New Blog! 🇬🇧 UK Cybercrime Journal: Hargreaves Landsdown Extortion Attempt by Bashe It appears Bashe weaponised HL’s recent, IT outages & glitches (in Sept 2025 and March 2026) to construct a plausible, but false, narrative of a successful hack. 🔗 blog.bushidotoken.net/2026/06/uk-c...

Two of my fav 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 experts when it comes to discussing cyber warfare, Philip Ingram and Ian Thornton-Trump, released an interview reviewing in detail the threat landscape of 🇷🇺 Russian cyber operations in the context of the ongoing war in 🇺🇦 Ukraine. 🔗 youtu.be/p1vl5t4fVWA

New Blog! 🇬🇧 UK Cybercrime Journal: Sustained DragonForce Campaign Throughout May 2026, the DragonForce RaaS operation claimed seven UK-based companies as its victims by posting them on their Tor data leak site. 🔗 blog.bushidotoken.net/2026/06/uk-c...

New Blog! Ransomware Tool Matrix Project Updates: Three Groups To Track 🔒🛠️ 🔗 blog.bushidotoken.net/2026/06/rans...

I recently experimented with turning one of my blogs from back in 2020 (the pre-AI era!) into an AI-generated video via @NotebookLM and was surprised with the result. 🎥 Video: The Law of the Jungle 🐍 🦁 🦈 🦀 youtu.be/gb1aOjXly7E Original blog: blog.bushidotoken.net/2020/05/cybe...

New 🇬🇧 UK Cybercrime Journal Entry: Arup Group Breached by FulcrumSec What do AWS DCs, Disneyland, Wembley Football Stadium, HS2 and HS1 Channel Tunnel Rail Link network, and the Eden Project all have in common? They were engineered by Arup Group 👀 blog.bushidotoken.net/2026/06/uk-c...

New 🇬🇧 UK Cybercrime Journal Entry: British Universities Struck by ShinyHunters Before Exam Season blog.bushidotoken.net/2026/05/uk-c...

New 🇬🇧 UK Cybercrime Journal Entry: £102 million Lost to Scams in 2025 blog.bushidotoken.net/2026/05/uk-c...

📣 I have been wanting to write more regularly for my site blog.bushidotoken.net and have made a new series: The UK Cybercrime Journal. These are short UK cybercrime incident reports with a BLUF, Analyst Comment, and Defensive Takeaways. Starting here: blog.bushidotoken.net/2026/05/uk-c...

New Blog! Stranger Strings: Yurei Ransomware Operator Toolkit Exposed Through my research with Team Cymru’s data, we have discovered another ransomware operator’s server with Stranger Things-themed tools, check it out👇 www.team-cymru.com/post/yurei-d...

New Blog! The Beast Returns: Analysis of a Beast Ransomware Server 👹 In March 2026, Team Cymru detected a Beast operator’s server that enabled us to understand the flow of their attacks from start, to middle, to the end, including ransomware binaries. www.team-cymru.com/post/beast-r...

My latest article for Feedly is about how CTI and Threat Hunting can actually fuse into a single, intelligence-driven workflow instead of operating in silos. If you’re trying to build a more proactive security program, I think you’ll find it useful. 👉 Read it here: feedly.com/ti-essential...

𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 🎧 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 We sat down with Rebecca Taylor from Sophos and @bushidotoken.net from @teamcymrus2.bsky.social to discuss 2025’s highs and lows in cyber and make educated guesses on what to look for in 2026. feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundc...

New Blog 👀 This blog discusses the topic of cybercrime counterintelligence to highlight the growing threat toward the cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and law enforcement (LE) communities ⚠️ 🔗 www.sans.org/blog/for589-...

Spotted a rather Team Cymru looking fountain here in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 this week! 📸

New Blog! Lessons from the BlackBasta Ransomware Attack on Capita When a company that manages data for millions of UK citizens falls victim to ransomware, the whole industry should pay attention to it. 📝 blog.bushidotoken.net/2025/10/less...

New Blog! 👀 In this research, I take a look at the Qilin RaaS in-depth, which has emerged as one of the leading and most innovative ransomware gangs following the takedown of LockBit, the exit scam by ALPHV/BlackCat, and the shutdown of RansomHub. 🔗 www.sans.org/blog/evoluti...

New Blog! 👀 After the last few large breaches, I discuss several cases in which the customers of major SaaS providers, such as Salesloft, Salesforce, and Snowflake have been extorted by adversaries from the English-speaking #cybercrime communities. 🔗 www.sans.org/blog/hunting...

Pleased to share I’ll be speaking at Adversary Village in DEFCON33!

Pleased to share my first official Team Cymru blog that follows on from my webinar last month 🙌 “Uncovering DPRK Remote Workers: Detecting Hidden Threats Through Internet Telemetry” 🇰🇵 🔍 www.team-cymru.com/post/uncover...

⚠️ IntelBroker was arrested in France 🇫🇷 in February 2025, and the US 🇺🇸 is seeking his extradition. How did Law Enforcement Deanonymize IntelBroker? 🔍 TL;DR: He messed up on the Bitcoin opsec after an undercover officer made a controlled buy 💰 www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/me...

