A defender’s view of the Famous Chollima / Nickel Tapestry IT worker scheme as it looks in 2026 — the telemetry that actually catches it, the false positives that swamp you in week one, and where it sits in the 800-53 catalog.
TeamPCP — the supply-chain crew behind the Trivy / Checkmarx / KICS / LiteLLM compromises and the Shai-Hulud worm — surfaced a sale listing on May 19, 2026 claiming roughly 4,000 GitHub private repositories of internal source code. The claim is pending verification, the ESIX score is 7.96, and the group’s track record is exactly the mix of ‘demonstrably capable’ and ‘inclined to repackage’ that makes this kind of listing operationally annoying. Here’s the read.
A defender-side look at where PRC pre-positioning campaigns against critical infrastructure stand heading into 2026, what living-off-the-land actually looks like in the SIEM, and which tuning calls separate the teams that catch it from the teams that don’t.
Image-mode RHEL and bootc move /usr to a read-only ostree commit and turn host updates into container pulls. That fixes one class of problem and creates a different one for defenders. Here is what actually changes on disk, what to detect, and where the model breaks.
A defender-oriented look at where HTTP/2-to-HTTP/1.1 request smuggling sits in 2026 — the parser-differential class that keeps finding new homes, what the detection actually looks like in Splunk, and what most teams miss on the first tuning pass.
Chaotic Eclipse dropped two unpatched Windows zero-days on May 13, 2026. YellowKey turns an NTFS transaction log on a USB stick into a BitLocker bypass through WinRE — physical access, no recovery key, no PIN required on TPM-only boxes. GreenPlasma is the companion privilege escalation through CTFMON. No CVEs, no patches, and a researcher who has promised more for June’s Patch Tuesday.
Device Bound Session Credentials are landing in Chrome and Edge, but the gap between the protocol promise and what your SIEM sees is wider than the vendor decks suggest. A defender-oriented look at what detection actually requires right now.
A defender-oriented walkthrough of investigating adversary-in-the-middle token theft against Entra ID now that token protection, CAE, and device-bound sessions are widely on — what the logs actually contain, what the first detection misses, and where the artifacts live outside Entra.
ClickFix initial access has been pasting PowerShell into RunMRU for two years and most detection content still treats it like a primer. Here is what the telemetry actually looks like, what tunes out, and where teams keep getting it wrong.
A defender-oriented analysis of indirect prompt injection in tool-calling agents: where the signal actually lives in the trace pipeline, what the first week of tuning has to fix, and which 800-53 controls the implementation maps to.
