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Behind the Fake Tax Notice - Part II: ValleyRAT Unmasked

In Part I of this series — “Behind the Fake Tax Notice” — the Foresiet Threat Intelligence Team mapped a multi-country, tax- and invoice-themed phishing network built around hxxps://adresesvip/. That infrastructure, hosted on Alibaba Cloud in Hong Kong, was used to target taxpayers across India, Germany, Malaysia and Japan. The first report documented the lure, the sender and the hosting, but left one question open: what does the campaign actually deliver?

Why Direct Booking Technology Is the Future of Short-Term Rentals

For most of the last decade, listing on Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com wasn't optional for short-term rental hosts. It was the only realistic way to get seen. That came at a price: commission fees eating into every booking, plus a guest relationship the host never actually owned. It's a fundamental restructuring of the relationship between hosts, guests and the platforms that sit between them, and it's changing the benefits of owning a rental property in the process. Direct booking tools that were once out of reach for anything but large property management companies are now accessible to independent hosts running one or two properties.

Managed SOC Services: Your 2026 Selection Guide

The managed security services market is projected to reach US$ 87.9 Billion by 2033, up from US$ 41.3 Billion in 2026 at an 11.4% CAGR according to Persistence Market Research. That number matters because it reframes managed SOC services from a niche outsourcing decision into a mainstream operating model for security teams that can't afford blind spots, delayed response, or constant hiring battles.

BlackMatter Ransomware Explained: Delivery Methods, Tactics, and Targets

Emerging in July 2021, BlackMatter is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform that permits the developers of the ransomware to generate income through the actions of their cybercriminal associates, referred to as BlackMatter actors, who utilize it against targets. BlackMatter is potentially a reimagining of DarkSide, another RaaS that remained operational from September 2020 to May 2021.

Payroll Platforms Hold Your Most Sensitive Data - Here's How to Vet Them

Few business systems contain as much sensitive information as payroll software. Employee salaries, bank account details, tax records, home addresses, government identification numbers, benefits information, and employment history are all stored in one place. A single security weakness can expose data that affects not only the business but every employee on the payroll.

A Practical Image-to-Video Prompt System for AI Animation

An image-to-video prompt should direct motion without destroying the strengths of the source image. The model already has information about the subject, composition, and style; the prompt must explain what changes over time and what should remain fixed. This principle applies across product shots, character animation, anime scenes, and flexibleuncensored ai workflows. More adjectives do not necessarily create better video. Clear priorities do.

5-Hour Online Pre-Licensing Course - How Registration, Timing, and ID Verification Actually Work

New York rolled out an online version of its 5-hour pre-licensing course a few years back, and on paper it sounds like the easy option: no classroom, no fixed schedule, just log in and get through the material. In practice, the state built in a set of checks that a lot of first-time applicants never see coming, and a couple of deadlines that do not bend for anyone. None of it is designed to trip people up, but the 5 hour online pre-licensing course runs on rules that reward knowing them in advance and punish finding them out the hard way.

Detection Engineering: Build Robust Programs & Best

Your SOC probably already has detections. The problem is that many of them don't behave like a managed security capability. They behave like a pile of alerts. Analysts close noisy rules because they have to protect their queue. Engineers keep adding logic because coverage gaps are real. Leaders ask whether the program is improving, and the usual answers are weak. Alert counts go up. Tuning tickets pile up.

Authentication Bypass in the default configuration phpBB

June 10th, we announced a critical vulnerability in phpBB that lets attackers bypass authentication, now known as CVE-2026-48611. This post is a follow-up, containing technical details that explain exploit scenarios and detection methods. To get you up to speed, phpBB is an old forum software that's still being used today by various technical communities. phpBB's Site Showcase alone has over 6 million members.

CASB vs DLP: Key Differences and When to Use Each

Security leaders evaluating cloud access security broker (CASB) and data loss prevention (DLP) tools often discover the two categories overlap just enough to create budget friction and just little enough to leave real gaps. A CASB can flag risky file-sharing behavior in Salesforce without ever inspecting the content inside the file. A traditional DLP tool can classify that same file as containing source code without knowing whether the sharing link is public.