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Top Data Breaches in 2025 [Month-wise]
A data breach. Headlines scream, investors and customers panic, fingers get pointed, and goodwill gets affected. Do you know how much a data breach can affect a company? Data breaches have become a constant threat in our ever-connected world, and 2025 has been no different. From tech giants to gover
Social Engineering Penetration Testing Guide
A social engineering penetration testing field guide: building an OSINT pretext, running an authorized GoPhish campaign, mapping to MITRE ATT&CK T1566, and the metrics that prove resilience.
Top CVEs of November 2025
Security teams barely got a break in November. High-severity alerts kept popping up, ranging from active Windows kernel exploits to urgent cloud infrastructure flaws. With so many patches releasing at once, identifying the most dangerous threats is essential for protecting your network. The followin
CVE-2025-55182: React2Shell RCE Demands Immediate Security Action
React2Shell exposes a fundamental flaw in how React Server Components interpret untrusted data, turning a routine hydration step into a reliable remote execution pathway. Introduction If you work with React, Next.js, or any framework that leans on React Server Components (RSC), this is the one vulne
IoT Penetration Testing Guide
An IoT penetration testing field guide: binwalk firmware extraction, cracking /etc/shadow with hashcat, dropping to a U-Boot root shell, flashrom SPI dumps, and open MQTT brokers.
Top Data Breaches of November 2025
Data breaches recorded a high-impact breach across apparel brands, analytics platforms, food-delivery networks, cloud providers, and major financial institutions. These incidents exposed sensitive customer data, internal records, and operational details, showing how easily exposure spreads when vend
The Dark Side of Discounts: Mapping the Black Friday Cybercrime Economy
Black Friday creates a shift that most enterprises feel long before the sale begins. Traffic climbs. Product teams release updates faster. New landing pages, offers, and integrations move into production with tight timelines. These changes are normal for revenue growth, but they also widen exposure
Root Detection in Android Apps - Security Benefits, Challenges, and Implementation Strategies
Among the most debated questions in the constantly changing mobile application development, whether to include root detection in the application is a seemingly important choice to both developers and security teams. This is not just a technical option, but it has far-reaching consequences in terms o
Why Organizations Are Moving to CTEM
Security teams are facing exposure patterns that form and spread far faster than traditional assessment cycles can handle. A misconfigured cloud role created during an early-morning deployment can expose sensitive permissions before lunch. A forgotten internet-exposed asset can be scanned by automat
Thick Client Penetration Testing Guide
A field guide to thick client penetration testing: decompiling .NET with dnSpy, Frida auth hooks, named-pipe DACL abuse, and the report-grade findings that come out of it.
Identifying Security Misconfigurations in Enterprise Networks
Verizon's DBIR ties a large share of breaches to misconfiguration, not zero-days. Here are the enterprise network misconfigurations testers find most, with the exploit output and the GPO-level fixes.
Top Data Breaches of October 2025
October 2025 brought significant data breaches. From universities and airlines to healthcare providers and enterprise systems, multiple high-impact incidents exposed millions of records across industries. These breaches highlight recurring issues, such as third-party risks, delayed patching, exposed