A backend misconfiguration exposed millions of API keys, session tokens, and user emails in plain sight. What developers missed, attackers found in minutes. This is what happens when novelty outruns fundamentals.
Cybersecurity didn’t fail because attackers evolved faster. It failed because many of our assumptions stopped being questioned. Rethink Month opens with a reflection on trust, habit, and why real security progress starts by challenging what feels “normal.”
Zombie identities are accounts and tokens that simulate real users long after their purpose is gone. This technical deep dive explains how they emerge in code, why they break recovery, and how attackers abuse them.
JWT audience confusion allows valid tokens to be reused across services, breaking identity boundaries without breaking cryptography. A technical, experience-driven analysis of how this happens in real systems.
A personal reflection on social engineering, human behavior, and identity in the age of AI, drawing from real-world experience and behavioral analysis to explain why understanding people still matters more than understanding machines.
Man-in-the-middle attacks persist not because of weak networks, but because developers trust code paths, certificates, and assumptions that are never properly curated. A technical deep dive into real MITM failure modes.
A personal reflection from years in offensive security on how recovery, community, and honest conversations have become more important than perfect defenses in modern cybersecurity.
Malicious browser extensions silently exfiltrate identity data, sessions, and chats while bypassing traditional security controls. This technical deep dive shows how they work and why recovery plans ignore them.
Let’s get something straight: most “holiday breaches” don’t start during the holidays – we already covered last week.They continue during the holidays. We didn’t exploit a 0day.We didn’t phish anyone on December 29th.We didn’t bruteforce a login. We reused an identity that was already trusted, and that’s the part everyone keeps missing. The myth: “no
Holiday periods create ideal conditions for identity-based attacks: reduced monitoring, delayed response, and persistent access. This PacketHunters analysis explains why attackers prefer holidays and how identity abuse accelerates when vigilance drops.
