Ransomware has evolved into a global criminal industry that operates more like a Fortune 500 company than a street gang. Built on a franchise model known as Ransomware as a Service (RaaS), these groups provide malware, infrastructure, customer support, and even brand management to affiliates. As attackers become more organized and sophisticated, defenders including law enforcement, cyber insurers, and threat intelligence teams have been forced to evolve just as quickly.

Most malicious scanners are looking for real vulnerabilities and leaks, so I gave them as much as they could ask for. With the help of AI, you can nearly instantly generate any data being requested. With a single ChatGPT/Claude subscription and a Digital Ocean instance, the most annoying honeypot was possible. Back in 2023, I bought a .zip domain name when they first came out. There was a lot of buzz that these domains would be used almost exclusively for malicious activity,

It’s the year 2026 and the war on the Chatbots is in full swing. I constantly see articles about who is the best AI, but I honestly don’t know what is marketing and what is true. For that reason, I decided to take the contest into my own hands. So how do you determine who is the smartest? The same way we have decided who is the smartest all through history: Trivia Night. But this is AI, so we don’t need to wait for Thursday night at the bar. We can have trivia tonight, tomorr

Before I was a penetration tester, I was an Android Developer, and before I was an Android developer, I was an Enterprise Analyst. The thing is, I never stopped doing enterprise analytics. I've been doing consulting work for various start-ups for the past 10 years. I have helped companies deliver data to customers, measure the performance of pilots, and raise additional rounds of funding by creating compelling stories from their data. If you're a company that produces any dat

I was recently introduced to an automation tool called n8n (read nodemation ). It’s a no-code automation platform that uses nodes to...