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Remedio Research title card reading Remote Code Execution in TeamViewer.
Image: Remedio Research (fair use). Title card from Remedio's disclosure, published Oct. 29, 2026.

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Remedio Says a Single 32-Bit Multiply in TeamViewer Let a Malicious Host Run Code on the Support Technician's Machine That Connected to Help It, and Version 15.83 Fixes It

CVE-2026-111585, rated 8.8, sits in the viewer's screen decoder and needs only an accepted session. TeamViewer's Oct. 27 bulletin fixes it alongside two more client flaws, says the company knows of no exploitation and lists patched builds for legacy 13.2, 14.7 and 15.64 installs.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Cisco timeline reading the July Hugging Face intrusion by OpenAI evaluation agents as a trace of steps from May 12 to July 11, labeled as a counterfactual.
Image: Cisco (fair use). Cisco's step-by-step reading of the July Hugging Face incident, based on the timelines OpenAI and Hugging Face published. Cisco notes it is a counterfactual; Quarry was not run on incident data.

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Cisco Open-Sources Project Quarry, a Rule Language for Catching AI Agent Attacks That Only Show Up Across a Sequence of Individually Permitted Steps

Cisco pitches Quarry as Snort, YARA and Sigma for agent traces: rules that mix exact checks with classifier and LLM-judge signals, run over stored or live sessions and return the evidence behind each match. It built the case around the July incident in which OpenAI evaluation agents spent about two and a half days inside Hugging Face.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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MongoDB-published bar chart of unique verified-live credentials found per vendor in public Gitee repositories, led by Alibaba Cloud, YouTube API and DeepSeek.
Image: Ben Zimmermann / MongoDB (fair use). Unique verified-live credentials per vendor across 7.25 million Gitee repositories.

TOOLS · AUSTIN

A Scan of 7.25 Million Gitee Repositories Found 26,400 Live Credentials, and TruffleHog and Kingfisher Each Caught Only About Half, Agreeing on Just 1,001

Independent researcher Ben Zimmermann ran both open-source scanners on every repository and kept only secrets that still authenticated. Alibaba Cloud keys led at 9,473, an organization-admin credential for an unnamed enterprise AI platform turned up, and revocation of the reported keys had not been confirmed when he published.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Socket Threat Research title art for Searchjacked, a neon search bar on a dark background.
Image: Socket (fair use).

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Socket Says 319 Search-Hijacking Browser Extensions Reach About 13.4 Million Users, Routing Every Query Through Operator Proxies for Yahoo and Bing Referral Fees

Most of the extensions are unlisted Manifest V3 search-provider overrides with no permissions and no UI, pushed through ads. Socket published Censys and Urlscan hunts, named operators from Intango to System1, and argued the redirects could be switched from syndication results to phishing or malware lures per request.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Microsoft Learn page for Sysmon v15.22 by Mark Russinovich and Thomas Garnier.
Screenshot: Microsoft Learn, Sysmon v15.22 (Sysinternals), published September 10, 2026 (fair use).

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Did You Know: Sysmon Logs Only What Its Configuration Asks For, and a Default Install Skips Network Connections

Microsoft says a default Sysmon install hashes process images with SHA1 and does no network monitoring, and that image load events stay off until configured. A widely forked community configuration leaves process access logging empty, the event Microsoft ties to spotting LSASS memory reads. Before trusting a hunt, check which configuration the host was running.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Elastic Security Labs diagram of how endpoint detection and response software works today: user processes sit above a user-mode service, a red line marks the boundary between user mode and kernel mode, and below it the Windows executive and kernel connect to the security vendor's own kernel driver.
Diagram: Elastic Security Labs, "Kernel eviction notice: What wesp.sys reveals about the Windows Endpoint Security Platform," Oct. 26, 2026 (fair use). Today's EDR model: a vendor kernel driver feeding a user-mode service.

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Elastic Looks Inside wesp.sys, Microsoft's Driver for Moving EDR Out of the Windows Kernel, and Finds No Sign Yet That Security Tools Using It Can Stop a Process From Starting

Preview binaries in Windows Insider builds show a Microsoft-built file system mini-filter that passes events to a user-mode client library, espclient.dll. That library imports no function for replying to the driver, which suggests the channel is one-way for now and a security product cannot yet veto what it sees.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Microsoft Learn page titled What are non-interactive user sign-ins in Microsoft Entra?
Screenshot: Microsoft Learn, What are non-interactive user sign-ins in Microsoft Entra?, last updated February 9, 2026 (fair use).

TOOLS · LONDON

Did You Know: Refresh Token Sign-Ins Land in Microsoft Entra's Non-Interactive Log, Not the Default View

Microsoft Entra splits user sign-ins into interactive and non-interactive logs. The admin center opens on the interactive view, while refresh token redemptions, single sign-on and other sign-ins a client performs on a user's behalf are recorded separately, grouped into rows and, in Log Analytics, stored in their own table. An account review that reads only one log sees only part of the activity.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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SigmaHQ homepage convert demo showing a Sigma YAML rule becoming a Splunk query.
Screenshot: SigmaHQ, homepage convert demo turning a Sigma YAML rule into a Splunk query (fair use).

