Interesting links of the week:

Strategy:

* https://x-c3ll.github.io/posts/Rant-Red-Team/ - @XC3LL talks red teaming trends
* https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/county-pays-600000-to-pentesters-it-arrested-for-assessing-courthouse-security/ - finally settled, the poor testers with a faulty get out of jail card

Threats:

* https://stratcomcoe.org/pdfjs/?file=/publications/download/Social-Media-Manipulation-FINAL-FILE.pdf?zoom=page-fit - STRATCOM talks influence operations
* https://github.com/blackorbird/APT_REPORT/blob/master/summary%2F2026%2F2025%20Global%20APT%20Threat%20Research%20Report.pdf - threat research report from Qihoo 360
* https://www.greynoise.io/blog/unmasking-cisas-hidden-kev-ransomware-updates - @greynoise discuss hidden signals in KEV
* https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-chrysalis-backdoor-dive-into-lotus-blossoms-toolkit/ - @rapid7's excellent analysis of notepad++
* https://community.plone.org/t/plone-security-advisory-20260116-attempted-code-insertions-into-github-pull-requests/22770/7 - another supply chain woopsie
* https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/01/incident-report-energy-sector-2025/ - reporting on the .pl power problems
* https://zenodo.org/records/18444900 - content based risk analysis of Moltbook (not for the faint-hearted)

Detection:

* https://zeek.org/2026/01/how-to-use-ja4-network-fingerprints-in-zeek/ - @zeek discuss how to leverage JA4
* https://blog.jmhill.me/deploying-an-opencti-osint-stack-for-cybersecurity-research/ - @jmhill describes how to deploy OpenCTI
* https://www.huntress.com/blog/ldap-active-directory-detection-part-four - the latest of @huntress's excellent blogs on what an attack on LDAP can actually look like
* https://leanpub.com/suri_operator - @da_667's survivors guide to @suricata

Bugs:

* https://labs.watchtowr.com/someone-knows-bash-far-too-well-and-we-love-it-ivanti-epmm-pre-auth-rces-cve-2026-1281-cve-2026-1340/ - @index continue their streak of popping fun bugs in the wild
* https://zeroleaks.ai/reports/openclaw-analysis.pdf - nice technical write up on OpenClaw

Exploitation:

* https://scriptjunkie.us/2026/01/tracking-signal-identifiers/ - leaking Signal IDs from @sj
* https://splintersfury.github.io/mal_blog/post/netfilter_driver/ - reversing Netfilter
* https://alfiecg.uk/2024/09/24/Kernel-exploit.html - Alfie pops iOS
* https://secure.dev/securing_ggml_rpc.html - attack and defend on GGML

Hard hacks:

* https://hexkyz.blogspot.com/2021/11/je-ne-sais-quoi-falcons-over-horizon.html - an oldie on popping NVIDIA's Falcon

Hardening:

* https://itsfoss.com/news/amutable-linux-security/ - @pid_eins triggers systemctl restart
* https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/EW8M3R-island/ - how to get land locked

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