Threat Intelligence · 82 articles

Threat Intelligence

Recent CVEs, active exploitation campaigns, threat actor TTPs, IOC analysis.

Blue Team

Recent Ransomware Groups Targeting Indian SaaS in 2026

Active ransomware groups hitting Indian organisations — RansomHub, Akira, Play / 8base / BlackSuit. Common kill chain (initial access via VPN/RDP, Cobalt…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Threat Intelligence

Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965): Why It’s Still Hitting Java in 2026

Spring4Shell was disclosed in March 2022. Vulnerable Spring still found in Indian enterprise audits in 2026, particularly legacy Java apps and vendor…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Threat Intelligence

Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) in 2026: Detection and Exploitation

SSTI test methodology — canary payloads for Jinja2, Twig, Smarty, Freemarker, Velocity, ERB, Razor. Where SSTI hides (email templates, error messages, report…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Threat Intelligence

Python Pickle Deserialization: The 20-Year-Old Footgun

Pickle on untrusted input is RCE by design. Where it hides — cache layers, session storage, Celery task arguments, ML models, cookie…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Red Teaming

ProxyShell: The Exchange Vulnerability That Fueled Ransomware

ProxyShell (CVE-2021-34473/34523/31207) chain — pre-auth RCE on Exchange. Why it became ransomware fuel, IoCs (webshells in Exchange directories, anomalous PowerShell remoting), patching…

Apr 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Red Teaming

DirtyPipe (CVE-2022-0847): Why This 3-Year-Old Linux Kernel CVE Still Hits Indian Production

DirtyPipe was disclosed in March 2022. The fix has been available for three years. Yet 1 in 5 Indian Linux pentests still…

Apr 25, 2026 · 6 min read
Red Teaming

PrintNightmare in 2026: The Bug Class Microsoft Couldn’t Quite Kill

PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-1675/34527) was supposed to die in 2021. Print Spooler bugs continue producing new CVEs every year. The bug, the variants since…

Apr 25, 2026 · 5 min read
Threat Intelligence

Log4Shell 4 Years Later: Why It’s Still in 15% of Indian Enterprise Audits

Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) was disclosed in December 2021. Four years on, 15-20% of Indian enterprise audits still find vulnerable Log4j. The bug, modern…

Apr 25, 2026 · 6 min read
DPDP Compliance

Incident Response Runbook: Data Exfiltration Under DPDP (India)

Data exfiltration incidents were difficult enough before the DPDP Act 2023. Now they carry statutory teeth: notification obligations to the Data Protection…

Apr 20, 2026 · 7 min read
Security Guides

Incident Response Runbook: Credential Compromise & Session Hijack

Credential compromise rarely announces itself. Ransomware comes with a note; credential theft comes with a successful login from an unexpected IP, an…

Apr 20, 2026 · 7 min read