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The Flashpoint Team represents a collection of experts across teams at Flashpoint, including key executives, cyber and physical security intel analysts, product developers, and marketers.

Cyber Threat Intelligence
The AI Risk Landscape: How ChatGPT Is Shaping the Way Threat Actors Work
Flashpoint assesses that ChatGPT will lower the barrier to entry for basic hacking tasks, such as scanning open ...
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Court documents
COURT DOC: US Federal Agents Arrest Alleged Administrator of Breach Forums “pompompurin”
On March 17, 2023, US federal agents arrested a New York individual for computer crimes associated with their ...
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Court documents
COURT DOC: Two Men Charged for Breaching Federal Law Enforcement Database and Posing as Police Officers to Defraud Social Media Companies
A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Sagar Steven Singh and Nicholas ...
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Court documents
COURT DOC: Justice Department Investigation Leads to Takedown of Darknet Cryptocurrency Mixer that Processed Over $3 Billion of Unlawful Transactions
The Justice Department announced today a coordinated international takedown of ChipMixer, a darknet ...
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Cyber Threat Intelligence
Protecting Your Organization’s Digital Identity: A Guide to Managed Attribution
Managed attribution has become a powerful technique for organizations to gather intelligence and protect ...
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Cyber Threat Intelligence
‘Black Skills’ Is Killnet’s Attempt to Form a ‘Private Military Hacking Company’
A clear riff on the growing presence of private military companies in Russia (primarily the Wagner Group), ...
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Vulnerability Management
Recent CISA KEV Additions Include Silent Fixes and Unpatched Vulnerabilities
Flashpoint has observed two major discrepancies with CVE-2022-35914 and CVE-2022-33891. Security teams need to be ...
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Court documents
COURT DOC: Federal Authorities Seize Internet Domain Selling Malware Used to Illegally Control and Steal Data from Victims’ Computers
As part of an international law enforcement effort, federal authorities in Los Angeles this week seized an ...
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Vulnerability Management
Bitwarden: The Curious (Use-)Case of Password Pilfering
While evaluating the behavior of Bitwarden, a popular password manager browser extension, Flashpoint’s ...
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Cyber Threat Intelligence
Private Malware for Sale: A Closer Look at AresLoader
In December 2022, a private loader named AresLoader was advertised for sale on the top-tier Russian-language ...
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Cyber Threat Intelligence
Card Shop Threat Landscape: BidenCash Dumps 2.1M Stolen Credit Cards
What we know about the most recent BidenCash dump, and what it means in the context of the greater card shop ...
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Cyber Threat Intelligence
Why Natural Language Processing Is Crucial for Open-Source Intelligence Analysts
As the volume of data continues to grow, its important to have tools that can help derive meaningful insights ...
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