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Threat intelligence, defensive security, career guidance and best practices from the Hack The Planet team.
Google says a Chinese device maker built a backdoor into cheap Android TV boxes at the factory and rented them to criminals. More than 1.3 million devices, 170+ countries — and the backdoor is still inside the boxes. What happened, and what to do if you own one.
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Attackers are breaking into hotel and conference Wi-Fi gateways, changing the DNS, and sending guests to fake Microsoft 365 login pages — or abusing Microsoft's own device-code login to walk into corporate accounts. Microsoft blames a Russian state-linked group. How it works, and how to stay safe on the road.
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On-chain trackers link up to $5.8 billion in cryptocurrency moving out of Binance hot wallets on October 29, 2026. Tether and Circle froze $2.54 billion. What is confirmed, what is still rumor, and what to watch next.
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More than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees — names, phone numbers, email addresses and field office assignments — published by the leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets. The data exposes agents assigned to special operations, surveillance and undercover work: the third major US government leak in a month.
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Attackers broke into Microsoft 365 accounts at 79 organizations without ever needing a password — stealing post-MFA session tokens, replaying them within minutes, registering rogue devices and hiding victims' mail with secret inbox rules. What happened, and what to check right now.
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Start bug bounty hunting in 2026: the skills to learn first, the essential tools, how to choose your first programme, and the beginner bugs that actually get paid.
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Learn Nmap from zero in this beginner tutorial: host discovery, port scanning, service and OS detection and NSE scripts — plus the legal rules and the defender's view.
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Password cracking explained: stolen hashes, GPU brute force, dictionary rules and credential stuffing — and the simple defences that make your passwords uncrackable.
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Two critical PHP vulnerabilities — CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both CVSS 9.2 — allow unauthenticated remote code execution on millions of servers. Governments took national services offline, Cloudflare saw early attacks, and updating WordPress does not fix it. What happened, who is exposed, and what to do right now.
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AI writes phishing emails, hunts vulnerabilities, and clones voices — and it also triages alerts, hunts threats, and patches code. The same technology fights on both sides. Here is what that means for security, and for your career.
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CVE-2021-44228. CVE-2023-23397. These codes appear in every breach headline — but what exactly is a CVE, who assigns it, and how do professionals use the system to decide what to patch first? A complete beginner-friendly guide.
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Motivation gets you started for a week. Discipline sermons make you feel guilty for a month. What actually carries people into cybersecurity careers is embarrassingly simple: a schedule, a system, and a roadmap they can see. Here is all three.
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Altenen is a clearweb hub for carding and payment-fraud discussion. For defenders, its open structure is a gift: fraud TTPs surface here before they hit your checkout page.
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Dark Forums trades in stealer logs, combolists, and database dumps. Monitored responsibly, it gives defenders early warning that corporate credentials are circulating.
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Dread is the darknet's Reddit: market governance, OpSec debates, and takedown post-mortems. For analysts, it is a masterclass in how adversaries think about risk.
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Exploit.IN is where advanced vulnerability research surfaces first. Defenders who track its themes can prioritize patching before exploits go mainstream.
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XSS.is hosts elite exploit and malware research behind strict vetting. Its public footprint still reveals which techniques defenders must prepare for next.
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CryptBB vets members with technical challenges behind Tor. Understanding gated collectives helps defenders model the patient, skilled end of the threat spectrum.
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BHF commercializes stealer logs and automated credential checking. Each listing is a reminder: identity is the perimeter, and it is under constant automated assault.
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Cracked.ax trades in automated account checkers and stuffing configs. Studying this tooling tells defenders exactly what their login pages must withstand.
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Zero-day vulnerabilities capture headlines and command million-dollar bounties. But what really happens behind the scenes between initial discovery, weaponization, and vendor patches?
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Gone are the days when ransomware merely locked desktop files with simple AES. Modern Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) syndicates now operate like multinational cartels.
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Modern phishing is not a Nigerian prince email with broken grammar. Today's campaigns utilize reverse proxies, AI voice impersonation, and real-time MFA interception.
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Passwords have plagued our digital security for over 50 years. Passkeys, built on the FIDO Alliance standard, promise to eliminate credential stuffing forever.
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With over 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity vacancies worldwide, how do you navigate the noise, choose the right certifications, and land your first junior role?
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Enterprises rarely stay on a single cloud. But managing IAM policies, networking rules, and compliance across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud creates dangerous blind spots.
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What really happens when a high-severity alert flashes on the SOC dashboard? Walk through an 8-hour shift fighting real adversary intrusions.
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Modern single-page applications and mobile apps run on APIs. Understand the most rampant API vulnerabilities including BOLA, Broken Object Property Level Auth, and Unrestricted Resource Consumption.
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Reverse engineering is the superpower of cybersecurity. Learn how compilers transform high-level C code into assembly, and how to decompile mysterious binaries with NSA's Ghidra.
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Attackers are weaponizing AI for automated reconnaissance and evasion. Here is how modern blue teams use unsupervised learning to fight back.
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