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The Yandex Off-Switch That Wasn't

Ukraine wrecked Russia's best data centers and idled all three AI supercomputers. Then the internet decided that had also killed the bots. It hadn't and the way we know is

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Things I build & break

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17 Oct 2026 f4n6
Email bombing used to bury fraud alerts and distract security teams from account takeovers

1. Executive summary Email bombing, also called form bombing, list bombing or subscription bombing, floods a target mailbox with hundreds or thousands of automated

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17 Oct 2026 f4n6
ConnectWise SkyKick credentials abused for mass M365 tenant access and persistence

1. Executive summary A credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) was used on 2026-10-15 to authenticate as the application itself

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17 Oct 2026 f4n6
MALFEX campaign uses malicious imgdecode npm package to hide shellcode loader in Windows addons

1. Executive summary A malicious npm package named imgdecode, uploaded on 30 September 2026 by the account malfexteste8, is part of the MALFEX software

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17 Oct 2026 f4n6
Candiru uses Discover-Tech ad platform for zero-click spyware delivery

1. Executive summary Citizen Lab has documented a campaign, AdFection, in which ads brokered by Israeli adtech firm Discover-Tech were used to fingerprint

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17 Oct 2026 f4n6
ConnectWise credential compromise grants access to 173 Microsoft 365 tenants

1. Executive summary A credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) was used to authenticate into customer Microsoft 365 tenants and obtain Microsoft

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