#opendir 🇨🇳 1.94.184[.]17:8000 Huawei Cloud AS55990 .jsp Godzilla Web Shell 6d403c3fc246d6d493a6f4acc18c1c292f710db6ad9c3ea2ff065595c5ad3c5b /poc.xml contents wqtzskzmtp[.]zaza[.]eu[.]org 101.33.34[.]170 Tencent AS132203

@bushidotoken.net explored a Meta-themed credential phishing campaign (not "Reality"). From those indicators, I pulled the "Threads" & this is far from an isolated campaign. Found great pivots in registration "Meta"data. (I'll see myself out.) All 762 indicators 💥⤵️ www.validin.com/blog/not_rea...

New Blog! Tracking Adversaries: EvilCorp, the RansomHub affiliate blog.bushidotoken.net/2025/04/trac...

UNC3886 is a very interesting China-nexus APT that I encourage more to CTI analysts to investigate. They are one of the more skilled ones, like Salt or Volt. To help make life easier for some, I’ve manually mapped their TTPs to ATT&CK: github.com/BushidoUK/MI...

Interesting phishing TTP observed in the wild last year: 1. Send phish to an <org_name>@service-now[.]com inbox 2. A ticket is then auto-created in the platform using servicenow_notification@<org_domain> 3. A link is put in the body of the SNOW ticket that can lead to malware or fake login page

@bushidotoken.net has dug up some IOCs for the FBI's recent warning about online file format converters being used to distribute malware Link: x.com/BushidoToken...

New Blog! BlackBasta Leaks: Lessons from the Ascension Health attack 🏥🔒 — This is a step-by-step extraction and translation of the leaked conversation between the BlackBasta members during the Ascension Health attack 🔗 blog.bushidotoken.net/2025/02/blac...

New Blog! Investigating Anonymous VPS services used by Ransomware Gangs h/t to @drb_ra for lending me some of their C2 data! Made my life a lot easier 🫡 🔗 blog.bushidotoken.net/2025/02/inve... Podcast version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX25...

Glad to see LE and Gov keeping up the pressure on ransomware gangs in early 2025 ZSERVERS BPH sanctioned by the UK for enabling LockBit attacks www.gov.uk/government/n... Phobos & 8BASE arrests by international partners www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

New Blog! Tracking Adversaries: Ghostwriter APT Infrastructure 🇧🇾 blog.bushidotoken.net/2025/01/trac...

New Blog! Analysis of Counter-Ransomware Activities in 2024 blog.bushidotoken.net/2025/01/anal...

Bournemouth2600 Challenge Coins arrived 😎

Ransomware Zero Days 2024

Very interesting screenshot in the latest FBI arrest of the main LockBit developer “Rostislav Panev” Source code for LockBit builders for #Proxmox and #Nutanix, which have not been observed in the wild AFAIK 🧐 www.justice.gov/opa/media/13...

Signal is just another area of operations for cybercrime and organised crime like any other. And CTI vendors would not be doing their job if they were not infiltrating these communities and group chats. It’s not Signal’s fault. It’s just a fact of the internet. TL;DR — No lol, Signal wasn’t hacked

Oh my gosh, @bushidotoken.net just walked on stage for his #CyberThreat24 presentation on cyber criminal OPSEC fails to John Cena's entrance music. 😁🫡

New Blog! Top 10 Cyber Threats of 2024 Overall, this year was full of mega breaches, government hacking campaigns, massive ransomware attacks, disruptive ICS attacks, and global technology failures blog.bushidotoken.net/2024/12/top-... #cybercrime #infosec #malware #cybersecurity

Usually I take a notebook to conferences and use it to write notes instead of using my phone so the speaker doesn’t think I am bored and playing on my phone instead lol 📝

From seeing my the Spotify wrapped of my friends, if you were to create a Venn diagram of drum and bass fans & infosec workers, it would be a circle

Created a new repo to publish my MITRE ATT&CK mappings for when reports don't have a section on TTPs, hopefully useful for other defenders working on detection engineering & threat hunting. github.com/BushidoUK/MI...

Create a YARA rule and a Sigma rule recently for a USB malware I’ve been researching called UniversalMiner, first reported on by CERT-AZ. Hope defenders elsewhere find them helpful :) YARA github.com/BushidoUK/YA... Sigma github.com/BushidoUK/Si...

Is anyone using LLMs where you can use a prompt to create any type of virtual infrastructure, run a malware sample, generate event logs, and exit? I am wondering if one of the Malware Sandbox companies is working on something like that. Free idea right there.

Pantheon on Netflix is a good animated series, lots of fun cyber, AI, and neuroscience stuff. And who doesn’t love some Ghost in the Shell references too.

Ever wondered about how many women are cybercriminals and what sort of roles they play in the underground? Check out this new SANS #FOR589 Blog below👇 www.sans.org/blog/women-i...

Looking for more people to follow on BlueSky? Find the @curatedintel.bsky.social folks here: go.bsky.app/Kfp62Uh

Good news — The outline for my BSides London Track 1 Talk is available here: cfp.securitybsides.org.uk/bsides-londo... See you all there 👋 🤘