A seller using the name TheHatman is offering employee directory exports from nine named enterprises. Hudson Rock ties the theft to infostealer credentials, not a compromise of the provider.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 25%
- Operator
- Operator 61%
- Investor
- Investor 14%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives50
- Confidence60
Hudson Rock and ADAMnetworks link the ads to an operation they call PasteSwitch, which hands Windows and macOS visitors different paste-this-command lures and swaps payloads on the backend depending on who arrives.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 29%
- Operator
- Operator 65%
- Investor
- Investor 6%
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives50
- Confidence72
Revolut answered fraudulent information requests sent from a real government email account for months. A group calling itself iamnotavillain now wants about $3 million in Monero for the roughly 680 customer files.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
Blackpoint says a fake Spotify MSI, launched through msiexec.exe, ends with a Node.js agent that reads its live C2 address off a Polygon contract. The same implant has also shipped as Zoom and Teams.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence66
A hacker used a government employee's infostealer-compromised mailbox to send fraudulent requests to Revolut's Lithuanian subsidiary for about five months, and roughly 680 customers' passports and financial data went out.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
The keys work because they are keys. A standard sk_live carries refunds and sometimes payouts. The fix that matters today is rotation. The fix that lasts is a document root that refuses to serve dotfiles.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption31
- Hype gap+9
- Incentives44
- Confidence52
Anthropic, Sysdig, Unit 42 and GitGuardian describe the same shape of failure, which puts the interesting number on your side of the fence: how long an issued token keeps working after it leaves your control.
Reality
- Evidence27
- Adoption44
- Hype gap+37
- Incentives71
- Confidence57
Hudson Rock's analysis of the exfiltration archive ties 118,829 CI runner dumps to 2,488 organizations. The dumps carrying no identifying metadata are the harder half.
Publishers:blog.gitguardian.com
Reality
- Evidence56
- Adoption71
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives79
- Confidence54