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Long-form deep-dives that stay current — each post is revisited as new CVEs, threat-actor activity, and FlagThis stories land, linking directly into our own tracked entities. Sorted by most recently updated. Every update is logged in a revision history at the bottom of the post.

Where the 2026 CVE Increase Is Coming From
Research Updated 2026-08-30 Published 2026-08-30
The CVE count is heading for 95,000 in 2026. Broken down by which organization issues each identifier, most of the rise traces to the industry disclosing more vulnerabilities — in more detail, from more sources, with the first vendor AI programs now finding bugs at scale — rather than to more or worse bugs.
Phantom Squatting: Weaponizing AI Hallucinations for Zero-Recon Supply Chain Attacks
Research Updated 2026-08-29 Published 2026-08-22
How adversaries exploit statistically deterministic package and domain hallucinations across frontier LLMs to poison open-source software ecosystems — mechanics, empirical benchmarks, agentic threat modeling, and defense.
Iran's State AI Playbook: Sovereignty on a Sanctions Budget
Research Updated 2026-08-29 Published 2026-08-16
How Tehran turned open-source LLMs, Chinese hardware, and hijacked Western cloud accounts into a functioning wartime AI program — and what it means for anyone tracking Iranian threat activity.
China's Digital Front in India
Research Updated 2026-08-29 Published 2026-08-16
How China has systematically worked to infiltrate Indian government, defense, and corporate networks -- live campaigns, a leaked contractor's own target lists, and documented account-takeover tradecraft -- and how much of it holds up once every claim is checked against primary sources.

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