Michael Raypold, VP of Engineering
1. Tell me about the Flashpoint Firehose. What needs and challenges was it built to address? Michael Raypold: The Flashpoint Firehose is a data-as-a-service solution…
Category: VendorResearch
Hamas and PIJ on Telegram
Telegram: A crucial modern warfare channel Telegram, with its 700 million-plus-strong user base, has evolved into a pivotal communication hub for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic…
The 20 Coolest Web, Email And Application Security Companies Of 2026: The Security 100
From AI-powered vendors protecting email inboxes and web browsers, to providers of modern code security, here’s a look at 20 key companies in web, email…
CVE-2026-1731: Finding a critical RCE in an age of AI-driven vulnerability research
Introduction CVE-2026-1731 is an operating system (OS) command injection vulnerability impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) software. These products are critical…
New threat actor, UAT-9921, leverages VoidLink framework in campaigns
Cisco Talos recently discovered a new threat actor, UAT-9921, leveraging VoidLink in campaigns. Their activities may go as far back as 2019, even without VoidLink.…
Fuzzing a single thread to uncover vulnerabilities
A Cisco Talos researcher worked around the limitations of hardware-level Code Read-out Protection (RDP) on the Socomec DIRIS M-70 gateway by pivoting from physical debugging to a…
Beyond Hamas: Militant and Terrorist Groups Involved in the October 7 Attack on Israel
October 7: Hamas attacks Israel In the midst of the Israel-Hamas War, which erupted with a surprising and devastating attack on October 7, 2023 that…
Threat modeling AI applications | Microsoft Security Blog
Proactively identifying, assessing, and addressing risk in AI systems We cannot anticipate every misuse or emergent behavior in AI systems. We can, however, identify what…
Malicious AI Assistant Extensions Harvest LLM Chat Histories
Microsoft Defender has been investigating reports of malicious Chromium‑based browser extensions that impersonate legitimate AI assistant tools to harvest LLM chat histories and browsing data.…
New Dohdoor malware campaign targets education and health care
Cisco Talos discovered an ongoing malicious campaign since at least as early as December 2025 by a threat actor we track as “UAT-10027,” delivering a previously undisclosed backdoor dubbed “Dohdoor.” Dohdoor utilizes the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)…
Global coalition dismantles Tycoon 2FA phishing kit
Tycoon 2FA, a major phishing kit and platform that allowed low-skilled cybercriminals to bypass multifactor authentication and conduct large-scale adversary-in-the-middle attacks, was dismantled Wednesday by…
VoidLink: Evidence That the Era of Advanced AI-Generated Malware Has Begun
Key Points Check Point Research (CPR) believes a new era of AI-generated malware has begun. VoidLink stands as the first evidently documented case of this…