RRyan Beglau1d ago · 13 min readYour Door Badges Are on the NetworkBetween October 17 and October 26, 2026, ransomware closed three school districts and sent two hospitals back to paper. In Idaho the attackers took the cameras, the door locks and the heat before anyoryanoninfrastructure.hashnode.dev
4404 Founders2d ago · 10 min readVeeam CVE-2026-108142: Unauthenticated CDP Service BypassOn 27 October 2026 Veeam patched CVE-2026-108142, a CVSS 9.1 flaw in the CDP Coordinator Service of Veeam Backup & Replication 13 through which an unauthenticated attacker can bypass authorization. Bu404-founders.com
CCyber Knight4d ago · 5 min readThe Help Desk That Wasn't There: How a Teams Message Became Ransomware in Under 17 HoursYour inbox fills first. Hundreds of messages, all at once. Newsletter confirmations. Subscription receipts. Things you never signed up for, arriving faster than you can delete them. It looks like some11Fnulltrace.hashnode.dev
4404 Founders5d ago · 8 min readGlobalProtect CVE-2026-0257: Your VPN's TLS Certificate Is the Key to Its Own BypassPalo Alto Networks disclosed CVE-2026-0257 on 13 May 2026 and shipped fixes through 28 May. Five months later, Qilin and Inc ransomware operators are using it to walk into networks without credentials404-founders.com
CCyber KnightOct 23 · 4 min readThe Firm That Audits Everyone's Risk Just Landed on a Ransomware Leak SiteNobody expects the auditors to get audited. On October 22, a new name appeared on the Everest ransomware group's leak site — and it made incident-response people across the world pause mid-scroll: PwCnulltrace.hashnode.dev
KKazem MortazaviOct 19 · 2 min readWhy Backups Alone No Longer Stop RansomwareRansomware is no longer just about locked files. Modern ransomware groups usually steal data first and encrypt it second, then threaten to publish what they took. That changes the math: a complete bacsecurityland.hashnode.dev
4404 FoundersOct 16 · 4 min readThe Weekend the Grocery Sector BrokeSunday night in France, supermarket managers got a refrigerator alarm - the kind nobody drills for. The freezers were heating up. By the morning of October 12, freezers in hundreds of stores had climb404-founders.com
VVikram Kumar ShuklaOct 16 · 4 min readA brand-new ransomware group just put 38 shipping companies on one hit list. Monday is the deadline.On 12 October, a ransomware operation most people had never heard of did something unusual: it named 38 companies at once. Not one victim, dripped out over weeks. Thirty-eight, in a single post. The gvikramkumarshukla.hashnode.dev
4404 FoundersOct 15 · 10 min readA Ransomware Affiliate Ran C2 Through an AI Coding Assistant. Here Is How.Azazel's double life as a Gentlemen ransomware affiliate exposed a CI/CD secrets problem, a Kubernetes harvest chain, and - an alleged use of MCP as a command-and-control channel, as described in Clou404-founders.com
4404 FoundersOct 11 · 6 min readThe Second Ransom: Inside the Alleged MonsterCloud Recovery FraudWhen Fabian Wosar wanted to find out whether ransomware recovery firms were secretly paying hackers, he didn't file a FOIA request. He wrote malware. In December 2016, Wosar and a colleague created a 404-founders.com
