF criteria, and cross-border transfer regime. What changed from the…
AI SecurityAI-Generated Malware in 2026 — Real Evidence, FUD, and Where Defenders Should Actually Invest
AI-generated malware is the most overstated threat category of 2026. The verifiable AI-amplified attacks: phishing email quality, voice cloning, deepfake KYC bypass.…
Blue TeamEDR Bypass Techniques 2026 — What Microsoft Actually Killed and What Still Works
EDR-bypass techniques in 2026 cluster around BYOVD, syscall unhooking, DLL sideloading, and cloud-service-fronted C2. What Microsoft 11 + HVCI actually killed in…
AcademySliver C2 Operator Guide — Implants, Transports, OPSEC, and the Detection Patterns Blue Teams Should Hunt
Sliver is the open-source post-Cobalt-Strike C2 framework — accessible to Indian red teams without licensing barriers, and the most-abused C2 after CS…
AcademyBurp Suite Pro 2026 — Five Production Bambdas and Three Custom BChecks (Paste-Ready)
Burp Bambdas (per-request JavaScript) and BChecks (YAML scanner checks) are the highest-leverage features in Burp Pro 2026. Five paste-ready Bambdas (sensitive data,…
AcademyCaido for Web Pentest — A Modern Alternative to Burp Suite Pro (Hands-On Walkthrough)
Caido is the first credible challenger to Burp Suite Pro — Rust-built, web UI, multi-tester collaboration. Architecture comparison, workflow-by-workflow analysis of where…
AcademyLLM Jailbreaks 2026 — Universal Suffixes, Many-Shot, Crescendo, and What Constitutional AI Actually Stops
LLM jailbreak research in 2026: GCG universal suffixes, AutoDAN, many-shot context-poisoning, Crescendo multi-turn, multimodal vision attacks. Why alignment is structurally defence-in-depth, the…
AcademyIndirect Prompt Injection — When Documents, Emails, and Tool Outputs Become the Attacker
Indirect prompt injection lives in third-party content the model reads — documents, emails, web pages, tool outputs. Why traditional input validation fails,…