The Quiet War for the Future of AI: How China-Aligned Spies Are Hunting U.S. Policy Experts

According to a fresh intelligence report from Proofpoint, TA419 has been systematically hunting down artificial intelligence policy experts, researchers, and legal minds across U.S. think tanks, universities, and major institutions. Their goal? Extracting deep intelligence on how the West plans to govern, regulate, and secure the next generation of AI. The Bait: Posing as Industry […]
Two 9.5-Rated “Digital Front Doors”: Why Attackers Are Hammering Citrix NetScaler and Why You Need to Move Now

What happens when the guardian of the network, the security appliance itself gets broken into? On September 27, 2026, an alert went out that should put every cybersecurity professional on high alert. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urgently added two vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway (CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772) to its […]
The Nightmare Is Over: World’s Longest-Running DDoS Service Finally Shut Down

Have you ever wondered how easy it is to launch an attack that can take down an entire website? The answer is unsettling: all it took was a visit to the right website and a payment in cryptocurrency. NightmareStresser was the perfect example: a digital weapons shop, open to anyone, anonymous, and devastatingly effective. A […]
CVE-2026-69836

The vulnerability stems from an unsafe deserialization of untrusted data, a class of flaw where an application reconstructs objects from attacker-supplied input without first validating it. Because Entra ID is a cloud-hosted service, Microsoft was able to remediate the vulnerability on the server-side, meaning customers did not need to install any patches. The disclosure itself […]
The Problem of 35,800 Vulnerabilities: Why Your CVSS Score is Lying to You

In the first half of 2026, nearly 36,000 CVEs were published. That’s a 49% jump from the year before. But here’s the twist that should change your entire security strategy: Fewer than 500 were actually exploited in the wild.We have a massive vulnerability problem, but a much smaller action problem. The traditional model of treating […]
CQURE Hacks #82: Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access Bypass via User-Agent Policy Gap

Conditional Access decides which device platforms it trusts based on the User-Agent, a value the client controls. Windows, Linux, iPhone all get blocked. So, we try something the policy never accounted for: Xbox Series X. The result is a Microsoft Graph access token, issued without ever triggering MFA. With that token we go straight to […]