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Category: Cybersecurity

Russia-Ukraine Cyber War: Tracking Digital Infrastructure

Cyber operations in the Russia-Ukraine war run on infrastructure — servers, certificates, domains, and compromised devices that leave traces on the public internet. This article explains the tracking methodology researchers use to find and monitor it, with documented cases from the FBI's Cyclops Blink disruption to CERT-UA's infrastructure investigations.

Israel-Iran Cyber War: What Internet Intelligence Shows

The Israel–Iran cyber war runs alongside the 2026 conflict — wiper attacks, exposed industrial controllers, and hacktivist DDoS waves. Here is what internet intelligence reveals about the digital front, and how researchers track it.

Censys, Iran Cyber Attacks and Exposed Infrastructure

U.S. agencies confirmed Iranian-affiliated hackers are exploiting internet-exposed PLCs in water, energy, and government sectors. Censys research measured the attack surface — 5,219 exposed controllers, most in the U.S. — and showed how scan data helps defenders fight back.

Cyber Warfare Research: Using Internet Scan Data (2026)

How threat-intelligence analysts use internet-wide scan data to study cyber warfare: certificate pivoting, infrastructure baselining, reuse tracking across threat reports, and the hard limits of what scan data can prove. Real case studies from Censys research and documented investigations.

CensysInspect Explained: Internet Intelligence Guide

CensysInspect is the identifier Censys uses when scanning the public internet. This beginner's guide explains what the Censys platform does, how internet-wide scanning works, what data it collects, and why security researchers rely on internet intelligence.

Warlock Ransomware Explained: SharePoint Attacks (2026)

WarBrief Live | October 5, 2026 | Cybersecurity A ransomware crew tracked as Warlock has spent the past two months breaking into critical infrastructure through one of the least exotic doors in enterprise IT: unpatched Microsoft SharePoint servers. According to new research from Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team, published October 1, 2026, the suspected China-linked group […]

CensysInspect in Your Logs? What It Means and How to Respond

WarBrief Live | October 5, 2026 | Cyber Intelligence It usually starts with a late-night alert or a curious grep through the access logs: a user agent you have never seen before, hitting your web servers from unfamiliar IP addresses. The string reads Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CensysInspect/1.1; +https://about.censys.io/). Is it an attack? A misconfigured bot? Something […]

Iranian Hackers Target US Water and Energy Grids

WarBrief Live | October 4, 2026 | Cybersecurity Related: the US withdrew all 12 B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford after a foiled suspected Iran-linked terror plot — read the full explainer. Iranian-affiliated hackers are running the broadest cyber campaign against American critical infrastructure in years — and it has quietly widened from water utilities into […]

Ransomware-as-a-Service: How KillSec Worked and Was Taken Down

WarBrief Live | October 3, 2026 | Cybersecurity On September 30, 2026, police in ten countries raided homes, seized servers, and took control of the dark-web leak site of KillSec, a ransomware crew whose alleged administrator is 16 years old. Operation KillSwitch is one of the most revealing ransomware takedowns of the year — and […]