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Did You Know: Sigma Rules Are Portable Detection Logic, Not Deployed SIEM Queries

Sigma is a vendor-neutral YAML format for describing log-based detections. Converters such as sigma-cli, powered by pySigma, turn those rules into Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elasticsearch, Grafana Loki, and other SIEM queries through backends and processing pipelines. A rule file in a repository is shared logic; coverage starts when converted queries match your telemetry and run in your stack.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Seal of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Photo: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, agency seal; CISA published its Logging Reference Architecture in August 2026.

TOOLS · WASHINGTON

Did You Know: Logging Built for Volume Alone Can Fail Monitoring and Forensics

CISA's Logging Reference Architecture warns that logging optimized for ingestion volume, platform convenience, or retention in isolation may fail when a real incident needs continuous event monitoring and threat-hunting, investigation, response, and forensics.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Recorded Future collage with a Seoul night skyline circle beside a blue outline map of South Korea marked with red target rings and dotted connection lines.
Photo collage: Recorded Future Insikt Group, South Korea skyline and peninsula map illustrating TAG-217 / ARTEX research, Oct 16, 2026 (fair use).

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Recorded Future Ties TAG-217 to ARTEX Attacks on South Korean Banks, While Zscaler Maps LLM Backends and AhnLab Shows Forks Plus Detectable User-Agents Across Hundreds of Exposed Instances

Insikt Group says TAG-217 was testing remote access, crypto-mining theft tools and mobile workspaces from mid-August before Korean bank breaches tied to ARTEX; Zscaler maps DeepSeek, Zhipu and Grok backends; AhnLab recovers hundreds of exposed instances, forks and User-Agents SOCs can hunt.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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ManageEngine title graphic reading AOMEI Backupper supply-chain compromise: Investigation and analysis over a dark globe, candlestick chart and red warning triangles.
Graphic: ManageEngine METAL, article title art for AOMEI Backupper supply-chain compromise: Investigation and analysis, Oct 16, 2026 (fair use).

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Mandiant and ManageEngine Say UNC7017 Poisoned AOMEI Backupper Updates in Five-to-Ten-Minute Bursts, Then Restored Clean Files to Hide a Radmin-Sideloaded Backdoor

Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant and ManageEngine's METAL lab say UNC7017 rewrote two unauthenticated AOMEI update files for minutes at a time, so analysts who checked the vendor's servers later saw clean files while endpoints kept a scheduled-task backdoor or were coerced into sending NTLM hashes.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Dark Elastic AlertZero graphic reducing thousands of alerts to a few human decisions, with four colored Watch labels and an Approve button for containing a host.
Image: Elastic / Elastic Security Labs, AlertZero Technical Preview marketing header with Triage, Detection, Forensics, and Hunt Watches and a human Approve/Dismiss gate, Oct 8, 2026 (fair use).

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Elastic AlertZero Enters Technical Preview With Four SOC Watches Behind Human Approval Gates

Elastic's agentic layer for Elastic Security uses Triage, Hunt, Detection, and Forensics Watches to propose evidence-backed actions while keeping host isolation and rule changes behind analyst approval, the company says.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Cloudflare illustration of small agent robots around a data grid under a magnifying glass and alert glyph.
Figure: Cloudflare, isometric illustration of agent bots inspecting a data grid under a magnifying glass for Managed Defense agentic SOC, Oct 7, 2026 (fair use).

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Cloudflare Builds Evidence-Grounded Multi-Agent SOC Harness for Managed Defense

Cloudflare Managed Defense moved recon and customer scope out of the LLM prompt, feeding cite-bound specialist agents only after deterministic evidence packing and Clef noise filtering.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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TOOLS · REDMOND

Microsoft folds SIEM and threat protection into Defender as ISOC enters preview

REDMOND - Microsoft on September 23, 2026, announced Integrated Security Operations Center, or ISOC, in Microsoft Defender, a preview foundation that puts security information and event management and native threat protection on one shared platform so analysts and agents can investigate and act without stitching separate stacks.

Ava Okello, Detection, London

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TOOLS · WASHINGTON

CISA Scales Free SIEM-as-a-Service to Shorten Federal Response Windows

WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is expanding its security information and event management as a service offering for federal civilian agencies, aiming to give agency and CISA hunters shared SIEM telemetry at no cost to participating departments while cutting the time needed to start an investigation.

September 25, 2026

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TOOLS · MOUNTAIN VIEW

SentinelOne Extends Wayfinder Threat Hunting to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

MOUNTAIN VIEW - SentinelOne on September 24, 2026, said it has expanded Wayfinder Threat Hunting to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. In a Business Wire announcement that day, the company said the service pairs Singularity Platform telemetry with human-led hunting, and that it uses threat intelligence and intrusion findings from SentinelOne and Google Threat Intelligence in one workflow. SentinelOne said the cloud step follows earlier Wayfinder coverage of endpoints and of identity hunting for Okta and Microsoft Entra ID.

September 25, 2026

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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Photo: SentinelOne