Topic

Initial access techniques

The methods intruders use to gain their first foothold in an organisation's network, and the telemetry security vendors publish about how often each one appears.

Current clusters

security1 publisher

One Polygon smart contract rotated ClickFix lure hosts three times in a single day

CTM360 tracked more than 17,000 compromised URLs serving a fake Cloudflare check whose next hostname arrives from an on-chain lookup. Microsoft put 47 percent of its 2025 initial-access cases down to the technique.

Publishers:thehackernews.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption74
Hype gap+18
Incentives82
Confidence50