CMMC Penetration Testing Requirements: 2026 Guide
A plain-English guide to penetration testing requirements under CMMC for defense contractors — what assessors expect, what evidence counts, and how the 2026 pause changed the timeline.
A plain-English guide to penetration testing requirements under CMMC for defense contractors — what assessors expect, what evidence counts, and how the 2026 pause changed the timeline.
WarBrief Live | October 12, 2026 | Cyber Warfare On October 7, 2026, one of Japan’s major cloud providers suffered an attack that cybersecurity teams had long warned about but rarely seen at this scale: ransomware hit the IDCF Cloud ransomware target — the East Japan Region 1 cluster of IDC Frontier, a SoftBank subsidiary […]
WarBrief Live | October 11, 2026 | Cybersecurity A Ukrainian drone campaign has done what no cyberattack has managed in more than four years of war: taken three of Russia’s most important data centres offline in four days. Between October 8 and October 11, 2026, strikes attributed to Kyiv hit Yandex facilities in Sasovo, Kaluga […]
WarBrief Live | October 10, 2026 | Cybersecurity On October 8, 2026, AI company Anthropic launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term program putting its most capable Claude models and its own engineers inside the security firms defending power grids, water systems, transportation networks and manufacturing. Alongside it comes a free AI scanner for open-source […]
Gunra is a Conti-derived ransomware-as-a-service operation flagged in the FBI/CISA joint advisory AA26-222A. How it breaks in, who it targets, and how to spot it.
WarBrief Live | October 6, 2026 | Cyber Warfare The Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) left unencrypted personnel files exposed to unauthorized users for roughly nine months, putting the Social Security numbers, birth dates, and military job details of more than 3 million people into unknown hands. The Pentagon discovered the vulnerability in its […]
Adversary infrastructure — the C2 servers, phishing kits, and malware staging behind every attack — can be mapped from a single clue using internet intelligence. This guide shows how researchers do it, with real published cases.
Every cyber attack leaves infrastructure clues on the public internet. This guide explains how investigators pivot from one malicious indicator to an entire attacker network — and why attribution must never rest on a single clue.
You cannot defend what you cannot see. Internet intelligence maps a defense organization's exposed attack surface — and the July 2026 water-sector attacks showed what happens when defenders fall behind.
A practitioner's comparison of Censys vs Shodan for threat hunting teams: scan coverage, data freshness, search languages, API access, hunting-specific features, and verified October 2026 pricing.