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Customer Account Takeover (ATO) in Indian Banking: Kill Chain and Detection

The 7-step ATO kill chain — credentials, auth, OTP capture, account exploration, beneficiary addition, transaction, mule chain. SQL detection at each step…

Apr 25, 2026 · 2 min read
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UPI Fraud Patterns in 2026: Collect-Request, QR-Swap, SIM-Swap

Dominant UPI fraud patterns — collect-request scams, QR-swap at merchants, SIM-swap leading to OTP capture, KYC scams, mule account chains. NPCI controls…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read
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SharePoint CVE-2024-38094: Why On-Prem SharePoint Stays a Target

SharePoint Server's recent CVE roster — 2019-0604, 2023-29357 chain, 2024-38094 — shows the on-prem attack surface persists. Detection, mitigation, and the migration…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read
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theHarvester and Recon-ng: OSINT Toolchain in 2026

theHarvester for breadth-of-source aggregation; Recon-ng for workflow continuity across investigation. Where they fit alongside modern tools (subfinder, amass, SpiderFoot, Maltego) in 2026…

Apr 25, 2026 · 2 min read
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MOVEit Transfer (CVE-2023-34362): The Cl0p Mass Exploitation Story

Cl0p exploited MOVEit Transfer's SQLi as a zero-day, compromising 2,000+ organisations including Indian-market third parties. The vulnerability, why it spread so far,…

Apr 25, 2026 · 2 min read
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Confluence CVE-2023-22515 / 22518: When Internal Wikis Become Ransomware Targets

Two Atlassian Confluence CVEs in late 2023 enabled mass-exploitation by ransomware operators. Bug walkthrough, IoCs, mitigation, and the migration question for Confluence…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read
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OSINT Methodology for Pentesters: The 2026 Toolchain

Practitioner OSINT methodology — subdomain enumeration with subfinder/amass, live discovery with httpx, vulnerability scanning with nuclei, people enumeration with theHarvester, GitHub secrets…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read
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Sock Puppet Accounts for OSINT Investigations: OPSEC and Ethics

Operational sock puppet accounts for OSINT — the OPSEC stack (browser profile, VPN, email, phone, fingerprint), believable persona building, attribution mistakes, legal/ethical…

Apr 25, 2026 · 4 min read
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Evilginx2 + AiTM Phishing: How Modern Attacks Defeat MFA

Adversary-in-the-Middle phishing captures both credentials and session cookies during auth flow — defeating traditional MFA. How AiTM works, detection limits, and why…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read
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Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) Phishing: Why Users Still Fall for It

BitB renders fake browser popup windows inside the actual browser tab. Users see legitimate URLs in the fake popup and trust them.…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read