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    What Does a Cyber Threat Intel Analyst Do? A Look at the Intelligence Professionals Who Bring Threat Intel Programs to Life
    An overview of day-to-day for a threat intelligence analyst—the human force behind an effective threat, ...
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    Raid Forums Is Down. Who’s Behind Its Apparent Seizure? [Updated]
    Updated April 12: Today, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a press release confirming their seizure of ...
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    COURT DOC: U.S. Leads Seizure of One of the World’s Largest Hacker Forums and Arrests Administrator
    The U.S. Department of Justice announced the seizure of the RaidForums website, a popular marketplace for ...
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    Why the Full Vulnerability Intelligence Picture Depends on Data Beyond CVE and NVD
    The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database has become the unofficial “official” source for ...
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    ISIS Attacks, March 2022: Key Trends, Statistics, and Geographic Analysis
    The following research is based on information gathered by Flashpoint analysts and data collections. For ...
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    Court Documents
    COURT DOC: Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)
    The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation, conducted in March 2022, to disrupt a ...
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    German Authorities Seize Hydra’s Servers, Close the Largest Russian-Language Darknet Market [Updated]
    German authorities announced today that they had taken down the Germany-based servers of Hydra Market—the ...
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    Court Documents
    COURT DOC: Justice Department Investigation Leads to Shutdown of Largest Online Darknet Marketplace
    The U.S. Department of Justice announced...the seizure of Hydra Market (Hydra), the world’s largest and ...
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    Top 10 Ransomware Trends: Board Responsibilities, Tracking Ransomware, and Mitigating Risk
    From summer 2021 to early 2022, the ransomware ecosystem changed from high-profile, high-impact, big-game hunting ...
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    What Is SpringShell? What We Know About the SpringShell Vulnerability [Updated]
    Flashpoint and Risk Based Security have analyzed a new remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability looming in the ...
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    Cyber Threat Intelligence
    Breach Forums Is Marketing Itself as a Raid Forums Successor
    On March 16, just about three weeks after Raid Forums was seized, a threat actor named “pompompurin,” ...
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    The Promise of Open Source Code and the Paradox of ‘ProtestWare’
    The Open Source Software (OSS) community has been split in two after an OSS author repurposed his own library to ...
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